TABLE 10   Unemployed Persons by Highest Grade Completed: January 2005 and January 2006
               (Details may not add up to totals due to rounding.)

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                                             January 2006 |               January 2005
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Highest Grade Completed               Number              |       Number
                                  (Thousands)     Percent |   (Thousands)      Percent
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Philippines                            2,837        100.0          4,015         100.0

No Grade Completed                        14          0.5             98           2.4

Elementary                               431         15.2            846          21.1
   Undergraduate                         179          6.3            418          10.4
   Graduate                              252          8.9            428          10.7

High School                            1,292         45.6          1,733          43.2
   Undergraduate                         379         13.3            552          13.7
   Graduate                              914         32.2          1,181          29.4

College                                1,100         38.8          1,337          33.3
   Undergraduate                         592         20.9            673          16.8
   Graduate                              508         17.9            664          16.5

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

Source:  National Statistics Office, January 2005 and January 2006 Labor Force Survey

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