LUCENA CITY, Quezon – The Census of Agriculture and Fisheries 2022 in this province conducted by the Philippine Statistics Authority is underway. About 62,000 respondents involved in farming, fishing, and aquaculture are the target of the census, PSA-Quezon officer Airene Pucyutan said....
The rate of increase in consumer prices accelerated for the first time in six months in August, driven by higher food and transport costs, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported. In a briefing on Tuesday, Sept. 5, National Statistician Dennis S. Mapa said that the headline inflation...
A sample copy of a PhiID card (MB File Photo) Senator Francis Escudero on Wednesday, August 9 said he will ask the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) and the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) for “quantifiable targets” when they come to the Senate for the 2024 national budget...
CALASIAO, Pangasinan – Better late than never. A 99-year-old woman, Estepania N. Descalzo, also known as “Lola Panyang,” from Aguilar, this province, recently received her birth certificate from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), 99 years after she was born in 1923. ESTEPANIA N....
Of approximately two million OFWs deployed to different countries, more than half are women—here’s a bittersweet story from one of them By: Jelica R. Enriquez I was excited to come home. These were my first thoughts when I boarded the plane on my return flight to Manila. The thrill of traveling...
On the heels of the disappointing news that the inflation rate had risen even higher to 8.7 percent in January – beyond the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ forecast range of 7.5 to 8.3 percent, and the government’s target range of two to four percent – there was a vital piece of good news on...
The third quarter 2022 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate was maintained at 7.6-percent. However, changes were observed in all industries except public administration and defense; compulsory social activities. The major contributors were: real estate and ownership of dwellings, from 3.1...
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...
