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Consumer Price Index for All Income Households in Region V March 2024 (2018=100)

 

Bicol Region’s headline inflation or overall inflation increased to 3.7 percent in March 2024 from 2.9 percent in February 2024. This brings the regional average inflation from January 2024 to March 2024 at 3.2 percent. In March 2023, inflation rate…
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Consumer Price Index for All Income Households in Region V February 2024 (2018=100)

 

Bicol Region’s headline inflation or overall inflation further decelerated to 2.9 percent in February 2024. This brings the regional average inflation from January 2024 to February 2024 at 3.0 percent. In February 2023, inflation rate was higher at…
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Thirty-three Percent of Filipinos in Bicol Region are Poor in the First Semester of 2023

 

The first semester 2023 poverty incidence among population or the proportion of poor Filipinos in Bicol whose per capita income is not sufficient to meet their basic food and non-food needs was estimated at 32.9 percent or 2.07 million Filipinos.
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Awarding of Certificate of Live Birth in Security Paper to the Oldest Beneficiary Under the Birth Registration Assistance Project (BRAP) in the Bicol Region

 

29 February 2024 – BACACAY, ALBAY. One of the mandates of the Philippines Statistics Authority (PSA) is to carry out, enforce, and administer civil registration functions in the country as provided for in Act No. 3753, the Law on Registry of Civil…
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PSA and DSWD Seals Partnership Through PhilSys Registration, Authentication and ePhilID Issuance to 4P’s Beneficiaries

 

19 February 2024 – LEGAZPI CITY. The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) Region-V has successfully piloted the Philippine Identification System (PhilSys) Registration, Authentication and ePhilID Issuance for beneficiaries enrolled in the Pantawid…
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432K Individuals Registered to PhilSys in the Bicol Region for the year 2023

 

12 February 2024 – LEGAZPI CITY. The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) Region-V has successfully registered a total of 432,561 individuals for the year 2023, and a total of 4.59 million individuals since the start of the Philippine…
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Consumer Price Index for All Income Households in Region V January 2024 (2018=100)

 

Bicol Region's headline inflation or overall inflation decelerated to 3 . 1 percent in January 2024. This is the lowest inflation rate since the 2.8 percent inflation rate recorded in February 2022. Inflation rate was recorded at 4.9 percent in…
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PSA V Concludes Regional Elimination Round for 4th CRVS Quiz Bee

 

08 February 2024 – LEGAZPI CITY. On January 6, 2023, fourteen Local Civil Registry (LCRO) personnel from all over the Bicol Region went up against each other during the Regional Elimination Round for the 4th Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (…
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PSA-RSSO V Launches Kickoff for 34th Civil Registration Month on February 1, 2024

 

02 February 2024 – LEGAZPI CITY. As soon as February rolled in, the Philippine Statistics Authority Regional Statistical Services Office V (PSA- RSSO V), led by the Civil Registration and Administrative Support Division, threw a celebration to…
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Palay and Corn Situation Bicol Region, July to September 2023

 

Palay production decreases by 1.04% The July to September 2023 palay production in Bicol Region decreased to 219.33 thousand metric tons or by 1.04% from the 221.62 thousand metric tons output in 2022. Yield per hectare declined to 3.93 metric…
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Consumer Price Index for All Income Households in Region V November 2023 (2018=100)

 

Headline Inflation Bicol Region's headline inflation or overall inflation slowed down further to 4.5 percent in November 2023 from 4.7 percent in October 2023. This brings the regional average inflation from January to November 2023 at 6.0 percent…
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Consumer Price Index for All Income Households in Region V - October 2023 (2018=100)

 

Bicol Region’s headline inflation or overall inflation eased to 4.7 percent in October 2023 from 5.6 percent in September 2023. This makes the regional average inflation from January to October 2023 at 6.1 percent. In October 2022, inflation rate…
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Consumer Price Index for All Income Households in Region V September 2023. (2018=100)

 

The region's headline inflation or overall inflation increased to 5.6 percent in September 2023 from 4.4 percent in August 2023. This makes the regional average inflation from January to September 2023 at 6.3 percent. In September 2022, inflation…
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PSA RSSO V Hosted the Training-Workshop on Data to Non-Benchmark Accounts (Visayas Cluster)

 

The Philippine Statistics Authority Regional Statistical Services Office V (PSA RSSO V) hosted the Training Workshop on Data to Non-Benchmark Accounts (Visayas Cluster) at Gamboa’s Orchard, Malilipot, Albay on September 5 to 7, 2023. It was…
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Employment Rate in July 2023 in Bicol Region was Estimated at 93.8 Percent (Results from the July 2023 Labor Force Survey)

 

In July 2023. the region's unemployment rate increased to 6.2 percent from 5.2 percent in the same month last year. Unemployment rate was posted at 3 9 percent in April 2023.
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Consumer Price Index for All Income Households in Region V August 2023. (2018=100)

 

The region's headline inflation or the overall inflation slowed down further to 4.4 percent in August 2023 from 4.6 percent in July 2023. This is the sixth consecutive month of deceleration in the headline inflation and the lowest since April 2022…
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PSA Technical Session on Mineral Asset Accounts and Field Visit in the City of Masbate

 

The Philippines Statistics Authority Regional Statistical Services Office V (RSSO V) conducted a 3-day Technical Session on Mineral Asset Accounts and Field Visit in Masbate on August 14 – 16 2023. The technical session was a hybrid set-up where…
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Consumer Price Index for All Income Households in Region V July 2023. (2018=100)

 

The region’s headline inflation or the overall inflation slowed down further to 4.6 percent in July 2023 from 5.3 percent in June 2023. This is the fifth consecutive month of deceleration in the headline inflation and the lowest since April 2022…
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Ethnicity in Bicol Region (2020 Census of Population and Housing)

 

More than three in every four (78.8%) of the 6,067,290 million household population in 2020 reported Bikol/Bicol as their ethnicity. Other major ethnicities were Masbateño/Masbatenon (10.5%), Bisaya/Binasaya (2.7%), Tagalog (2.5%), Cebuano (1.8%)…
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Housing Characteristics in Bicol Region (2020 Census of Population and Housing)

 

Based on the 2020 Census of Population and Housing (2020 CPH), a total of 1,478,159 housing units were listed regionwide. Of this total, 1,342,578 housing units were occupied by households/household population as of 01 May 2020. In 2015, out of the…
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