The rate of increase in consumer prices quickened in April, hitting its highest level in more than three-years, due to higher food and fuel costs, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported on Thursday, May 5. The country's headline Inflation clocked in at 4.9 percent last month, faster...
All regions in the country posted positive economic growths last year, a reversal of the contractions seen at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported. Data from the PSA revealed on Thursday, April 28 that all economies of 17 regions in the...
(PSA PHILIPPINE IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM FACEBOOK) As part of the Philippine Identification System (PhilSys) project, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) has officially unveiled the PhilSys Check, an authentication system for the Philippine Identification (PhilID) card through its QR code...
Exports of Philippine-made goods rose at a much faster pace at 12 percent in the first two-months of the year owing to strong demand for electronic products, the government announced. The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) released data on Friday, April 8, showing that exports earnings grew 12...
Despite having fewer jobless Filipinos in February this year compared to the same period in 2021, Malacañang said that more needs to be done to allow everyone to return to work amid the Covid-19 pandemic. (File Photo) Communications Secretary Martin Andanar made this statement after the...
The country’s unemployment rate steadied at 6.4 percent in February, translating to 3.13 million jobless Filipinos following the further easing of mobility and quarantine restrictions, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). The PSA’s preliminary February 2022 Labor Force Survey...
Consumer prices quickened at a much faster pace in March amid skyrocketing fuel costs. The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported Tuesday, April 5, that headline inflation clocked in at 4.0 percent last month, jumping from 3.0 percent in February, but marginally slower compared with 4.1...
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 welcomed the result of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) 's January 2022 Labor Force Survey showing the country's unemployment rate decreased from 6.6 percent in December 2021 to 6.4 percent in January this year, saying this was due to the move of the government to ease...
Unemployment rate fell to its lowest level since the start of the pandemic despite stricter quarantine restrictions amid Omicron surge in January, data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed on Friday, March 18. The number of jobless Filipinos stood at 2.93 million in the first month...
Trade deficit, which is the difference between the value of export and import of a country, jumped by 63 percent in the first month of the year as Filipinos bought more foreign-made products, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported on Friday, March 11. Data from the PSA showed that the...
Factory output continued to accelerate, albeit at a slower pace, in the first month of the year due to strong production in tobacco as well as wood, bamboo, cane, rattan articles and related products. In its Monthly Integrated Survey of Selected Industries (MISSI), the Philippine Statistics...
