TABLE 6. NUMBER OF EMPLOYED PERSONS BY CLASS OF WORKER AND REGION: APRIL 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                                  28,301   14,328  10,585   3,387

N C R        -    Metro Manila                      3,666    2,684     856     126
C A R        -    Cordillera Admin. Region            571      183     240     148
Region I     -    Ilocos                            1,575      694     639     242
Region II    -    Cagayan Valley                    1,269      538     521     210
Region III   -    Central Luzon                     2,685    1,631     910     144
Region IV    -    Southern Tagalog                  3,755    2,167   1,317     270
Region V     -    Bicol                             1,954      761     874     319
Region VI    -    Western Visayas                   2,429    1,294     880     254
Region VII   -    Central Visayas                   2,106    1,036     766     304
Region VIII  -    Eastern Visayas                   1,448      630     603     215
Region IX    -    Western Mindanao                  1,173      473     529     170
Region X     -    Northern Mindanao                 1,197      506     423     268
Region XI    -    Southern Mindanao                 1,946      928     768     251
Region XII   -    Central Mindanao                    925      348     402     176
A R M M      -    Muslim Mindanao                     707      120     463     123
CARAGA                                                896      335     394     166

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