TABLE 7   Employed Persons by Number of Hours Worked During the Past Week:
          January 2004 and January 2005	
         (Details may not add up to totals due to rounding.)

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                                               January 2005 |          January 2004
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Number of Hours Worked                    Number            |     Number
                                      (Thousands)   Percent | (Thousands)   Percent
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Philippines                               31,277      100.0       31,173      100.0

  At  work                                30,794       98.5       30,761       98.7

     Worked less than 40 hours            11,137       35.6       10,907       35.0
         Less than 20 hours                4,132       13.2        3,947       12.7
         20 - 29 hours                     3,539       11.3        3,511       11.3
         30 - 39 hours                     3,465       11.1        3,449       11.1

     Worked 40 hours and over             19,657       62.8       19,854       63.7
         40 - 48 hours                    12,335       39.4       12,287       39.4
         49 and over                       7,322       23.4        7,567       24.3

  With a job, not at work                    484        1.5          412        1.3

  Mean hours worked                         41.4                    42.0

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

Source: National Statistics Office, January 2004 and January 2005 Labor Force Survey

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