TABLE 6.  NUMBER OF EMPLOYED PERSONS BY CLASS OF WORKER AND REGION:  OCTOBER 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                              27,775         13,827         10,483          3,465

N C R        -    Metro Manila                  3,542          2,668            793             84
C A R        -    Cordillera Admin. Region        517            177            203            136
Region I     -    Ilocos                        1,522            609            647            267
Region II    -    Cagayan Valley                1,101            494            416            190
Region III   -    Central Luzon                 2,731          1,599            901            231
Region IV    -    Southern Tagalog              4,086          2,406          1,390            290
Region V     -    Bicol                         1,737            646            771            320
Region VI    -    Western Visayas               2,320          1,189            865            267
Region VII   -    Central Visayas               2,049            948            853            247
Region VIII  -    Eastern Visayas               1,379            483            645            250
Region IX    -    Western Mindanao              1,067            418            470            179
Region X     -    Northern Mindanao             1,218            459            469            290
Region XI    -    Southern Mindanao             1,989            953            789            247
Region XII   -    Central Mindanao                958            380            419            159
A R M M      -    Muslim Mindanao                 723            113            465            145
CARAGA                                            837            284            386            167

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Note:  The October 2000 figures were estimated based on the 1995 Census-based Population Projection.

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