The unemployment fee within the Philippines decreased to five p.c within the Labor For Survey (LFS) accomplished in September, from 5.3 p.c in August, partly because of the begin of the educational yr that led to many working age Filipinos to decide out of the job market and go to highschool.
National Statistician Dennis Mapa stated in a briefing the variety of Filipinos of employment age and had been actively searching for a job however didn’t get employed decreased by 183,000 to 2.5 million from 2.68 million in August.
In September, there have been 50.08 million working-age Filipinos who do have jobs or had been searching for jobs.
This quantity is 470,000 lower than the 50.55 million individuals within the labor power recorded…
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