TABLE 6.  NUMBER OF EMPLOYED PERSONS BY CLASS OF WORKER AND REGION:  JANUARY 2002
          (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                             29,705      14,410     11,265     4,030

N C R        -    Metro Manila                 3,902       2,776        978       148
C A R        -    Cordillera Admin. Region       544         186        220       139
Region I     -    Ilocos                       1,543         621        647       275
Region II    -    Cagayan Valley               1,212         514        469       229
Region III   -    Central Luzon                2,878       1,662        963       254
Region IV    -    Southern Tagalog             4,420       2,418      1,583       419
Region V     -    Bicol                        1,810         711        744       355
Region VI    -    Western Visayas              2,504       1,300        889       315
Region VII   -    Central Visayas              2,161         984        928       249
Region VIII  -    Eastern Visayas              1,514         529        684       301
Region IX    -    Western Mindanao             1,162         415        559       187
Region X     -    Northern Mindanao            1,258         490        453       315
Region XI    -    Southern Mindanao            2,104         974        827       304
Region XII   -    Central Mindanao             1,069         419        451       200
Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao             754         104        480       170
Caraga                                           869         308        391       169

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