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

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                                                July 2005 |                  July 2004
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Highest Grade Completed               Number              |       Number
                                  (Thousands)     Percent |   (Thousands)      Percent
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Philippines                            2,715        100.0          4,186         100.0

No Grade Completed                        15          0.6            105           2.5

Elementary                               394         14.5            855          20.4
   Undergraduate                         175          6.4            406           9.7
   Graduate                              219          8.1            450          10.7

High School                            1,219         44.9          1,800          43.0
   Undergraduate                         328         12.1            591          14.1
   Graduate                              891         32.8          1,209          28.9

College                                1,086         40.0          1,426          34.1
   Undergraduate                         537         19.8            681          16.3
   Graduate                              549         20.2            744          17.8

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

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

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