EDITORIAL As Christmas Day nears, here’s a bit of good news from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). The country’s employment rate in October 2022 stood at 95.5 percent, “the highest rate recorded since January 2020, and registered to have bounced back from pre-pandemic levels.” This...
Senator Francis "Tol" Tolentino on Thursday, November 17, chided the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) over its supposed refusal to comply with a subpoena from the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee in relation to its investigation on the controversial procurement of overpriced and outdated laptops...
The government should not waste any opportunity to sustain the positive momentum of the growth of the Philippine economy, Senate Majority Leader Joel Villanueva said today. Villanueva made this statement following a Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) report that the Philippine economy is growing...
The methodology of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) in getting and giving information should be checked before it is given out, Senator Francis Tolentino said. According to Tolentino, wrong information or erroneous data leads to mistakes in the planning stages by the government on programs...
Poll watchdog Legal Network for Truthful Elections (Lente) hosted the kickoff of the source code review and presentation of the sampling software on Monday, March 28 that will be used on the conduct of the random manual audit (RMA) for the May 2022 automated elections. (Screenshot from LENTE...
Malacañang is expecting more livelihoods for Filipinos to be generated as approved foreign investments jumped in 2021 amid improving economic conditions despite the pandemic. People flock to Ilaya in Binondo, Manila to shop, with the National Capital Region enjoying the benefits of easing of...
Malacañang is optimistic that the country's employment situation will improve in the coming months as more Filipinos are expected to return to work with the easing of quarantine restrictions and the reopening of economic activities. People flock to Ilaya in Binondo, Manila to shop, with the...
As a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Philippines’ ocean economy declined by 32.6 percent, recording a gross value added (GVA) of P617.20 billion in 2020 from P916.31 billion in 2019, data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed. Accounting for 3.4 percent of the...
The country’s total agricultural trade reached $5.93 billion during the third quarter of this year, increasing at an annual rate of 14.8 percent amid the continuously increasing imports. Data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed that during the third quarter of 2021, agricultural...
The unemployment rate in the Philippines continues to decrease as it recorded its third lowest for the year following the gradual improvement in the country's pandemic situation, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said. (Photo courtesy of the DPWH) Citing the latest Labor Force Survey of...
Amid the continuous entry of imported chicken into the country and the threat of local raisers to cut their production, the Philippines' chicken output during the first nine months of the year went down by 1.4 percent to 425,890 metric tons (MT) liveweight. Data from the Philippine Statistics...
The government will distribute direct cash assistance of P5,000 to as many as 59,125 farmers in Nueva Ecija to be funded from the excess rice import tariff collection under the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF). The Department of Agriculture (DA) formally launched this week RCEF’s Rice...
