Quickstat Index

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NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION
March 2000

A monthly update of NSO's most requested statistics


INDICATOR REFERENCE PERIOD and DATA
PRICES Feb. 2000 Jan. 2000 Feb. 1999
  Consumer Price Index (1994=100) 148.3 147.8 144.5
    Inflation rate 2.8 2.0 8.7
    Purchasing power of the peso 0.67 0.68 0.69
  Oct. 1999 Sept. 1999 Oct. 1998
  Retail Price Index for Construction Materials      
       in Metro Manila (1978=100) 772.4 773.0 776.9
  Wholesale Price Index for Construction Materials      
       in Metro Manila (1985=100) 231.2 230.8 227.3
  Sept. 1999 Aug. 1999 Sept. 1998
  General Wholesale Price Index for Construction      
      Materials in Metro Manila (1985=100) 255.1 253.3 243.9
DOMESTIC TRADE (quantity in tons; value in P1,000) 1999p 1998 1997
  Coastwise trade      
    Quantity 1,842,586 3,015,506 2,823,210
    Value 53,988,119 69,668,917 71,699,384
  Rail trade      
    Quantity 222 882 1,248
    Value 7,560 32,956 45,029
  Air trade      
    Quantity 12,619 19,233 29,667
    Value 673,543 1,316,602 2,093,829
LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT (Source: LFS) Jan. 2000p Oct. 1999 Jan. 1999
  Labor force (in thousand) 4,339 4,426 4,325
    Labor force participation rate 62.6 64.3 64.1
      Employment rate 83.8 84.0 84.3
      Unemployment rate 16.2 16.0 15.7
CONSTRUCTION
(Floor area in square meters; value in P1,000)
3rd Qtr 1999 2nd Qtr 1999 3rd Qtr 1998
  Total 3,320 3,686 2,909
    Total floor area 773,056 940,349 696,421
    Value 6,102,458 6,935,118 5,957,784
  Residential 1,699 2,190 1,636
    Total floor area 334,468 434,564 313,074
    Value 1,923,750 2,607,200 1,835,968
  Nonresidential 475 417 396
    Total floor area 380,371 463,462 339,622
    Value 3,197,196 3,438,578 3,336,797
  Additions 257 247 249
    Total floor area 58,217 42,323 43,725
    Value 371,443 200,063 213,043
  Alterations, repairs, and others 836 792 628
    Value 591,538 605,253 571,976
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY (Sources: ASE/CE) 1997P 1996P 1995
  Number of establishments      
    Financing, real estate, and business services 5,947 5,707 3,646
    Transportation, communication, and storage 1,824 1,795 1,196
    Wholesale and retail trade 8,324 8,222 4,612
  1995 1994 1993
    Agriculture and forestry 32 28 33
    Community, social, and personal services 5,201 4,950 4,746
    Construction 942 798 888
    Electricity, gas, and water 19 17 14
    Fishery 17 18 15
    Manufacturing 5,117 5,423 5,500
    Mining and quarrying 16 15 17
FAMILY INCOME AND EXPENDITURE (Source: FIES)
(in peso, at current prices)
1997 1994 1991
  Annual average family income 270,993 173,599 138,256
  Annual average family expenditure 217,840 138,427 105,731
  Annual average family saving 53,153 35,172 32,525
DEMOGRAPHY 1995 1990 1980
  Total population 9,454,040 7,948,392 5,925,884
    Male 48.8% 48.6% 48.2%
    Female 51.2% 51.4% 51.8%
    0-14 years 32.6% 33.5% 34.7%
    15-64 years 64.8% 64.1% 62.9%
    65 years and over 2.5% 2.4% 2.4%
  Density (persons per square kilometer) 14,928.2 12,550.8 9,357.2
  Growth rate 3.30 2.98 4.10
  Average household size 4.7 5.0 5.4
  2002 2001 2000
  Population projection (medium assumption) 1/ 10,728,904 10,558,447 10,387,991
VITAL STATISTICS      
  1996 1995 1994
  Registered births 2/ 315,717 311,406 295,916
    Male 165,117 163,347 154,904
    Female 150,600 148,059 141,012
  Registered marriages 2/ 105,639 98,138 101,391
  1995 1994 1993
  Registered deaths 2/ 54,211 52,203 52,797
    Male 32,409 31,454 31,857
    Female 21,802 20,749 20,940
  2002 2001 2000
  Crude birth rate (per 1,000 population) 1/ 19.7 20.3 20.9
  Crude death rate(per 1,000 population) 1/ 4.6 4.6 4.6
  Crude rate of natural increase (per 1,000 population) 1/ 15.1 15.7 16.3
  Total fertility rate (number of children per woman)  1/ 2.00 2.05 2.09
  Life expectancy at birth (in years)  1/      
    Male 68.4 68.1 67.8
    Female 72.9 72.6 72.3
FAMILY PLANNING (Source: FPS) 1999 1998 1997
  Modern method  3/ 37.5 28.7 35.2
  Traditional method  3/ 15.5 20.7 15.9
EDUCATION (Source: FLEMMS) 1994 1989  
  Simple literacy rate (10 years old and over) 4/ 98.8 98.1  
  Functional literacy rate (10 to 64 years old) 5/ 92.4 90.6  
1/ -Source: 1995 Census-Based National, Regional and Provincial Population Projections, Volume II.
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.
r  -Revised
p  -Preliminary

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