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

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

Total                         4,399     100.0   3,567     100.0   3,900     100.0   5,001     100.0   4,207     100.0

No Grade Completed              105       2.4      86       2.4      97       2.5     100       2.0     106       2.5

Elementary                      951      21.6     718      20.1     850      21.8   1,003      20.1     869      20.7
  Undergraduate                 456      10.4     337       9.4     402      10.3     470       9.4     415       9.9
  Graduate                      495      11.3     381      10.7     448      11.5     533      10.7     454      10.8

High School                   1,826      41.5   1,501      42.1   1,675      42.9   2,161      43.2   1,793      42.6
  Undergraduate                 634      14.4     514      14.4     600      15.4     817      16.3     594      14.1
  Graduate                    1,192      27.1     987      27.7   1,075      27.6   1,344      26.9   1,199      28.5

College                       1,517      34.5   1,261      35.4   1,279      32.8   1,736      34.7   1,439      34.2
  Undergraduate                 782      17.8     624      17.5     663      17.0     950      19.0     687      16.3
  Graduate                      735      16.7     637      17.9     616      15.8     786      15.7     752      17.9

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 July 2004 are preliminary results and are subject to change.

Page last updated:  September 15, 2004
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