TABLE 7  Employed Persons by Number of Hours Worked During the Past Week: October 2003
         and October 2004
        (Details may not add up to totals due to rounding.)

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                                                 October 2004 |          October 2003
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Number of Hours Worked                      Number            |     Number
                                        (Thousands)   Percent | (Thousands)   Percent
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Philippines                                 31,377      100.0       31,182      100.0

  At  work                                  30,815       98.2       30,801       98.8

     Worked less than 40 hours              11,032       35.2       10,892       34.9

         Less than 20 hours                  4,087       13.0        3,793       12.2
         20 - 29 hours                       3,527       11.2        3,440       11.0
         30 - 39 hours                       3,418       10.9        3,658       11.7

     Worked 40 hours and over               19,783       63.0       19,909       63.8

         40 - 48 hours                      12,431       39.6       12,841       41.2
         49 and over                         7,352       23.4        7,068       22.7

  With a job, not at work                      562        1.8          381        1.2

  Mean hours worked                           41.7                    41.6

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

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

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