TABLE 6.  NUMBER OF EMPLOYED PERSONS BY CLASS OF WORKER AND REGION:  JULY 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                                28,178   14,472  10,444   3,261

N C R        -    Metro Manila                    3,631    2,716     800     115
C A R        -    Cordillera Admin. Region          548      196     225     127
Region I     -    Ilocos                          1,597      691     635     271
Region II    -    Cagayan Valley                  1,266      566     477     223
Region III   -    Central Luzon                   2,635    1,627     832     175
Region IV    -    Southern Tagalog                3,840    2,269   1,307     263
Region V     -    Bicol                           1,951      810     863     279
Region VI    -    Western Visayas                 2,470    1,320     895     255
Region VII   -    Central Visayas                 2,064      995     833     236
Region VIII  -    Eastern Visayas                 1,508      580     690     239
Region IX    -    Western Mindanao                1,110      443     497     170
Region X     -    Northern Mindanao               1,210      519     456     235
Region XI    -    Southern Mindanao               1,879      927     733     220
Region XII   -    Central Mindanao                  894      374     374     146
A R M M      -    Muslim Mindanao                   693      109     424     159
CARAGA                                              883      330     403     150

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