TABLE 6.  NUMBER OF EMPLOYED PERSONS BY CLASS OF WORKER AND REGION: JANUARY 1999
          (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                            28,368    13,888    10,607     3,873

N C R        -    Metro Manila                3,647     2,732       782       133
C A R        -    Cordillera Admin. Region      541       161       230       150
Region I     -    Ilocos                      1,549       640       646       263
Region II    -    Cagayan Valley              1,276       532       492       252
Region III   -    Central Luzon               2,695     1,585       897       213
Region IV    -    Southern Tagalog            3,811     2,166     1,342       302
Region V     -    Bicol                       1,993       781       847       366
Region VI    -    Western Visayas             2,539     1,280       942       316
Region VII   -    Central Visayas             2,067       945       813       309
Region VIII  -    Eastern Visayas             1,469       524       690       255
Region IX    -    Western Mindanao            1,098       411       479       207
Region X     -    Northern Mindanao           1,254       489       452       313
Region XI    -    Southern Mindanao           1,933       857       756       319
Region XII   -    Central Mindanao              946       365       400       181
A R M M      -    Muslim Mindanao               679       127       413       140
CARAGA                                          873       293       425       155

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