TABLE 6.  NUMBER OF EMPLOYED PERSONS BY CLASS OF WORKER AND REGION:  APRIL 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                             29,160     14,245     10,860     4,056

N C R        -    Metro Manila                 3,749      2,683        937       130
C A R        -    Cordillera Admin. Region       546        187        224       134
Region I     -    Ilocos                       1,541        624        650       267
Region II    -    Cagayan Valley               1,193        516        448       229
Region III   -    Central Luzon                2,852      1,673        941       238
Region IV    -    Southern Tagalog             4,287      2,448      1,466       374
Region V     -    Bicol                        1,813        702        762       348
Region VI    -    Western Visayas              2,351      1,245        848       258
Region VII   -    Central Visayas              2,041        929        874       237
Region VIII  -    Eastern Visayas              1,505        555        647       303
Region IX    -    Western Mindanao             1,132        409        502       221
Region X     -    Northern Mindanao            1,262        481        479       303
Region XI    -    Southern Mindanao            2,153        981        783       389
Region XII   -    Central Mindanao             1,059        419        436       204
Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao             789        109        474       206
Caraga                                           888        284        390       215

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Note: All estimates 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
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