TABLE 6.  NUMBER OF EMPLOYED PERSONS BY CLASS OF WORKER AND REGION: JULY 1998
          (Values are in thousands. Details may not add up to totals due to rounding.)

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                                                     All         Wage and          Own          Unpaid
                  R E G I O N                    Classes of       Salary         Account        Family
                                                   Workers        Workers        Workers        Workers
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      PHILIPPINES                                   27,856         13,641         10,446          3,770

N C R        -    Metro Manila                       3,602          2,724            762            115
C A R        -    Cordillera Admin. Region             554            160            228            166
Region I     -    Ilocos                             1,541            589            664            288
Region II    -    Cagayan Valley                     1,204            485            495            223
Region III   -    Central Luzon                      2,666          1,585            875            207
Region IV    -    Southern Tagalog                   3,744          2,190          1,281            272
Region V     -    Bicol                              1,987            770            850            367
Region VI    -    Western Visayas                    2,490          1,225            944            322
Region VII   -    Central Visayas                    2,016            933            760            323
Region VIII  -    Eastern Visayas                    1,446            512            669            264
Region IX    -    Western Mindanao                   1,069            421            465            184
Region X     -    Northern Mindanao                  1,208            464            444            300
Region XI    -    Southern Mindanao                  1,900            832            786            281
Region XII   -    Central Mindanao                     901            355            387            160
A R M M      -    Muslim Mindanao                      676            111            430            136
CARAGA                                                 853            286            406            161

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Source: Labor Force Survey
        Income and Employment Statistics Division
        Household Statistics Department
        National Statistics Office
        Republic of the Philippines