The month-on-month growth rate of the General Retail Price Index (GRPI) in the National Capital Region (NCR) moved up at a slower pace of 0.3 percent in December from 0.9 percent in November. The monthly price movement in the heavily weighted food…

Total foreign direct investments (FDI) approved in the fourth quarter of 2010 by the four major investment promotion agencies (IPA), namely: Board of Investments (BOI), Clark Development Corporation (CDC), Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA…

The retail price index of selected construction materials in NCR went up to 0.4 percent in January from 0.3 percent in December.

The annual rate of price adjustment based on the General Wholesale Price Index (GWPI) at the national level accelerated to 4.0 percent in November from 3.4 percent in October.

Total Gross Revenue Index of industries grew by in the third quarter of 2010 compared to the meager growth in the same quarter last year. Finance registered the highest growth at as banks, non-banks and insurance performed vigorously during the…

The 2009 Household Survey on Domestic Visitors (HSDV) conducted by the National Statistics Office and Department of Tourism showed a total of 22.8 million Filipinos 15 years old and over who traveled for any purpose within the country during the…

The annual employment rate or the percentage of the labor force who were employed in 2010 was 92.7 percent. This rate was calculated using the average estimates of employed persons and persons in the labor force from the four rounds of the quarterly…

Filipino families earned 206 thousand pesos yearly, on the average, according to the 2009 Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES). Families in the bottom 30 percent income group, which may be considered as poor families, had much smaller yearly…

The Producer Price Index (PPI, 2000=100) for the manufacturing industry continued to decrease at a slower rate of 6.2 percent, showing an improvement from its 7.2 percent decrease in November 2010, according to the preliminary results of the monthly…

The seasonally adjusted CPI of FBT in NCR and AONCR registered correspondingly at 158.3 and 173.8 in January were higher than their respective December levels of 157.4 and 172.5.