TABLE 17   Unemployed Persons Looking for Work by Number of Weeks Looking for Work, by Sex, and Region:
           January 2006
          (In thousands. Details may not add up to totals due to rounding.)

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                                               |    Number of Weeks Looking for Work   | Mean Number
Sex and Region                           Total |---------------------------------------|    of Weeks
                                               |   Less |   4 - 9 | 10 - 19 |   20 and |     Looking
                                               | than 4 |         |         |     Over |    for Work
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Philippines

Both Sexes                               1,375      647       466       152        110           7.5

Male                                       812      385       276        83         68           7.8
Female                                     563      262       190        69         42           7.1

National Capital Region                    449      217       143        54         35           8.4
Cordillera Administrative Region            16        4         6         4          2           8.6
I - Ilocos Sur                              50       21        23         3          4           6.8
II - Cagayan Valley                         23       10         7         4          3          11.5
III - Central Luzon                        166       94        51        16          6           5.1
IV-A - CALABARZON                          208       89        65        25         28           8.8
IV-B - MIMAROPA                             29       18        10         1          1           4.0
V -  Bicol Region                           41       13        20         5          3           7.1
VI - Western Visayas                        72       30        19        11         11           9.4
VII - Central Visyas                        95       45        39         4          6           5.9
VIII - Eastern Visayas                      25       12         7         4          2           5.6
IX - Zamboanga Peninsula                    20        4         9         7         -            7.2
X - Northern Mindanao                       51       18        21         9          3           7.6
XI - Davao Region                           68       39        21         4          4           6.0
XII - SOCCSKSARGEN                          36       17        14         1          4           7.7
Caraga                                      16       11         4         1         -            3.6
Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao        12        4         7         1          1           7.5
   Mindanao

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Source:  National Statistics Office, January 2006 Labor Force Survey

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