TABLE 6.  NUMBER OF EMPLOYED PERSONS BY CLASS OF WORKER AND REGION: OCTOBER 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                            29,003      14,394      10,813       3,796

N C R        -    Metro Manila                3,720       2,814         802         104
C A R        -    Cordillera Admin. Region      563         164         239         161
Region I     -    Ilocos                      1,608         713         637         259
Region II    -    Cagayan Valley              1,299         576         494         229
Region III   -    Central Luzon               2,781       1,689         904         188
Region IV    -    Southern Tagalog            3,959       2,306       1,342         311
Region V     -    Bicol                       2,001         808         841         352
Region VI    -    Western Visayas             2,588       1,265         996         328
Region VII   -    Central Visayas             2,073         941         860         273
Region VIII  -    Eastern Visayas             1,528         534         709         285
Region IX    -    Western Mindanao            1,115         448         499         167
Region X     -    Northern Mindanao           1,290         513         476         301
Region XI    -    Southern Mindanao           1,923         839         762         322
Region XII   -    Central Mindanao              942         362         401         179
A R M M      -    Muslim Mindanao               697         117         420         161
CARAGA                                          916         306         431         178

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