TABLE 10  Unemployed Persons by Highest Grade Completed: July 2003 and July 2004
          (Details may not add up to totals due to rounding.)

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                                          July 2004 |                  July 2003
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Number of Hours Worked          Number              |        Number
                           (Thousands)      Percent |   (Thousands)      Percent
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Philippines                      4,186        100.0           4,373        100.0

No grade completed                 105          2.5             103          2.4

Elementary                         856         20.4             936         21.4
  Undergraduate                    406          9.7             448         10.2
  Graduate                         450         10.8             488         11.2

High school                      1,800         43.0           1,827         41.8
  Undergraduate                    591         14.1             633         14.5
  Graduate                       1,209         28.9           1,194         27.3

College                          1,425         34.0           1,506         34.4
  Undergraduate                    681         16.3             777         17.8
  Graduate                         744         17.8             729         16.7

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Note: Figures were estimated based on the 2000 Census of Population Projections.

Source: National Statistics Office, July 2003 and July 2004 Labor Force Survey

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