The population of the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) as of August 1, 2015 was 1,722,006 based on the 2015 Census of Population (POPCEN 2015).

The population of Region II (Cagayan Valley) as of August 1, 2015 was 3,451,410 based on the 2015 Census of Population (POPCEN 2015).

The population of the National Capital Region (NCR) as of August 1, 2015 was 12,877,253 based on the 2015 Census of Population (POPCEN 2015).

The total imported goods by the country for the month of March 2016 amounted to $6.358 billion, an increase of 11.7 percent from $5.691 billion recorded during the same period a year ago.

The population of the Philippines as of August 1, 2015 was 100,981,437, based on the 2015 Census of Population (POPCEN 2015).

The number of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) who worked abroad at anytime during the period April to September 2015 was estimated at 2.4 million. Overseas Contract Workers (OCWs) or those with existing work contract comprised 97.1 percent of the…

The year-on-year change of General Wholesale Price Index (GWPI) at the national level continued to drop as it registered -0.5 percent in March 2016.

The year-on-year change of the Construction Materials Retail Price Index (CMRPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) picked up by 1.4 percent in April 2016.

On an annual basis, the Construction Materials Wholesale Price Index (CMWPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) went up to 0.7 percent in April 2016.

Agriculture posted a 4.53 percent drop in production in the first three (3) months of 2016. The output increments in the livestock and poultry subsectors were not enough to offset the downturn in the performance of the crops and fisheries subsectors…