Philippines - Producer Price Survey for Manufacturing 2008

Philippines Producer Price Survey for Manufacturing 2008

Enterprise/Establishment Survey In 1980, studies on the generation of the producer price index (PPI) started when the Index of Physical Volume of Production series being generated by the then Central Bank of the Philippines (now Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas) was discontinued. This came about because of the transfer of responsibility of operations and processing of the Monthly Survey of Establishments (MSE) for manufacturing from the Central Bank to the National Census and Statistics Office (now the National Statistics Office- NSO). earliest version of the MISSI is entitled as SKEM (Survey of Key Enterprises in Manufacturing), which had its inception in 1981 as a project of the National Accounts Staff of National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA). Initially, indicators/indices generated by the SKEM had 1981 as the base period. In 1986, the responsibility for the SKEM was transferred to the National Census and Statistics Office (now the National Statistics Office-NSO).

Work on the original PPI started with 1978 as the base year and was later revised to 1985. The source of data for the PPI was the then Monthly Survey of Establishments (MSE) for Manufacturing. The MSE has a rider questionnaire, which asked for data on production of major products of the sample establishmnets. However, the PPI were never released as official statistics. It was later felt that the components of the PPI were no longer reflective of the prevailing production structure of the manufacturing sector that the PPI operations were halted.

In 1992-1993, the compilation of the PPI with 1992 as the base year was revived in a project "Improvement of the Producer Price Index of Selected Manufactured Products" through the Grants-in-Aid Program of the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB). The NSO with guidance from the Technical Committee on Price Statistics of NSCB worked for further improvements to the PPI to make it more reflective of the actual situation of the manufacturing sector. The conduct of the Producer Price Survey started in 1992 as the source of data for the PPI. Starting with this new base year, the PPI was officially released simultaneous with the SKEM indicators. (The SKEM was later renamed to MIISI).

In 2001, the NSO released the rebased series of the PPI with 1994 as the new base year. The 1992 - based series continued on until December 2001 and was discontinued the year after. The 1994-based series had January 1998 as its earliest series.

In 2005, Rebasing of PPI series to base year 2000 started and it was in August 2007 when this new base period was released in parrallel with the 1994-based series. The 2000-based series had January 2001 as its earliest series. Beginning January 2008, the 1994-based series was discontinued.

ID Number PHL-NSO-PPI-2008-v1.0

The 2008 PPS covers manufacturing establishments with average total employment of 20 and over. The following items of data are gathered from the respondent establishment:

I. Name of product/s

II. Brand Name

III.Product Specification

IV. Unit of Measure

V. Producer price/s of selected products

The geographic domain is the whole country.

Manufacturing establishments with total employment of 20 and over

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation	Role
Ma. Thelma G. Lofranco	TGL	National Statistics Office	Documenter
Dulce A. Regala	DAR	National Statistics Office	Reviewer

2010-06-22 Version 1.0 (March 2010)

DDI-PHL-NSO-PPS-2008-v1.0