BACOLOD CITY – Fifteen thousand individuals here have no birth certificates and the Civil Registrar’s Office is eyeing to register them. Hermilo Pa-oyon, city civil registrar, said that they were among the more than 19,000 individuals who have submitted their documents for verification based on...
The country posted a lower trade deficit in December after mild contractions in exports and imports, data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed Friday, Jan. 26. The trade gap, or the difference between the value of exports and imports, declined by 11 percent to $4.01 billion in...
The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said that registering for the Philippine Identification System (PhilSys), also known as the national ID, can be done without the need for a prior appointment. In an effort to simplify registration services and make them more accessible, PSA Undersecretary...
The country’s rice inventory significantly declined a quarter in December, but the government assured sufficient supply that will last until the next harvest season. A report from the Philippine Statistics Authority showed that the rice stock dropped 25 percent to 1.90 million metric tons (MT)...
The price of well-milled rice slightly increased during the first week of January amid the dry spell forecast this year, based on the data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). According to the PSA report, a kilogram of well-milled rice cost P55.5 from January 1 to 5, which is higher than...
Growth in the retail prices of construction materials in Metro Manila inched up in December last year after 16 months of decline, according to a report by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). Based on the survey of seven commodity groups, the growth in the Construction Materials Retail Price...
ILOILO CITY – The Western Visayas region recorded its lowest inflation rate since 2021 last December, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA)-6 said. PEOPLE purchase fish in a stall in Iloilo City. Inflation in Western Visayas decreased to a two-year low last month. (Tara Yap) PSA-6 said the...
Senate Majority Leader Joel Villanueva on Thursday, January 11 welcomed the reported decline in the country’s unemployment rate saying it is a positive indication that the Philippine economy has fully recovered. “We laud the decline of our unemployment rate to 3.6 percent last...
The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported that country's trade deficit widened in November last year due to the significant decline in exports and a rise in imports. Preliminary data from the PSA showed that the trade in goods resulted in a deficit of $4.7 billion in November, an increase...
The growth of the country's manufacturing output picked up speed in November last year, driven by improved production of beverages, transport equipment, and chemical products, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said. The volume of production index (VoPI) increased by 1.9 percent in November,...
The number of jobless Filipinos dropped below two million in November of last year, leading to the lowest unemployment rate in the country in almost two decades, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported. PSA Undersecretary and National Statistician Claire Dennis S. Mapa, the announced on...
The wholesale price growth of general goods saw a slowdown in November last year at 4.2 percent from October, data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed. The November reading of the general wholesale price index (GWPI) was weaker than the year-earlier 7.2 percent. From January to...
