TABLE 10   Unemployed Persons by Highest Grade Completed: 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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Highest Grade Completed               Number              |       Number
                                  (Thousands)     Percent |   (Thousands)      Percent
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Philippines                            3,870        100.0          3,542         100.0

No Grade Completed                        96          2.5             85           2.4

Elementary                               788         20.4            709          20.0
   Undergraduate                         377          9.7            331           9.3
   Graduate                              411         10.6            378          10.7

High School                            1,667         43.1          1,499          42.3
   Undergraduate                         527         13.6            512          14.5
   Graduate                            1,140         29.5            987          27.9

College                                1,318         34.1          1,250          35.3
   Undergraduate                         649         16.8            618          17.4
   Graduate                              669         17.3            632          17.8

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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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