On a monthly basis the growth rate of the retail price index of selected construction materials in NCR inched up to 0.5 percent in April from 0.4 percent in March.

The monthly change of the General Retail Price Index (GRPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) decelerated to -0.1 percent in March from 0.5 percent in February. This was attributed to the -1.2 percent and -0.1 percent declines in the heavily…

Total foreign direct investments (FDI)a approved in the first quarter of 2011 by the four major investment promotion agencies (IPA) amounted to PhP 22.0 billion, 52.8 percent lower than the FDIb approved in Q1 2010. Except for the Board of…

Value of Production Index (VaPI) for total manufacturing recorded a slower growth of 9.7 percent in March 2011, according to the preliminary results of the Monthly Integrated Survey of Selected Industries (MISSI). This was accounted mainly by the…

Total external trade in goods for the first quarter of 2011 (January to March) reached $27.805 billion, a 15.4 percent increment from $24.104 billion registered during the same period in 2010. Total imports posted a 22.0 percent annual increase to $…

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The Functional Literacy, Education and Mass Media Survey (FLEMMS) shows the educational attainment of the population aged six years old and over. The survey results in 2003 and 2008 revealed an increasing trend in the proportion of population aged…

Compared with March, the month-on-month growth of the Construction Materials Wholesale Price Index (CMWPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) eased to 1.9 percent in April from 2.4 percent.

Export earnings in March 2011 amounted to $4.350 billion, a 4.0 percent increment from $4.182 billion recorded in March of 2010. Similarly, month-on-month, it increased by 12.6 percent from $3.865 billion posted in February 2011. Meanwhile,…

The Producer Price Index (PPI, 2000=100) for the manufacturing industry fell 0.9 percent in March 2011, according to the preliminary results of the monthly Producer Price Survey. This was largely attributed to the double-digit price reduction posted…