Quickstat Index

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NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION
December 2002

A monthly update of NSO's most requested statistics


INDICATOR REFERENCE PERIOD and DATA
PRICES Nov. 2002 Oct. 2002 Nov. 2001
  Consumer Price Index (1994=100) 169.0 168.5 165.5r
    Inflation rate 2.1 2.6 4.6
    Purchasing power of the peso 0.59 0.59 0.60
  Sept. 2002 Aug. 2002 Sept. 2001
  Retail Price Index for Construction Materials      
      in Metro Manila (1978=100) 829.4 833.4 831.8
  General Wholesale Price Index in Metro Manila (1985=100) 277.7 281.4r 270.1r
  Oct. 2002 Sept. 2002 Oct. 2001
  Wholesale Price Index for Construction Materials      
       in Metro Manila (1985=100) 251.4 251.7r 244.8
DOMESTIC TRADE (quantity in tons; value in P1,000) 1st Qtr. 2002p 4th Qtr. 2001p 1st Qtr. 2001
  Coastwise trade      
    Quantity 569,488 787,131 684,682
    Value 19,607,852 27,614,793 21,562,057
  Rail trade      
    Quantity 157 146 179
    Value 6,203 6,378 4,888
  Air trade      
    Quantity 3,816 4,395 5,186
    Value 298,877 634,435 316,560
LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT (Source: LFS) Jul. 2002 Apr. 2002 Jul. 2001
  Labor force (in thousand) 7,295 4,929 7,135
    Labor force participation rate 64.2 68.1 63.7
      Employment rate 82.6 79.7 84.3
      Unemployment rate 17.4 20.3 15.7
CONSTRUCTION
(Floor area in square meters; value in P1,000)
2nd Qtr 2002 1st Qtr 2002 2nd Qtr 2001
  Total (number) 4,050 3,935 3,681
    Total floor area 926,383 1,294,597 804,439
    Value 8,038,186 21,081,964 6,234,418
  Residential (number) 2,231 2,014 1,964
    Total floor area 467,270 392,113 509,997
    Value 3,782,837 2,582,680 3,121,792
  Nonresidential (number) 450 857 466
    Total floor area 402,176 845,405 225,744
    Value 3,197,448 17,108,101 1,950,395
  Additions (number) 410 293 347
    Total floor area 56,937 57,079 68,698
    Value 342,461 316,356 459,657
  Alterations/repairs (number) 959 771 904
    Value 715,440 1,074,827 702,574
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY (Source: LE) 2000 1999  
  Number of establishments (With 10 or more workers)      
    Agriculture and Forestry 18 18  
    Fishery 2 20  
    Mining and quarrying 20 20  
    Manufacturing 6,827 6,326  
    Electricity, gas, and water 25 24  
    Construction 815 825  
    Wholesale and retail trade 7,014 6,074  
    Hotels and restaurants 3,252 3,072  
    Transportation 1,564 1,455  
    Financial intermediation establishments 2,305 2,241  
    Real estate and other business activities 2,794 2,622  
    Education 827 774  
    Health 365 351  
    Other community, social and personal services 694 653  
FAMILY INCOME AND EXPENDITURE (Source: FIES)
(in peso, at current prices)
2000 1997 1994
  Annual average family income 300,304 270,993 173,599
  Annual average family expenditure 244,240 217,840 138,427
  Annual average family saving 56,064 53,153 35,172
DEMOGRAPHY 2000 1995 1990
  Total population 9,932,560 9,454,040 7,948,392
    Male n.a. 48.8% 48.6%
    Female n.a. 51.2% 51.4%
    0-14 years n.a. 32.6% 33.5%
    15-64 years n.a. 64.8% 64.1%
    65 years and over n.a. 2.5% 2.4%
  Density (persons per square kilometer) 15,617.0 14,928.2 12,550.8
  Growth rate 1.06 3.30 2.98
  Average household size 4.6 4.7 5.0
  2002 2001 2000
  Population projection (medium assumption) 1/ 10,728,904 10,558,447 10,387,991
VITAL STATISTICS      
  1998 1997 1996
  Registered births 2/ 312,133 325,841 315,715
    Male 166,624 170,111 165,117
    Female 145,509 155,730 150,600
  Registered marriages 2/ 100,805 105,639 98,138
  1997 1996 1995
  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) 2001 2000 1999
  Modern method  3/ 38.2 33.6 37.5
  Traditional method 3/ 13.0 12.1 15.5
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
n.a. -not yet available

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