The 2012 Census of Agriculture (CA) reported 5.56 million farms/holdings1 covering 7.19 million hectares, which translated to an average area of 1.29 hectares per farm/holding. The number of farms/holdings increased from 1980 to 2012 by 62.6 percent…

Solid Responsive World-Class Authority on Quality Statistics and Civil Registration. This is the vision of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) which was launched during its National Planning Workshop on 10-11 December 2015 at the Heritage…

Value of Production Index (VaPI) for total manufacturing went down as it posted a decrement of 9.2 percent in October 2015 compared with a year ago growth of 8.0 percent, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly Integrated Survey of…

Bert Joseph F. Prestoza from Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) emerged as victor of the 24th Philippine Statistics Quiz (PSQ) National Finals which was held at GT Toyota Asian Center Auditorium at the University of the Philippines-Diliman on…

The    Philippines’    export   sales  totaled $4.590 billion in October 2015, a 10.8 percent decrease from $5.148 billion recorded value in October of 2014.  The negative growth was mainly brought about by the decreases in seven major…

The employment rate in October 2015 was estimated at 94.4 percent. Three regions, namely, Ilocos Region (91.5%), CALABARZON (92.2%), and National Capital Region (NCR) (92.8%) had employment rates lower than the national figure (Table 4). The labor…

Based on the final results of the 2011 SOC, the estimated number of children aged 5 to 17 years who worked for at least one hour during the past week in October 2011 was 3.3 million. They accounted for 12.4 percent of the estimated 26.6 million…

The country’s annual headline inflation jumped to 1.1 percent in November. It was posted at 0.4 percent last month and 3.7 percent in November 2014. The growth was primarily due to the higher annual rate in the heavily-weighted food and non-…

Total number of constructions generated from approved building permits in the third quarter of 2015 was recorded at 30,126. This represents a slight increase of 1.7 percent compared with the 29,616 constructions recorded during the same quarter in…

At the national level, the seasonally adjusted CPI for clothing and footwear went up by 0.4 percent in November from 0.3 percent in October; and recreation and culture and education, 0.3 percent from their corresponding last month’s…