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Labor Force Participation Rate, Employment Rate, Unemployment Rate and Underemployment Rate, Philippines: January 2005 to August 2024
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Contact and information

Information

Unit
in percent
Contact
Labor Supply Statistics Division
Philippine Statistics Authority
PSA Headquarters, East Avenue, Quezon City
Tel:(+632)83762092
iesd.staff@psa.gov.ph
Latest update
10/8/2024
Update frequency
Montly/Quarterly
Next update
11/6/2024
Survey
Labor Force Survey
Creation date
3/1/2021
Source
Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA)
Matrix
1B3ALFS0
Footnotes

Footnotes

Notes:
1. Starting April 2005 round of the Labor Force Survey, the unemployment definition was revised to include the availability criterion.
2. The 2000 Census Population Projection was used for July 2003 to January 2016 LFS.
3. January 2014 - No conduct of LFS in Region VIII.
4. April 2014, July 2014 and October 2014 - No conduct of LFS in Leyte.
5. January 2015 and April 2015 - No conduct of LFS in Leyte.
6. The 2010 Census Population Projection was used for April 2016 to October 2019 LFS.
7. The 2015 POPCEN-Based Population Projection-OPTION 2 was used for January 2020 to October 2020 LFS.
8.Starting 2021, the Labor Force Survey is conducted monthly. However, the regular LFS rounds (January, April, July and October rounds) can provide reliable estimates at the regional level while the Special LFS rounds (February, March, May, June, August, September, November and December rounds) can only provide reliable estimate at the national level. In the annual estimates starting 2021, the estimates were derived by taking the average of all the LFS rounds from January to December..
9. January 2022 – No conduct of LFS in Surigao del Norte and Dinagat Island.
10. Starting July 2023, the 2023 GeoEnabled Master Sample was used for Labor Force Survey
11. Estimates for September 2023 to August 2024 are preliminary and may change.
12.Starting January 2023, the new structure of Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) includes provinces of Maguindanao del Sur and Maguindanao del Norte (previously Province of Maguindanao), Cotabato City and the eight cluster areas (63 barangays, previously from Province of Cotabato)