TABLE 6.  NUMBER OF EMPLOYED PERSONS BY CLASS OF WORKER AND REGION: APRIL 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                            29,492    14,224    10,803     4,465

N C R        -    Metro Manila                3,720     2,727       830       163
C A R        -    Cordillera Admin. Region      595       171       240       184
Region I     -    Ilocos                      1,622       682       641       298
Region II    -    Cagayan Valley              1,322       582       476       264
Region III   -    Central Luzon               2,769     1,645       921       203
Region IV    -    Southern Tagalog            3,897     2,179     1,369       349
Region V     -    Bicol                       2,049       818       836       395
Region VI    -    Western Visayas             2,611     1,282       961       367
Region VII   -    Central Visayas             2,162       966       842       354
Region VIII  -    Eastern Visayas             1,554       578       679       297
Region IX    -    Western Mindanao            1,165       424       512       228
Region X     -    Northern Mindanao           1,343       494       474       375
Region XI    -    Southern Mindanao           2,004       873       782       350
Region XII   -    Central Mindanao              988       371       401       216
A R M M      -    Muslim Mindanao               746       113       420       212
CARAGA                                          948       319       419       210

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