The total number of manufacturing establishments with total employment (TE) of 20 and over was estimated at 4,643 according to the preliminary results of the 2010 Annual Survey of Philippine Business and Industry.

Total external trade in goods for June 2012 reached $9.415 billion, representing a 9.0 percent increase from $8.639 billion recorded during the same month in 2011. This was due to the 13.3 percent increase in total imports from $4.504 billion in…

The year-on-year growth in the General Wholesale Price Index (GWPI) at the national level further eased to 0.1 percent in June from 0.3 percent in May.

June 11, 1980 An act providing for the taking of an integrated census every ten years beginning in the year nineteen hundred and eighty, and for other purposes.

March 20, 1974 Reconstituting the Bureau of the Census and Statistics of the Department of Trade as a new agency under the administrative supervision of the National Economic and Development Authority to be known as the National Census and…

The annual increase in the Construction Materials Wholesale Price Index (CMWPI) in NCR improved to 2.2 percent in July from 2.4 percent in June as the annual rate in fuels and lubricants index further dropped by -2.1 percent from -1.9 percent.

Value of Production Index (VaPI) for total manufacturing industry recorded a year-on-year growth of 2.4 percent in June 2012, improving from negative 2.9 percent posted the previous month, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly…

The year-on-year growth of the retail price index of selected construction materials in the National Capital Region (NCR) increased to 5.0 percent in July from 4.7 percent in June. The annual change in masonry materials and plumbing materials…

Intellectual Property Products (IPP) includes expenditures on research and development, mineral exploration, computer software and databases, and entertainment, literary or artistic originals.

Total Gross Revenue Index of industries accelerated by 11.3 percent in the first quarter of 2012 from the previous year’s growth of 7.4 percent. Real Estate continued to post the fastest growth at 28.1 percent, followed by Trade and Finance which…