Philippines - Commodity Flow in the Philippines 2017

Reference ID

PHL-PSA-CFP-2017-v2.0

Year

Country

Philippines

Producer(s)

Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) - National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA)

Sponsor(s)

Government of the Philippines - GOP - Full funding

Collection(s)

Statistics from Administrative Data Systems

Economic Statistics

Business

Commodity Flow in the Philippines

Metadata

Metadata in PDF

Created on

Sep 14, 2020

Last modified

Sep 14, 2020

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Overview

Identification

Country

Philippines

Title

Commodity Flow in the Philippines 2017

Study Type

Administrative Records, Other (ad/oth]

Series Information

The Commodity Flow in the Philippines is a compilation of data on commodities carried through the air, rail, and water transport systems in the country. It gathers information on the movement of commodity within the Philippines to enable policy makers to monitor domestic trade. This information may be used for the identification of the next growth areas in the country.

There are three (3) kinds of domestic trade statistics that can be generated, namely:

a. Coastwise Trade and Passenger Statistics

b. Air Trade Statistics

c. Rail Trade Statistics

On coastwise trade statistics, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) has been recording the movement of commodities by port of origin and port of destination based on the Bureau of Custom's coasting manifests (BC Form No. 78) since 1968. In March 1979, an integrated system for coastwise shipping statistics designed to efficiently and effectively collect, process and disseminate reliable domestic shipping of trade and port statistics from the Bureau of Customs (BC), Philippine Ports Authority (PPA), Maritime Industry Authority (MARINA), and the Ministry of Public Works, Transportation and Communication (MPWTC) was developed.

On air trade statistics, a data collection and processing system on commodities flowing through the air transport system was operationalized, and started with the documents from the Philippine Airlines (PAL), the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), and other domestic airlines in September 1977.

On rail trade statistics, a system for the collection and processing of rail commodity flow statistics from the Philippine National Railways (PNR) documents was used in 1978. PNR stopped their operation and no transaction was recorded since 2007.

Preliminary quarterly domestic trade statistics are released in the form of Special Releases 60 days after the reference quarter. On the other hand, the domestic trade publication is released four months after the reference year.

ID Number

PHL-PSA-CFP-2017-v2.0

Version

Version Description

v2.0: Final dataset, anonymized.

Production Date

2018-06-08

Overview

Abstract

The Commodity Flow in the Philippines is a compilation of domestic trade statistics which generates comprehensive statistics by mode of transport.

The domestic trade data contained the flow of goods through airports and seaports in the country, whether for government or private use, or for commercial purposes. Trade in land is excluded because of the absence of approach/system to capture such information. Since 2007, rail transport statistics are excluded due to the rehabilitation and upgrading of the Philippine National Railway (PNR). Coasting manifests are collected from major ports and other active seaports listed by the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) all over the country. On the other hand, Air Waybills are collected from all domestic airports operated by the Philippine Airlines (PAL) nationwide.

There are two kinds of domestic trade statistics in this report, namely:

a. Air Trade Statistics which are statistics that refer to the movement of commodities from one airport to another within the country through air transport system

b. Coastwise Trade and Coastwise Passenger Statistics which are statistics that refer to the flow of commodities/passenger from one port to another within the country through water transport system.

Documents collected from the provincial sales offices, stations, and collection points are sorted by port or station and by month; recorded; bundled and numbered by type of document, by port or station and by month. After which, the documents undergo manual and machine processing to ensure that all documents are checked/verified as to completeness and accuracy of entries.

The coasting cargo manifests contain information on port of origin, port of destination, area of occupancy, type of handling, description of commodity, weight, value, and freight charges. On the other hand, the Air Waybill contains the station of destination of the commodity, station of origin of the commodity, actual gross weight, declared value, equivalent volume weight, rate basis, rate class, description of commodity, issuing office, PAL charges, freight forwarder charges, and total freight charges. Only actual gross weight, declared value, description of commodity, station of origin, station of destination, and total freight charges are included in the domestic trade statistics.

Data on the inflow and outflow value of commodities in the different regions of the country are used to construct inter-regional and inter-industry relation tables. These serve as bases in the formulation and implementation of various regional development programs like countryside development and port planning.

Kind of Data

Administrative records data [adm]

Units of Analysis

Commodities traded within the Philippines

Scope

Notes

The Commodity Flow in the Philippines covers the following:

- Coastwise trade of all commodities and coastwise passenger volume in sixty-five (65) major ports and five hundred seventeen (517) municipal and private ports listed by Philippine Ports Authority (PPA).

- Air trade of all commodities in forty-six (46) Philippine Airlines operated domestic airports.

- Rail trade of all commodities in fifty-one (51) Philippine National Railways stations, with only twenty-seven (27) stations are operating (before 2004).

Data Items Gathered:

a. Port of origin

b. Port of destination

c. Area of occupancy

d. Type of handling

e. Description of commodity

f. Weight

g. Value

h. Freight charges

Topics

Topic	Vocabulary	URI
Transport	Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA)

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

National

Regional

Provincial

Producers and Sponsors

Primary Investigator(s)

Name	Affiliation
Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA)	National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA)

Other Producer(s)

Name	Affiliation	Role
Philippine Ports Authority	DOTr	Documents Sources

Funding

Name	Abbreviation	Role
Government of the Philippines	GOP	Full funding

Other Acknowledgements

Name	Affiliation	Role
Philippine Airlines		Documents Sources
Various Shipping Companies		Documents Sources

Metadata Production

Metadata Produced By

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation	Role
Trade Statistics Division	TSD	Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA)	Documenter
Assistant National Statistician	ANS, ESSS	Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA)	Reviewer

Date of Metadata Production

2020-07-24

DDI Document Version

Version 1.0- First metadata documentation of CFP 2017

DDI Document ID

DDI-PHL-PSA-CFP-2017-v1.0