TABLE 10   Unemployed Persons by Highest Grade Completed: 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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Highest Grade Completed               Number              |       Number
                                  (Thousands)     Percent |   (Thousands)      Percent
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Philippines                            4,015        100.0          3,880         100.0

No Grade Completed                        98          2.4             95           2.4

Elementary                               846         21.1            837          21.6
   Undergraduate                         418         10.4            395          10.2
   Graduate                              428         10.7            442          11.4

High School                            1,733         43.2          1,677          43.2
   Undergraduate                         552         13.7            599          15.4
   Graduate                            1,181         29.4          1,078          27.8

College                                1,337         33.3          1,271          32.8
   Undergraduate                         673         16.8            660          17.0
   Graduate                              664         16.5            611          15.7

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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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