EMPLOYMENT RATE RECORDED AT 92.

6 PERCENT in JANUARY 2011 Results from the January 2011 Labor Force Survey (LFS) Philippines January 2011 1/ January 2010 60,207 64.5 92.7 7.3 19.7

Population 15 years and over (in 61,532 '000) Labor Force Participation Rate 63.7 (%) Employment Rate (%) 92.6 Unemployment Rate (%) 7.4 Underemployment Rate (%) 19.4

The January 2011 Labor Force Survey (LFS) placed the employment rate at 92.6 percent. This figure is not significantly different from the estimate reported in January last year, which was 92.7 percent. The regions that posted high employment rates in January 2011 were Cagayan Valley and Zamboanga Peninsula, each registering a rate of 96.9 percent, SOCCSKSARGEN, 96.8 percent, Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), 96.1 percent, and MIMAROPA, 95.7 percent. The National Capital Region (NCR) had the lowest employment rate at 88.0 percent. The January 2011 LFS placed the size of the labor force at approximately 39.2 million persons out of the estimated 61.5 million population 15 years old and over, resulting in the labor force participation rate (LFPR) of 63.7 percent. Among the regions, MIMAROPA registered the highest labor force participation rate at 70.0 percent while the lowest was posted in ARMM at 55.7 percent. Of the estimated 36.3 million employed persons in January 2011, the services sector was the largest group comprising more than half (52.5%) of the total employed population. The largest employed workforce in the services sector were in wholesale and retail trade, repair of motor vehicles, motorcycles and personal and household goods (20.0% of the total employed). Workers in the agriculture sector accounted for 32.9 percent of the total employed, with those engaged in the agriculture, hunting and forestry sub-sector making up the largest sub-sector (29.0% of the total employed). Only 14.5 percent of the total employed were in the industry sector, with the manufacturing sub-sector making up the largest percentage (8.1% of the total employed). Among the various occupation groups, the laborers and unskilled workers comprised the largest group making up 31.7 percent of the total employed persons in January 2011. Farmers, forestry workers and fishermen were the second largest group, accounting for 16.0 percent of the total employed. Employed persons fall into any of these categories: wage and salary workers, own account workers and unpaid family workers. Wage and salary workers are those who work for private households, private establishments, government or government corporations and those who work with pay in own-family operated farm or business. The majority (54.7%) of the total employed population in January 2011 were wage and salary workers, with the largest percentage (40.9%) working for private establishments. Those working for the government/government controlled corporations accounted for only 8.1 percent and those working for private households, 5.3 percent. Self-employed workers without any paid employee constituted 30.4 percent of the total employed while employers in own-family operated farm or business made up 3.6 percent share. The unpaid family workers accounted for 11.3 percent of the total employed. Employed persons are classified as either full-time workers or part-time workers. Full-time workers are those who work for 40 hours or more while part-time workers work for less than 40 hours. Of the total employed persons in January 2011, 62.4 percent were working full time while 36.3 percent were part-time workers. Employed persons who express the desire to have additional hours of work in their present job, or to have additional job, or to have a new job with longer working hours are considered underemployed. The number of underemployed persons in January 2011 was estimated at 7.1 million placing the underemployment rate at 19.4 percent. About 60.5 percent of the total underemployed persons were working less than 40 hours during the reference week. Such type of underemployed workers are classified as visibly underemployed. Those working for 40 hours or more accounted for 37.0 percent. The underemployed in the agriculture sector accounted for

44.8 percent of the total underemployed, those in the services sector at 40.4 percent and in the industry sector at 14.8 percent. The unemployment rate in January 2011 was estimated at 7.4 percent. There were more unemployed males (62.7% of all unemployed) than females (37.3%). Almost half (48.9%) of the unemployed were in age group 15-24 years. More than one third (35.1%) of the unemployed were high school graduates, and almost two-fifth (39.1%) reached college education.

2010 ANNUAL LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT STATUS (Comparative annual estimates for 2009 and 2010)

Philippines 2010 Population 15 years and over (in '000) 60,718 Labor Force Participation Rate (%) 64.1 Employment Rate (%) 92.7 Unemployment Rate (%) 7.3 Underemployment Rate (%) 18.7

