Employment rate in PH hits highest since 2005 – PSA
The employment rate in the country was estimated at 95.8 percent in October 2023, the highest recorded employment rate since April 2005 and the same with estimated rate in November …
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PH inflation rate now at 6.1 percent – PSA
The Philippines’ headline inflation or overall inflation increased further to 6.1 percent in September 2023 from 5.3 percent in August 2023. This makes the national average inflation from January to …
Headline inflation declines further to 5.2 percent – PSA
The Philippine’s overall inflation for the bottom 30% income households continued to exhibit a downward trend as it decelerated further to 5.2 percent in July 2023 from 6.1 percent in …
Number of working children aged 5 to 17 years old increased – PSA
The total population of children aged 5 to 17 years old was estimated at 31.71 million in 2022. This was higher than the total number reported in 2021 at 31.64 …
Mother who allegedly strangled her child has 3 other children
A mother suspected of strangling her own 2-year-old child will leave behind three more children after being jailed for parricide this Wednesday. According to alias ”Janna,” a cousin of the …
Inflation rate soars to 8.7 percent on January 2023 – PSA
Headline inflation rate in the Philippines continued its uptrend as it accelerated further to 8.7 percent in January 2023, from 8.1 percent in December 2022. The January 2023 inflation is …
Employment rate in October 2022 at 95.5 percent – PSA
The country’s employment rate continued to pick-up to 95.5 percent in October 2022, from 95.0 percent in the previous month. The estimated employment rate this October 2022 was the highest …
Inflation rate hits 7.7 percent in October 2022 – PSA
The headline inflation rate in the Philippines continued its uptrend as it moved up further to 7.7 percent in October 2022, from 6.9 percent in September 2022. This is the …
PSA: Printing of Nat’l ID delayed due to number of registrants
The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) announced that the number of people who registered to get a Philippine Identification System (PhilSys) or National ID was one of the reasons why the …
72 million Filipinos now registered to PhilSys
The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) closes in on its overall target for 2022 after registering more than 70 million Filipinos to the Philippine Identification System (PhilSys). According to the latest …
Filipino family needs P8K a month to eat 3 times a day – PSA
The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) announced that a family of five needs to budget more than P8,000 per month for affordable and nutritionally adequate food three times a day. But …
Validity of birth, death, marriage certificates now permanent
There is no need for the public to repeatedly obtain birth, death or marriage certificates from the Philippine Statistics Authority, or the former National Statistics Office because the validity of …
Marcos does not believe PH’s inflation rate is 6.1 percent
The government data claiming that the inflation rate was 6.1 percent over the last month is not accepted by President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. “6.1? I think I will have …
Fish production drops in early 2022: PSA
According to data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), fish production in the country dropped from January to March of 2022. In the released Fisheries Situation Report for the first …
Inflation increases further to 4.9 percent in April 2022 – PSA
The headline inflation in the Philippines increased further to 4.9 percent in April 2022, from 4.0 percent in March 2022. This is the highest recorded since January 2019. Inflation in …
COVID-19 ‘top 3 causes of death’ in PH for most of 2021
COVID-19 deaths now accounted for 13.8% of all registered deaths in the Philippines from January to November 2021, while the disease was the “third leading cause of death” locally when …
Unemployment eases to 6.5 percent in November 2021 – PSA
The country’s unemployment rate of 6.5 percent in November was the lowest since January 2021. The second lowest was in July 2021 at 6.9 percent, while the third lowest was …
2021 poverty incidence reported at 23.7 percent – PSA
The First Semester 2021 poverty incidence among population, or the proportion of poor Filipinos whose per capita income is not sufficient to meet their basic food and non-food needs, was …
Quezon City asks PSA to review 2020 census
The Quezon City government has asked the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) to scrutinize their 2020 census after the agency reported that the city’s population increased to only 23,932 from 2015 …
Unemployment rate in April 2021 estimated at 8.7 percent: PSA
The country’s unemployment rate in April 2021 was estimated at 8.7 percent. This was substantially lower than the record high 17.6 percent in April 2020 but higher compared to the …
PSA: Unemployment rate in PH expected to increase
According to data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), the majority of employees or self-employed entrepreneurs worked 39.7 hours per week in March, which is higher compared to February. But …
PSA: High meat prices likely to accelerate further
The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) expects meat inflation to accelerate in the coming months until it is remedied. It will be recalled that the country’s inflation peaked at 4.5 percent …
28M Filipinos completes Step 1 of National ID registration: PSA
As many as 28 million people have already registered for step 1 of obtaining a National ID, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). “Umabot na kami ng 28 million …
9.1M Pinoys lost their jobs since pandemic started in March 2020: PSA
Over 9.1 million Filipinos experience losing their jobs since the global COVID-19 pandemic started in March 2020. According to the Philippine Statistics Authority’s (PSA) February Labor Force Survey, that 9.1 …
Suicide deaths in PH increase amid pandemic – PSA
The number of suicides in the country has increased, making suicide the 27th leading cause of death in the Philippines. Based on data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), suicide …
Rice supply in Philippines down by 12.8 percent – PSA
The Philippine Statistics Authority reported that the rice inventory of the Philippines decreased by 12.8 percent. Mariz Umali reported on “24 Oras” on Thursday that the rice supply in the …