Statistics

by Paul Sutton, Mar 17, 2017 Our economy and society ultimately depend on natural resources: land, water, material (such as metals) and energy. But some scientists have recognised that there are hard limits to the amount of these resources we can use. It is our consumption of these resources that is behind environmental problems such…

by John Pullinger, Jan. 31, 2017 Statisticians can now amass more data more quickly than ever. This could help us to make decisions based on real numbers, not prejudice

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by James Watkins, Dec. 19, 2016, http://www.ozy.com/provocateurs/the-man-behind-the-most-important-chart-of-2016/74283 Because he can explain the appeal of Trump, Bernie, Brexit and all the rest of it in one chart. You may know the name Thomas Piketty. His work launched him to prime time as the “rock star economist”; his sultry French accent and general attractiveness, of course, helped.…

After settling essential living expenses, Filipinos spend on holidays, home improvements, and out-of-home entertainment, the results of a Nielsen survey show

MANILA, Philippines – Credit Suisse has warned the Philippines’ trade data may be under-recorded due to smuggling and this may mean current account surplus is actually smaller than what is officially reported.

MANILA, Philippines – The government will hold a second nationwide survey this summer to identify the poorest of the poor families.

The year 2013 was one of the nation’s worst in terms of misfortunes. But it did not fade Filipinos’ sunny outlook, judging from a survey at the end of last year. While Filipinos remain optimistic that their lives will improve in the next 12 months, their outlook on the economy dipped slightly in the fourth…

Walter Friedman, director of the Business History Initiative at Harvard Business School, on the pioneers of market prediction. For more, read his book, Fortune Tellers: The Story of America’s First Economic Forecasters.

America has changed the way it measures GDP ECONOMICS is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity…

MANILA – If you love math, data, and crunching numbers, a P35,000-plus monthly salary awaits you. The amount is the median monthly salary that statisticians get in the Philippines, according to Jose Ramon Albert, secretary general of the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB).

The annual growth of workers’ average pay in major industries was faster at 4.9 percent year-on-year in the third quarter of 2012 as growth in total compensation and gross revenue outpaced that of employment.

MANILA, Philippines – Do you know how much land area the Philippines covers or where the 3.5 million coconut farmer-beneficiaries of the coco levy funds are located? Chances are, your guess is as good as the government’s. The government has struggled completing a database of key statistics about the Philippines due to lack of funds.

OCTOBER BEING National Statistics Month, it is particularly timely to give credit where it is due: to the Philippine Statistical System (PSS) in general, and the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) in particular, for doing a great job — and I use the word “great” advisedly — in spite of the tremendous financial and personnel…

QUEZON CITY, Oct 2 (PIA) — The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) yesterday unveiled the Community-Based Employment Program (CBEP) Website and Online Monitoring System that houses the name, demographic profile, occupation, employment duration, and income of every CBEP beneficiary throughout the Philippines, in line with the celebration of the National Statistics Month.

The Philippines since time immemorial has shown its vulnerability and subservience to the variations and fluctuations in the price of oil products. Our submissiveness to the price

Whenever results of private surveys would come up with favorable statistics, Malacaang considers the data as reflective of the Aquino administrations commitment to help alleviate poverty in the country but not this time, not the Social Weather Station (SWS).

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Labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) condemned yesterday the lowering of the daily poverty threshold by the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) from P52 to P46 per person for the base year of 2009, saying the move shows the Aquino government’s refusal to address the widespread poverty and hunger in the country.

THE National Statistics Office (NSO) on Tuesday said it has revised the base year and weights for the consumer price index (CPI) to ensure that the key measure reflects the current situation.

When the new Social Weather Stations survey showed that more Filipinos were experiencing hunger and poverty under his administration, P-Noy couldn’t believe what he was hearing. The nationwide survey that covered 1,200 respondents from March 4 to 7 showed that 20.5 percent of the families polled said they experienced hunger, and that 51 percent considered…

“There are three kinds of lies—lies, damned lies, and statistics,” wrote the 19th century American author and humorist Mark Twain, popularizing an aphorism mouthed by many in his day. The line may well apply to some modern-day surveys and how they are made to say things or make judgments they are never meant to do.

THE GOVERNMENT yesterday launched a regular effort to improve data collection and dissemination for countryside development, this time with third-party users like the private sector in mind.

Using a revised computing method, the number of poor Filipinos is expected to significantly drop when data covering the Aquino administration start to filter in simply by reducing the computation of those under poverty line from those earning P41 per person per day to just P37 per person per day. The amount is supposedly the…

Do we Filipinos care about our kind and ourselves? Mull over these statistics, and form your own conclusion:

An interesting – and, despite its serious content, amusing — duel has developed between Rigoberto Tiglao and Dr. Bernardo Villegas in the pages of the Inquirer. Initially, rather than either mentioning the other’s name, they were like two battleships exchanging salvos from either side of the horizon.

The government yesterday denied allegations that it manipulated population data to support a controversial family planning campaign in one of the world’s most populous Roman Catholic nations.

The World Bank on Monday said it has approved a grant to support the Philippines’ statistical system for the next seven years. In a statement, the Washington-based lender said the $150,000 grant will support the formulation of the Philippine Statistical Development Program (PSDP) for 2011 to 2017.

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