2009 59,237 64.0 92.5 7.5 19.1

The annual employment rate or the percentage of the labor force who were employed in 2010 was 92.7 percent. This rate was calculated using the average estimates of employed persons and persons in the labor force from the four rounds of the quarterly Labor Force Survey (LFS) conducted in 2010. Last year s employment rate was 92.5 percent. Among regions, Cagayan Valley, Zamboanga Peninsula and Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) posted employment rates of more than 96 percent. The National Capital Region (NCR) registered the lowest employment rate of 88.5 percent. Of the estimated 36.0 million employed persons in 2010, more than half (51.8%) were engaged in services and about one-third (33.2%) were in agriculture. Most of those who worked in the services sector were into wholesale and retail trade, repair of motor vehicles, motorcycles and personal and household goods (19.5% of the total employed). Of the total employed persons, the laborers and unskilled workers comprised the largest group (32.3%). This was followed by farmers, forestry workers and fishermen (16.0%); officials of government and special interest organizations, corporate executives, managers, managing proprietors and supervisors (13.8%); and service workers, shop and market sales workers (10.6%). The rest of the major occupation groups each comprised less than 10 percent ranging from 0.4 percent to 7.7 percent. The majority (54.4%) of the employed were wage and salary workers, most of whom were in private establishments (40.4% of the total employed). Thirty percent were self-employed without any paid employee, four percent were employer in own family-operated business or farm while nearly 12 percent worked without pay in own family-operated farm or business. More than half (63.5%) of the total employed were full time workers or have worked for at least 40 hours per week. On the average, employed persons worked 41.7 hours a week in 2010. The number of underemployed workers in 2010 was 6.8 million, representing an annual underemployment rate of 18.7 percent. Underemployed workers are persons who express the desire to have additional hours of work in the present job, or to have an additional job, or to have a new job with longer working hours. The lowest underemployment rate was observed in Central Luzon (9.1%) while the highest was noted in Bicol Region (36.8%). About 2.9 million Filipinos were unemployed in 2010 representing an unemployment rate of 7.3 percent for the year. The unemployed persons who have attained high school accounted for 45.2 percent of all unemployed. The proportion of unemployed males was greater than that of their female counterparts (63.3% compared to 36.7%).

The labor force population or those who are either employed or unemployed reached 38.9 million resulting to an annual labor force participation rate (LFPR) of 64.1 percent. Among regions, Northern Mindanao had the highest annual LFPR of 69.8 percent. PHILIPPINE POPULATION WENT UP BY 12 MILLION PERSONS (Results from the 2007 Census of Population)

Total population grew by 2.04 percent annually As of August 1, 2007, the Philippines had a total population of 88,566,732 persons, an increase of 12,062,655 persons over the May 1, 2000 population count of 76,504,077 persons. The 2007 census figure is almost twelve times the Philippine population in 1903 (7,635,426 persons), when the first census was conducted. The increase in Philippine population translated to an average population growth rate (PGR) of 2.04 percent annually during the period 2000 to 2007. The annual PGR recorded during the period 1995 to 2000 was 2.36 percent. The household population of the country in 2007 was 88,304,615 persons, higher by 11,991,134 persons from the household population of 76,313,481 persons in 2000. The number of households, meanwhile, increased by 21.4 percent from 15,275,046 in 2000 to 18,539,769 in 2007. The average household size in 2007 was 4.8 persons, lower than the average household size of 5.0 persons in 2000. More than half of the population resided in Luzon Luzon, which is composed of eight regions, comprised more than half (56.2 percent) of the country's total population. It was followed by Mindanao (24.4 percent) which has six regions and Visayas (19.4 percent) which has three regions. Among the 17 regions in the Philippines, Region IV-A (CALABARZON) had the biggest population size in 2007. It had a total population of 11,757,755 persons comprising 13.3 percent of the country's total population. It was followed by the National Capital Region (NCR) with 11,566,325 persons (13.1 percent) and Region III (Central Luzon) with 9,709,177 persons (11.0 percent). When combined, these three regions comprised 37.3 percent of the total population of the Philippines. The least populated region was the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) with 1,520,847 persons or 1.7 percent of the country's total population.

TOTAL POPULATION OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION INCREASED BY 1.6 MILLION PERSONS (Results from the 2007 Census of Population)

Annual population growth rate was 2.12 percent The total population of the National Capital Region (NCR) was 11,566,325 persons as of August 1, 2007, based on the 2007 Census of Population (POPCEN 2007). This figure is higher by 1,633,765 persons over the population count of 9,932,560 persons in 2000. The population count of the region in the years 2000 and 2007 translated to an average annual population growth rate of 2.12 percent for the period 2000-2007. The number of households reached 2,601,094, which was 468,105 more than the number of households reported in 2000. The average household size in 2007 was 4.4 persons, lower than the average household size of 4.6 persons in 2000. NCR was the second largest populated region among the 17 regions in the country, next to Region 4A. It contributed a share of 13.1 percent to the total population of 88.6 million persons in the Philippines in 2007. Quezon City was the most populated city Among the 16 highly urbanized cities and one municipality in the NCR, the most populated was Quezon City with 23.2 percent share to the region's total population. This was followed by the cities of Manila (14.4 percent) and Caloocan (11.9 percent). The municipality of Pateros had the least share of 0.5 percent. Almost Nine Out of Ten Filipinos Are Functionally Literate

(Final Results from the 2008 Functional Literacy and Mass Media Survey)

