TABLE 6.  NUMBER OF EMPLOYED PERSONS BY CLASS OF WORKER AND REGION: JANUARY 2000
          (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                       28,895       14,171       10,800        3,924

N C R      -  Metro Manila               3,636        2,727          790          119
C A R      -  Cordillera Admin. Region     571          177          233          161
Region I   -  Ilocos                     1,591          646          658          288
Region II  -  Cagayan Valley             1,302          579          501          222
Region III -  Central Luzon              2,803        1,633          928          242
Region IV  -  Southern Tagalog           3,859        2,191        1,361          308
Region V   -  Bicol                      2,027          792          842          393
Region VI  -  Western Visayas            2,558        1,334          939          285
Region VII -  Central Visayas            2,121          962          859          300
Region VIII-  Eastern Visayas            1,487          543          690          255
Region IX  -  Western Mindanao           1,129          430          507          192
Region X   -  Northern Mindanao          1,292          519          478          295
Region XI  -  Southern Mindanao          1,935          866          760          309
Region XII -  Central Mindanao             977          390          388          199
A R M M    -  Muslim Mindanao              702          106          434          162
CARAGA                                     906          276          434          196

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