PSA Central Visayas Website

The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) for the first time conducted a regional dissemination forum on the 2018 Full Poverty Statistics across the country. The PSA Central Visayas held its forum on 28 January 2020 at Mezzo Hotel, Cebu City where government agencies, the academic community, the private sector, media and other stakeholders were invited. Assistant National Statistician Wilma Guillen of PSA Central Office presented the Methodology in generating the poverty statistics for the participants to understand and appreciate more the result. The data inputs for poverty estimation are: (1) Provincial food bundles developed by the Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI); (2) Price data for agricultural and non-agricultural commodities collected by PSA; and (3) Income data of Filipino families of 5 members and per capita from the Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES), also collected by PSA. Read more about 2018 Poverty Incidence among Families in Central Visayas decrease at 11.5 percent.

 

Region VII reported a total of 12,781 death occurrences in the first quarter of 2019. This contributed to about 8 percent of the 152,688 total registered deaths in the country. Moreover, Central Visayas ranked fifth in terms of number of death occurrence registered. (See Figure 1) Read more about Statistics on Registered Deaths and Marriages Occurrence in Central Visayas, First Quarter 2019.

 

Central Visayas’ inflation further accelerated to 2.2 percent in December 2019. Inflation in November 2019 was recorded at 1.1 percent, and in December 2018, 5.3 percent (Table A). Read more about December 2019 Consumer Price Index (CPI), Inflation Rate (IR), Purchasing Power of Peso (PPP) of Central Visayas.

 

The 2019 Functional Literacy, Education and Mass Media Survey (FLEMMS) presents a comprehensive statistics on the latest status of literacy, education, and mass media exposure of Filipinos nationwide. Though conducted every five years, it is the only survey in the country that focuses more on education, literacy and mass media exposure. It brings together a wide range of information that serves as a guide for government policy makers, program planners, and decision makers in providing a much broader scope of action and more focused program intervention on the target beneficiaries of development plans. Read more about PSA RSSO VII conducts 2nd Level Training on the 2019 FLEMMS Machine Processing.