TABLE 6.  NUMBER OF EMPLOYED PERSONS BY CLASS OF WORKER AND REGION:  OCTOBER 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                             30,090      14,751      11,256       4,083

N C R        -    Metro Manila                 3,919       2,803         995         122
C A R         -    Cordillera Admin. Region      560         196         213         152
Region I      -    Ilocos                      1,608         670         644         294
Region II     -    Cagayan Valley              1,218         510         463         245
Region III    -    Central Luzon               2,936       1,720         951         264
Region IV    -    Southern Tagalog             4,498       2,484       1,583         431
Region V     -    Bicol                        1,875         750         755         370
Region VI    -    Western Visayas              2,482       1,275         904         303
Region VII   -    Central Visayas              2,181         998         918         265
Region VIII  -    Eastern Visayas              1,510         523         689         298
Region IX    -    Western Mindanao             1,161         444         535         183
Region X     -    Northern Mindanao            1,254         499         449         306
Region XI    -    Southern Mindanao            2,140       1,014         825         301
Region XII   -    Central Mindanao             1,073         438         446         188
Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao             754         108         473         173
Caraga                                           920         319         412         188

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Note: Estimates for all quarters used 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