TABLE 5.  NUMBER OF EMPLOYED PERSONS BY CLASS OF WORKER AND REGION:  JANUARY 2001
          (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                            28,087     14,407    10,450     3,229

N C R        -    Metro Manila                3,679      2,748       828       104
C A R        -    Cordillera Admin. Region      525        188       217       120
Region I     -    Ilocos                      1,532        620       666       246
Region II    -    Cagayan Valley              1,162        529       423       210
Region III   -    Central Luzon               2,720      1,669       877       175
Region IV    -    Southern Tagalog            4,140      2,472     1,353       314
Region V     -    Bicol                       1,775        735       760       280
Region VI    -    Western Visayas             2,295      1,232       845       218
Region VII   -    Central Visayas             2,025        971       853       201
Region VIII  -    Eastern Visayas             1,386        510       654       221
Region IX    -    Western Mindanao            1,096        420       498       178
Region X     -    Northern Mindanao           1,217        510       457       250
Region XI    -    Southern Mindanao           2,035        986       783       267
Region XII   -    Central Mindanao              957        404       412       141
Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao            713        116       448       149
Caraga                                          830        297       377       156

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Note: Estimates for all quarters use 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