The 1996 Family Planning Survey (FPS) is a nationwide survey aimed at collecting information on contraceptive use in the Philippines in 1996. It is the second in a series of annual family planning surveys to be conducted by the National Statistics…

The value of production index (VPI) in key manufacturing enterprises slightly increased by 0.1 percent to 453.0 in February 1997 from 452.5 a year ago. On a month-on-month comparison, VPI increased by 10.4 percent from 410.4 last January 1997. These…

Total trade for the first two months of 1997 amounted to $8.969 billion, an increase of 17.9 percent over $7.610 billion recorded during the same period in 1996. Payments for imported goods increased by 18.9 percent to $5.464 billion from $4.596…

Value of exports for the first two months of 1997 grew by 16.2 percent to $3.503 billion, an increase of $488.56 million from $3.014 billion during the same period a year ago. Receipts from merchandise exports for February 1997 alone reached $1.811…

Measured from a year ago, the national inflation rate moved up to 4.8 percent in March from 4.4 percent in February. Month-on-Month Month-on-month inflation rate increased to 0.8 percent from 0.4 percent last month.

The value of production index (VPI) in key manufacturing enterprises decreased by 6.3 percent to 406.9 in January 1997 from 434.4 a year ago. On a month-on-month comparison, the VPI increased by 2.9 percent from 395.3 last December. These figures…

March 21, 1987 Institutionalizing the Philippine Economic-Environmental and Natural Resources Accounting (PEENRA) System and Creating Units Within the Organizational Structure of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), National…

The labor force population which comprised the employed and the unemployed was estimated at 29.6 million persons in January 1997. Last year's comparative estimate was 28.9 million persons.

Merchandise trade for the first month of 1997 grew by 23.9 percent to $4.529 billion from the year-ago level of $3.656 billion. Export receipts went up by 19.2 percent to $1.692 billion while payments for imports rose by 26.9 percent to $2.837…

Led by gains from Electronics and Components and Input/Output/Peripheral Units, aggregate earnings for January 1997 grew by 18.8 percent to $1.688 billion from $1.420 billion last year. Compared to the previous month, receipts decreased by 10.4…