TABLE 6.  NUMBER OF EMPLOYED PERSONS BY CLASS OF WORKER AND REGION: JULY 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                            29,055    14,022    10,944     4,090

N C R        -    Metro Manila                3,660     2,749       793       118
C A R        -    Cordillera Admin. Region      559       160       226       173
Region I     -    Ilocos                      1,590       654       657       279
Region II    -    Cagayan Valley              1,295       570       490       235
Region III   -    Central Luzon               2,783     1,641       926       216
Region IV    -    Southern Tagalog            3,891     2,194     1,380       317
Region V     -    Bicol                       1,993       791       850       351
Region VI    -    Western Visayas             2,566     1,243       980       343
Region VII   -    Central Visayas             2,130       944       846       339
Region VIII  -    Eastern Visayas             1,532       542       697       294
Region IX    -    Western Mindanao            1,137       421       514       202
Region X     -    Northern Mindanao           1,318       482       509       326
Region XI    -    Southern Mindanao           1,986       859       787       339
Region XII   -    Central Mindanao              976       359       418       200
A R M M      -    Muslim Mindanao               707       111       426       170
CARAGA                                          932       302       443       186

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