Total Unemployed

Unemployed - consists of persons in the labor force who are reported as (1) without work; and (2) currently available for work; and (3) seeking work or not seeking work because of the belief that no work is available, or awaiting results of previous job application, or because of temporary illness or disability, bad weather or waiting for rehire or job recall.

in Person
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Locations:
PHILIPPINES
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REMARKS

Definition of unemployment revised beginning April 2005 to include availability criterion in conformance with international standard.
Thus, data series beginning 2005 not strictly comparable with previous years.
2005 data refer to averages of the estimates for April, July and October.

SOURCE
Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA)
DATE MODIFIED
November 11, 2024