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

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                                             October 2005 |               October 2004
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Highest Grade Completed               Number              |       Number
                                  (Thousands)     Percent |   (Thousands)      Percent
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Philippines                            2,621        100.0          3,869         100.0

No Grade Completed                        18          0.7             96           2.5

Elementary                               398         15.2            788          20.4
   Undergraduate                         165          6.3            377           9.8
   Graduate                              233          8.9            411          10.6

High School                            1,190         45.4          1,667          43.1
   Undergraduate                         349         13.3            527          13.6
   Graduate                              841         32.1          1,140          29.5

College                                1,014         38.7          1,318          34.1
   Undergraduate                         501         19.1            649          16.8
   Graduate                              513         19.6            669          17.3

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

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

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