Fifty-eight million of the estimated 67 million Filipinos 10 to 64 years old are functionally literate, according to the results of the 2008 Functional Literacy, Education and Mass Media Survey (FLEMMS). In this survey, a functionally literate person is one who can read, write and compute or one who can read, write, compute and comprehend. Persons who completed high school or a higher level of education are also considered functionally literate. The 2008 FLEMMS revealed a functional literacy rate of 86.4 percent; in the 2003 FLEMMS the estimate was 84.1 percent. Among the regions, NCR has the highest functional literacy rate at 94.0 percent, followed by CALABARZON (93.5 percent) and Central Luzon (92.1 percent). ARMM has the lowest functional literacy rate (71.6 percent). The functional literacy rate among females is higher than among males (88.7 percent vs. 84.2 percent). As expected, functional literacy rate is higher among persons with higher level of education. Among those who had reached but did not finish high school, 89.8 percent were functionally literate and of those who had finished elementary, 80.8 percent were functionally literate. By comparison, 67.0 percent of those with some elementary education were functionally literate, while only five percent among those with no formal education were functionally literate. The 2008 FLEMMS is the fourth in a series of functional literacy surveys conducted by the National Statistics Office. The previous rounds were conducted in 1989, 1994, and 2003. In the 2008 FLEMMS, a selfadministered questionnaire was accomplished by 69,482 individuals aged 10 to 64 years in 25,505 households sampled for the survey. The survey aimed to provide information on basic and functional literacy status and exposure to mass media of the population. The 2008 FLEMMS was conducted in coordination with the Literacy Coordinating Council (LCC) and the Department of Education (DepEd).

Official population count reveals...

88.57 million Filipinos in 2007 Final results of the latest Census of Population (POPCEN 2007) conducted by the National Statistics Office (NSO) placed the Philippine population at 88,574,614 persons as of August 1, 2007. Said results down to barangay level were made official with the signing by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo of Proclamation No. 1489 on April 16, 2008. The total population of the Philippines in 2000 (based on the 2000 Census of Population and Housing) was 76.50 million while it was recorded at 68.62 million in 1995 (based on the 1995 Mid-Decade Census). Census Year 2007 2000 1995 Census Reference Date August 1, 2007 May 1, 2000 September 1, 1995 Philippine Population (in millions) 88.57 76.50 68.62

Lowest population growth rate recorded since the 1960s The 2007 and 2000 census figures translated into an average annual population growth rate of 2.04 percent for the period 2000 to 2007. As shown below, it was the lowest annual population growth rate recorded for the Philippines since the 1960s Reference Period 2000-2007 1990-2000 1980-1990 1970-1980 1960-1970 Average Annual Population Growth Rate for the Philippines (in percent) 2.04 2.34 2.35 2.75 3.01

The projected average annual population growth rate for the period 2005 to 2010 was 1.95 percent. This projection was based on the 2000 Census of Population and Housing. Calabarzon, NCR, and Central Luzon comprise more than one-third of total population By region, Calabarzon (Region IV-A) had the largest population with 11.74 million, followed by the National Capital Region (NCR) with 11.55 million, and Central Luzon (Region III) with 9.72 million. The combined population of these three regions comprised more than one-third (37.3 percent) of the Philippine population. Twelve regions have growth rates lower than the national figure Twelve of the country's 17 administrative regions have growth rates lower than the national figure. The other five regions had higher growth rates, namely, NCR (2.11%), Region III (2.36%), Region IV-A (3.21%), Region XII (2.41%), and ARMM (5.46%). Cavite's 2.86 million population tops other provinces Among provinces, Cavite had the largest population with 2.86 million. Bulacan was second with 2.83 million, and Pangasinan came in third, with 2.65 million. Five other provinces surpassed the two million mark: Laguna (2.47 million persons); Cebu, excluding its three highly urbanized cities - Cebu City, Lapu-lapu City, and Mandaue City (2.44 million persons); Negros Occidental, excluding Bacolod City (2.37 million persons); Rizal (2.28 million persons); and Batangas (2.25 million persons) On the other hand, three provinces reportedly had less than 100 thousand population, namely, Batanes (16 thousand persons); Camiguin (81 thousand persons); and Siquijor (88 thousand persons). Four highly urbanized cities (HUCs) record more than one million population Of the 32 highly urbanized cities (HUCs), only four had qualified for the Millionaires Club. Three of such HUCs were in the NCR: Quezon City (2.68 million), Manila (1.66 million), and Caloocan City (1.38 million). The other HUC which qualified for the Millionaires Club was Davao City with a population of 1.36 million. About 40,000 fieldworkers were deployed by the NSO during the nationwide census taking last year. The population counts proclaimed by the President as official for all purposes were based on census questionnaires from the different barangays all over the country. These questionnaires were processed in Regional Data Processing Centers adopting a new technology which involved digital imaging and intelligent character recognition. The Census was conducted pursuant to Batas Pambansa Blg. 72 and Commonwealth Act 591.