Table 9.  Unemployed Persons by Highest Grade Completed:  April 2003 to April 2004
          (Details may not add up to totals due to rounding.)

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                            |    April 2003   |    July 2003    |  October 2003   |  January 2004   |    April 2004
Highest Grade               | Number          | Number          | Number          | Number          | Number
                            | ('000)  Percent | ('000)  Percent | ('000)  Percent | ('000)  Percent | ('000)  Percent
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Philippines

Total                         4,217     100.0    4,399    100.0    3,567    100.0    3,900    100.0    4,989    100.0

No Grade Completed               68       1.6      105      2.4       86      2.4       97      2.5      100      2.0

Elementary                      827      19.6      951     21.6      718     20.1      850     21.8    1,001     20.1
  Undergraduate                 402       9.5      456     10.4      337      9.4      402     10.3      469      9.4
  Graduate                      425      10.1      495     11.3      381     10.7      448     11.5      532     10.7

High School                   1,827      43.3    1,826     41.5    1,501     42.1    1,675     42.9    2,156     43.2
  Undergraduate                 718      17.0      634     14.4      514     14.4      600     15.4      814     16.3
  Graduate                    1,109      26.3    1,192     27.1      987     27.7    1,075     27.6    1,342     26.9

College                       1,494      35.4    1,517     34.5    1,261     35.4    1,279     32.8    1,732     34.7
  Undergraduate                 801      19.0      782     17.8      624     17.5      663     17.0      945     18.9
  Graduate                      693      16.4      735     16.7      637     17.9      616     15.8      787     15.8

Not Reported                      -         -        -        -        -        -        -        -        -        -

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

Notes:   *-less than 500
         Estimates for January 2004 are preliminary results and are subject to change.

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