TABLE 10   Unemployed Persons by Highest Grade Completed: April 2004 and April 2005	
          (Details may not add up to totals due to rounding.)

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                                               April 2005 |                 April 2004
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Highest Grade Completed               Number              |       Number
                                  (Thousands)     Percent |   (Thousands)      Percent
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Philippines                            2,912        100.0          4,991         100.0

No Grade Completed                        27          0.9            100           2.0

Elementary                               460         15.8            992          19.9 
   Undergraduate                         201          6.9            464           9.3
   Graduate                              259          8.9            528          10.6

High School                            1,279         43.9          2,168          43.4 
   Undergraduate                         418         14.4            820          16.4
   Graduate                              861         29.6          1,348          27.0

College                                1,146         39.4          1,732          34.7
   Undergraduate                         609         20.9            951          19.1
   Graduate                              537         18.4            781          15.6

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

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

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