Where the numbers come from
Every figure on Konteksto is fetched from a public source on a schedule, stored in our own archive, and served from there, pages never invent or estimate numbers. Check any of it yourself:
| What | Source | How often | Verify |
|---|---|---|---|
| USD:PHP + ASEAN currencies | European Central Bank reference rates via Frankfurter | Daily (business days) | link |
| Inflation, monthly (headline, core, food, rice) | PSA OpenSTAT, 2018-based CPI (tables 0012M4ACP23 / 31) | Monthly, after each PSA release | link |
| Inflation, annual + international | World Bank, FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG (since 1960) | Updated with the monthly job | link |
| Fuel, weekly per-liter change (the DOE-prescribed Tuesday adjustment) | Five independent sources, tried in priority order and cross-checked: (1) GasWatch PH, (2) official brand/DOE advisories via trusted press (GMA, Inquirer, Philstar, TopGear…), (3) fuelprice.ph (also supplies brand ranges), (4) DOE Oil Monitor (authoritative), (5) press search fallback. Any >±₱0.50 disagreement alerts us automatically. | Weekly (Tuesday) | link |
| Next-week fuel projections | Publicly reported industry/DOE projections (GMA News, Inquirer, Philstar, et al.), each call links its article | Thu/Fri + Monday confirmation | link |
| Crude trading lean | Dubai crude benchmark from the fuelprice.ph live ticker, a public proxy for direction, not MOPS | Weekly (with the Tuesday fuel pull) | link |
For newsrooms & AI, machine-readable
- /api/latest.json, every current headline number in one fetch (CORS-open, CC-BY).
- /api/series/{id}, full time series for any metric.
- /feed.xml, RSS of the newest commentary per metric.
- /llms.txt, a guide for AI assistants. Every page also embeds schema.org Dataset JSON-LD.
- /embed, drop a live, auto-updating number on your own site in one snippet (with attribution back here).
Notes
- Ingestion is automated and monitored; if a source breaks, we get paged the same hour.
- Peso display convention: arrows track the USD:PHP rate (▲ = rate up); colors track what it means for the peso (green = peso stronger, red = peso weaker); the words always say it outright.
- Fuel prices are national reference advisories, provincial pumps typically run ₱5–₱25/L higher.
- Konteksto is independent and non-commercial: not affiliated with the DOE, PSA, BSP, or any oil company.
- Spotted a wrong number? Report a data error, include the page and the figure, and we'll trace it to its source.