TABLE 10   Unemployed Persons by Highest Grade Completed: January 2006 and January 2007
          (Details may not add up to totals due to rounding.)

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                                             January 2007 |               January 2006
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Highest Grade Completed               Number              |       Number
                                  (Thousands)     Percent |   (Thousands)      Percent
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Philippines                            2,850        100.0          2,837         100.0

No Grade Completed                        19          0.7             14           0.5

Elementary                               504         17.7            431          15.2
   Undergraduate                         238          8.4            179           6.3
   Graduate                              266          9.3            252           8.9

High School                            1,324         46.5          1,293          45.6	 
   Undergraduate                         385         13.5            379          13.4
   Graduate                              939         32.9            914          32.2

College                                1,002         35.2          1,100          38.8	 
   Undergraduate                         539         18.9            592          20.9
   Graduate                              463         16.2            508          17.9

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

Source:  National Statistics Office, January 2006 and January 2007 Labor Force Survey

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