Frequency of Publication & Date of Release

Monthly, available one month after the reference month

The Publication Contents & Uses

Provides the latest available monthly statistical indicators of the levels and trends of the country’s economic activities and performance to meet the varying needs of policy makers, decision-makers and other researchers

Time Span of Data Contents

Moving thirteen-month time series

Geographic Area Covered

National and regional (for some sectors)

Data Contents

Employment:

Employment services and local placements; Overseas employment; Strikes; Index of employment and compensation of key manufacturing enterprises;

External Sector:

Peso-dollar guiding rate; Salary remittances of overseas Filipino workers; Volume and value of merchandise exports and imports and indices of external trade;

Money and banking:

Money supply and factor affecting money supply; Domestic liquidity Currency issue and domestic credits of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Gross and net domestic credits of the deposit money banks/monetary system; Reserve money and available reserves of the commercial banking system; Call loan money market; Interest rates; Initial paid-up capital investments of newly established corporations and partnerships and capital increases of established domestic organizations

Prices:

Inflation rate; Purchasing power of the peso; Consumer price index; General wholesale price index (WPI) and WPI of selected construction materials; Retail price index (RPI) and RPI of selected construction materials; Average retail price of selected locally produced commodities; World prices of selected commodities

Production and consumption:

Electric energy production and consumption; Local production of forest and mineral products; Domestic sales of petroleum products and petroleum consumption; Index of value of production of key manufacturing enterprises; Water production and consumption and water connections

Public finance:

Collections of the Bureau of Internal Revenue and Bureau of Customs Internal public debt; Cash operations of the national government and status of treasury cash balance; Location of funds;

Transportation and tourism:

Passenger and freight carried by the Philippine National Railways; Passengers carried by the Metrorail Transit; Motor vehicle registration; aircraft and passenger movement; visitor arrivals

Estimated No. of Pages:     About 30 pp.

Other Dissemination:    CDROM/E-mail

Publisher

Agency: National Statistical Coordination Board
Address: 2F Midland Buendia Bldg., 403 Gil Puyat Avenue
Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines
Telephone Nos.: 895-27-67/890-94-05/890-31-35
Fax Nos.: 890-94-08/890-31-35
E-mail: info@nscb.gov.ph
URL: http://www.nscb.gov.ph