Industry, Trade, Service and Investment Statistics

Scope and coverage:

- Statistics on industry and trade cover data and indicators that describe and measure the characteristics, activities and outputs of the economic units in the sector. It also covers domestic and international transactions undertaken by the sector.

These include: establishment data by sector (industry and service);
international trade (trade-in-goods and trade-in-services); domestic trade (distributive trade; wholesale and retail trade); commodity flow; and other related indicators such as productivity, SMSE, foreign trade index, retail trade index (Disaggregation of data and indicators are regional and to some extent at the provincial level)

- Investment statistics include:investment statistics cover data on both foreign and domestic investments. Foreign investment statistics include statistics on non-residents’ direct investments, portfolio investments and other investments in the Philippines while statistics on domestic investments include all those relating to investments of Filipinos in the domestic economy.

Investments can either be inward or outward depending upon the direction of flow. Statistics on inward investments cover all investments entering the Philippines from other countries or economies while statistics on outward investments refer to investments of Philippine residents in other countries or economies.