QUICKSTAT on NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION April 2000 A monthly update of NSO's most requested statistics |
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| INDICATOR | REFERENCE PERIOD and DATA | ||
| PRICES | Mar. 2000 | Feb. 2000 | Mar. 1999 |
| Consumer Price Index (1994=100) | 148.6 | 148.3 | 144.0r |
| Inflation rate | 3.2 | 2.8 | 7.5r |
| Purchasing power of the peso | 0.67 | 0.67 | 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. 2000 | 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) |
4th Qtr 1999 | 3rd Qtr 1999 | 4th Qtr 1998 |
| Total | 2,922 | 3,267 | 1,978 |
| Total floor area | 546,339 | 773,056 | 556,531 |
| Value | 4,240,709 | 6,083,927 | 4,529,404 |
| Residential | 1,521 | 1,699 | 1,045 |
| Total floor area | 315,970 | 334,468 | 225,358 |
| Value | 2,125,144 | 1,923,750 | 1,268,211 |
| Nonresidential | 398 | 475 | 314 |
| Total floor area | 190,945 | 380,371 | 301,927 |
| Value | 1,320,974 | 3,197,196 | 2,729,917 |
| Additions | 224 | 257 | 186 |
| Total floor area | 39,424 | 58,217 | 29,246 |
| Value | 208,397 | 371,443 | 152,835 |
| Alterations, repairs, and others | 779 | 836 | 433 |
| Value | 586,194 | 591,538 | 378,441 |
| 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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