Amid delays in the rollout of the Philippine Identification System (PhilSys) ID, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said that 10 million electronic Philippine ID have been issued to Filipinos. National Statistician and Civil Registrar General Dennis S. Mapa said a total of 10,126,352...
Department of Social Welfare and Development The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) led the kick-off for the Inter-Agency National Indigenous Peoples (IPs) Birth Registration Special Project through the ceremonial signing of a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with partner-agencies...
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...
Imports continued to outpace the country’s exports, but at a much narrower level, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported. The PSA said on Tuesday, Dec. 13, that the country’s trade gap, or the difference between the value of export and import, dropped 13 percent to $3.3 billion in...
The country's unemployment rate fell back to pre-pandemic levels in October this year on increased economic activities ahead of the holiday season, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said. Based on the results of the October 2022 Labor Force Survey released by the PSA on Wednesday, Dec. 7,...
Consumer prices accelerated further to 8 percent in November, hitting a fresh 14-year high on the back of sustained rise in food costs, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported. Headline inflation surged to 8.0 percent last month from 7.7 percent in October and 3.7 percent in the same...
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the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee in relation to its investigation on the controversial procurement of overpriced and outdated laptops...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 country’s rosy economic environment failed to lure more foreign investments in the third-quarter, data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed. The PSA reported Tuesday, Nov. 15, that the total approved foreign investments in July to September 2022 went down by 22 percent to...
Births per woman of a childbearing age in the country continued to decline this year, falling below the replacement level for the first time, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported. Based on the preliminary results of the PSA’s 2022 National Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS),...
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...
The Philippine economic growth accelerated in the third quarter this year, which coincided with the first three months of the Marcos administration, despite surging consumer prices, depreciating peso and heightened uncertainty about the global economy. In a briefing on Thursday, Nov. 10,...
