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

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                                                July 2007 |                  July 2006
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Highest Grade Completed               Number              |       Number
                                  (Thousands)     Percent |   (Thousands)      Percent
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Philippines                            2,824        100.0          2,918         100.0

No grade completed                        22          0.8             21           0.7

Elementary                               404         14.3            443          15.2	  
   Undergraduate                         192          6.8            193           6.6
   Graduate                              211          7.5            250           8.6

High school                            1,285         45.5          1,365          46.8	
   Undergraduate                         398         14.1            396          13.6
   Graduate                              887         31.4            968          33.2

College                                1,113         39.4          1,089          37.3 
   Undergraduate                         563         19.9            560          19.2
   Graduate                              550         19.5            529          18.1

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

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

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