Quickstat Index

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REGION VII - CENTRAL VISAYAS
July 2008

A monthly update of NSO's most requested statistics


INDICATOR REFERENCE PERIOD and DATA
PRICES June 2008 May 2008 June 2007
  Consumer Price Index (2000=100) 164.1 160.0 146.0
    Inflation rate 12.4 10.9 2.0
    Purchasing power of the peso 0.61 0.63 0.68
DOMESTIC TRADE
(quantity in thousand tons; value in P1,000)
3rd Qtr
2007
2nd Qtr
2007
3rd Qtr
2006
  Coastwise trade      
    Quantity 25,308 37,008 72,090
    Value 874,289 1,210,302 2,277,051
  Rail trade      
    Quantity - - -
    Value - - -
  Air trade      
    Quantity 1,643 1,049 1,972
    Value 40,137 35,439 39,278
LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT (Source: LFS) 6/ Apr 2008 Jan 2008 Apr 2007
  Labor force (in thousand) - 4,349 4,307
    Labor force participation rate 64.0 63.7 64.7
      Employment rate 92.3 93.2 94.3
      Unemployment rate 7.7 6.8 5.7
CONSTRUCTION
(Floor area in square meters; value in P1,000)
3rd Qtr
2007
2nd Qtr
2007
3rd Qtr
2006
  Total (number) 3,389 3,465 2,046
    Total floor area 436,590 462,514 478,623
    Value 2,620,022 3,092,868 3,797,596
  Residential (number) 2,690 2,622 1,389
    Total floor area 258,108 272,186 168,174
    Value 1,460,046 1,582,018 853,569
  Nonresidential (number) 287 258 215
    Total floor area 168,039 183,051 305,516
    Value 1,074,658 1,446,127 2,886,917
  Additions (number) 50 138 77
    Total floor area 10,443 7,277 4,933
    Value 52,893 38,322 32,604
  Alterations/repairs (number) 362 447 365
    Value 32,422 26,399 24,506
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY
(Sources: CPBI-1999/ASPBI-2001/2003)
2003 2001 1999
  Number of establishments
  (CPBI and ASPBI with 20 or more workers)
     
    Agriculture and forestry/Agriculture, hunting and forestry 74 126 -
    Fishery/Fishing 36 38 38
    Mining and quarrying 9 - 7
    Manufacturing 539 543 633
    Electricity, gas, and water 35 32 31
    Construction 38 45 58
    Wholesale and retail trade 321 339 -
    Hotels and restaurants 150 151 178
    Transportation/Transport, storage and communications 72 80 91
    Financial intermediation 24 62 95
    Real estate/Real estate, renting and business activities 74 80 99
    Education/Private education 134 125 131
    Health/Health and social work 29 31 28
    Other community, social and personal services 41 50 61
FAMILY INCOME AND EXPENDITURE (Source: FIES)
(in peso, at current prices)
2003 p 2000 1997
  Annual average family income 121,401 99,531 85,215
  Annual average family expenditure 102,148 83,644 69,569
  Annual average family saving 19,253 15,887 15,646
DEMOGRAPHY                                                             2007 2000 1995 1990
  Total population                                                 6,398,628 5,706,953 5,014,588 4,594,124
    Urban 2,646,114 - 1,950,514
    Rural 3,060,839 - 2,643,610
    Male 50.1% 50.2% 50.0%
    Female 49.9% 49.8% 50.0%
    0-14 years 36.8% 38.3% 39.2%
    15-64 years 58.4% 57.2% 56.3%
    65 years and over 4.7% 4.5% 4.4%
  Density (persons per square kilometer) 381.0 321.8 294.8
  Growth rate                                                                1.59 2.79 1.65 1.95
  Average household size 5.0 5.0 5.2
  2008 2007 2006
  Population projection (medium assumption) 1/ 6,754,200 6,619,800 6,487,800
VITAL STATISTICS 2005 2004 2003
  Registered births 2/ n.a. 154,714 148,459
    Male n.a. 80,770 77,025
    Female n.a. 73,944 71,434
  Registered marriages 2/ 37,961 42,975 43,060
  Registered deaths 2/ n.a. 32,488 33,136
    Male n.a. 18,332 18,781
    Female n.a. 14,156 14,355
  2000-2005 2005-2010 2010-2015
  Crude birth rate (per 1,000 population) 1/ 26.5 25.4 24.0
  Crude death rate (per 1,000 population) 1/ 6.8 6.3 6.0
  Crude rate of natural increase (per 1,000 population) 1/ 19.7 19.1 18.0
  Total fertility rate (number of children per woman) 1/ 3.5 3.2 3.0
  Life expectancy at birth (in years) 1/      
    Male 65.9 67.4 68.9
    Female 71.2 72.7 73.9
FAMILY PLANNING (Source: FPS) 2006 2005 2004
  Modern method 3/ 35.8 33.7 30.0
  Traditional method 3/ 16.4 18.4 17.7
EDUCATION (Source: FLEMMS) 2003 1994 1989
  Simple literacy rate (10 years old and over)4/ - 93.1 88.0
  Functional literacy rate (10 to 64 years old)5/ 81.7 80.8 70.6
1/    -Source: 2000 Census-Based National, Regional and Provincial Population Projections.
2/    -Based on civil registration. Not adjusted for underregistration.
3/    -Based on currently married women aged 15-49 years.
4/    -Basic reading and writing skills.
5/    -Basic reading, writing, and computational skills.
6/    -Estimates are preliminary and may change. Figures were estimated using
       the 2000 Census-based Population Projections.
r     -Revised
p     -Preliminary
CPBI     -Census of Philippine Business and Industry.
ASPBI   -Annual Survey of Philippine Business Industry.
n.a.       -not yet available.

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August 27, 2008
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