Quickstat Index

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NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION
September 2000

A monthly update of NSO's most requested statistics


INDICATOR REFERENCE PERIOD and DATA
PRICES Aug. 2000 July 2000 Aug. 1999
  Consumer Price Index (1994=100) 152.2 151.3 145.0r
    Inflation rate 5.0 4.8r 4.2
    Purchasing power of the peso 0.65 0.66 0.68
  Retail Price Index for Construction Materials      
       in Metro Manila (1978=100) 788.7 785.9 772.4
  July 2000 June 2000 July 1999
  General Wholesale Price Index in Metro Manila (1985=100) 257.7 253.5 248.5
  Wholesale Price Index for Construction Materials      
       in Metro Manila (1985=100) 233.4 233.1 229.1
DOMESTIC TRADE (quantity in tons; value in P1,000) 1999p 1998 1997
  Coastwise trade      
    Quantity 2,508,699 3,015,506 2,823,210
    Value 74,550,149 69,668,917 71,699,384
  Rail trade      
    Quantity 868 882 1,248
    Value 29,809 32,956 45,029
  Air trade      
    Quantity 23,533 19,233 29,667
    Value 1,674,256 1,316,602 2,093,829
LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT (Source: LFS) July 2000 June 2000 Ju7ly 1999
  Labor force (in thousand) 4,389 4,503 4,324
    Labor force participation rate 62.4 64.5 63.2
      Employment rate 82.7 81.4 84.6
      Unemployment rate 17.3 18.6 15.4
CONSTRUCTION
(Floor area in square meters; value in P1,000)
1st Qtr 2000 4th Qtr 1999 1st Qtr 1999
  Total 3,546 2,922 3,505
    Total floor area 1,153,042 546,339 914,343
    Value 7,008,248 4,240,709 6,998,918
  Residential 1,916 1,521 2,174
    Total floor area 402,056 315,970 381,284
    Value 2,957,272 2,125,144 2,395,029
  Nonresidential 364 398 434
    Total floor area 693,533 190,945 482,312
    Value 3,048,569 1,320,974 3,769,544
  Additions 315 224 258
    Total floor area 57,453 39,424 50,747
    Value 329,196 208,397 278,967
  Alterations, repairs, and others 951 779 639
    Value 673,211 586,194 555,378
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY (Sources: ASE/CE) 1997P 1996P 1995
  Number of establishments (With 10 or more workers)      
    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      
  1997 1996 1995
  Registered births 2/ 325,841 315,717 311,406
    Male 170,111 165,117 163,347
    Female 155,730 150,600 148,059
  Registered marriages 2/ 108,883 105,639 98,138
  Registered deaths 2/ 58,746 58,949 54,211
    Male 34,880 34,949 32,409
    Female 23,866 24,000 21,802
  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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