Table A. Year-on-Year Inflation Rates for All Income Households: Philippines, MIMAROPA, and Palawan, All Items, In Percent
(2018=100)

The headline inflation in the province of Palawan accelerated at 2.6 percent in March 2025, from 0.3 percent in the previous month. In March 2024, inflation rate was recorded at 3.5 percent. (Table A and Figure 1)

The uptrend in the provincial inflation during the month was primarily brought by the higher index for food and non-alcoholic beverages, with 2.6 percent inflation from -1.7 percent in February 2025. This was followed by information and communication, which posted an inflation rate of 15.3 percent from 5.2 percent. Also contributing to the acceleration is the higher increment of restaurants and accommodation services, which registered a 7.2 percent inflation rate from 6.0 percent in the previous month.

Table B. Year-on-Year Inflation Rates for All Income Households in Palawan, 
All Items, In Percent
(2018=100)

Furthermore, higher inflation rates were also observed in the indices of the following; 
a)    Health, 3.0 percent from 1.0 percent; 
b)    Personal care and miscellaneous goods and services, 2.8 percent from 2.2 percent;
c)    Clothing and footwear, 1.5 percent from 1.3 percent;
d)    Alcoholic beverages and tobacco, 1.8 percent from 1.6 percent; 
e)    Transport, 1.7 percent from -0.7 percent;
f)    Recreation, sport, and culture, 1.1 percent from 0.7 percent;
g)    Furnishings, household equipment and routine household maintenance, 3.1 percent from 3.0 percent.

Meanwhile, slowdown in inflation rates were observed in housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels with 1.3 percent from 1.9 percent and transport with 0.7 percent from       1.7 percent.

On the other hand, education and financial services retained its February 2025 levels at zero percent inflation.
 

Table D. Year-on-Year Inflation Rates for All Income households in Palawan, 
All Items, In Percent, 
January 2022 – March 2025
(2018=100)
 

(SGD) DONNA MARIE D. MOBE
(Supervising Statistical Specialist)
Officer-In-Charge 
Palawan Provincial Statistical Office
 

MQV

Technical Notes

Consumer Price Index is an indicator of the change in the average prices of a fixed basket of goods and services commonly purchased by households relative to a base year.

•    Market Basket is a sample of goods and services, which is meant to represent the totality of all the goods and services purchased by households relative to a base year.
o    To determine the commodities that will form the market basket for the 2018-based CPI, the Survey of Key Informants (SKI) was conducted in March 2021. The survey, which was conducted nationwide to store managers, sellers or proprietors, obtained information on the most commonly purchased of goods and availed of services by the households.
o    The commodities in the 2018-based CPI market basket are grouped/classified according to the 2020 Philippine Classification of Individual Consumption According to Purpose (PCOICOP) which is based on the United Nations COICOP. Meanwhile, the commodities in the 2012-based CPI market basket used the 2009 PCOICOP version of classification of commodities.

•    Base year is a reference period, usually a year, at which the index number is set to 100. It is the reference point of the index number series. The CPI is rebased from base year 2012 to base year 2018.

•    Inflation Rate is the annual rate of change or the year-on-year change in the Consumer Price Index (CPI).