The scorching heat discouraged many job seekers, especially in the agriculture sector, leading to an increase in the number of unemployed Filipinos. The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) on Wednesday, May 8, reported that the number of jobless Filipinos rose to two million in March this year...
The inflation rate, or the rate of increase in prices of goods and services, inched up to 3.8 percent in April, as rice prices declined after a three-month surge, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported Tuesday, May 7. This figure was a bit higher than the 3.7 percent recorded previously...
The Tuesday session, May 7, of the Philippine Sportswriters Association (PSA) Forum is going to be as hot as the summer as top officials of the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP) and Samahang Weightlifting ng Pilipinas (SWP) together with the three lifters who qualified to the Paris Olympics...
BAGUIO CITY – The employment rate remains high in the Cordillera region, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority. The PSA said the region has an employment rate of 96.7 percent as of January 2024, higher than the national employment rate of 95.5 percent. On the other hand, the...
Across regions, Metro Manila had the highest reported cases of work-related diseases and injuries in 2021, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported. Based on the PSA report released on Friday, May 3, more than half, or 52.5 percent of the total work-related disease cases were reported in...
CALAPAN CITY, Oriental Mindoro – The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported that the Mimaropa region (Oriental Mindoro, Occidental Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon, and Palawan) registered a 4.7 percent growth and its economy was valued at P411.4 billion in 2023. LENI Rioflorido (third from...
Out of the total number of Filipinos who registered for the National ID system, more than half have already received their physical cards, leaving 35.94 million citizens still waiting. As of April 12, 2024, about 50.06 million Philippine identification (PhilID) cards have been delivered...
ILOILO CITY – The Philippines Statistics Authority announced that the Gross Domestic Regional Product (GRDP) of Western Visayas in 2023 was worth more than P1 trillion. THE skyline of Iloilo City, the regional capital of Iloilo City. (Tara Yap) Nelida Amolar, PSA-6 officer-in-charge, said this...
The growth of the country's digital economy slowed down last year despite surpassing the P2 trillion mark, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported. The gross value added of the digital economy amounted to P2.05 trillion from January to December 2023, a 7.7 percent increase compared to...
The amount of rice brought into the country reached 322,770 metric tons in February this year, higher by 109 percent compared to last year, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said. Based on the PSA report, the value of rice brought into the country reached $160.09 million during the month....
The value of production in agriculture and fisheries reached P1.76 trillion last year, with Central Luzon contributing the largest share among regions, data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed. However, this was slightly lower compared to the P1.77 trillion output recorded in...
The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported price hikes for several commodities like rice and cooking oil in the early days of April. The PSA said the average retail price of a kilogram of regular milled rice increased to P51.39 between April 1 and 5, from the previous month's prices of...
