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(Eagle News) — The employment rate in the country stayed at 94% in June, the Philippine Statistics Authority said. According to the PSA, the registered employment rate was higher than the 92.3 percent employment rate registered in the same period of 2021. The PSA said in terms of magnitude, 46.59 million Filipinos who are 15 years old and above were employed in June 2022, higher by 508,000 from the 46.08 million employed in May 2022. […]
(Eagle News) – Philippine employment rate grew in March 2022 at 94.2, the highest since April 2020 or a month after the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a global pandemic. “In terms of magnitude, an increase of 1.50 million employed persons was accounted from February 2022 (45.48 million) to March 2022 (46.98 million),” the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said. A total 1.64 million employed individuals were also added to the employed population of 45.33 […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippines’ unemployment rate was at 6.4 percent in February, the same rate registered the month before, the Philippine Statistics Authority reported. According to the PSA, this translates to 3.13 million unemployed individuals 15 years old and above. Meanwhile, the number of employed persons increased by 2.33 million, from 43.15 million in February 2021 to 45.48 million in the same month this year. Employment rate in February this year was at 93.6 […]
(Eagle News)–The employment rate in the country was at 91.9 percent in August, the Philippine Statistics Authority said on Thursday, Sept. 30. According to the PSA’s August 2021 Labor Force Survey, the 91.9 percent translates to 44.23 million people employed out of the 48.12 million individuals who comprise the labor force. The PSA said this was higher than the employment rate in April 2021–pegged at 91.3 percent– when the National Capital Region Plus Bubble was […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Labor and Employment on Friday, June 5, expressed hope the country’s labor force would recover with the resumption of economic activities amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III made the statement after a survey by the Philippine Statistics Authority found the country’s unemployment rate rose to a record-high 17.7 percent in April, equivalent to 7.3 million unemployed Filipinos. “As the economy opens gradually, we are hopeful that […]
(Eagle News) — Employment rate in January reached 94.7 percent, the Philippine Statistics Authority reported on Thursday, March 5. The PSA said this was the same as the rate recorded in January last year. According to the PSA, the Cordillera Administrative Region (97.2%), Region X-Northern Mindanao (96.8%), Region XII-SOCCSKSARGEN (96.7%), Region IX-Zamboanga Peninsula (96.5%), Region VII-Central Visayas (96.5%) and MIMAROPA Region (96.4%) registered the highest employment rates. Region I-Ilocos Region, Region IVA-CALABARZON had the lowest […]
(Eagle News)–The country’s underemployment rate in July has gone down to 13.9 percent. Based on data provided by the Philippine Statistics Authority on Thursday, Sept. 5, the rate is 3.3 percent less than the rate recorded on the same month last year. According to the PSA, employment rate was at 94.6 percent, the same rate recorded in July last year. The PSA said workers in the services sector comprised the largest proportion of the employed […]
(Eagle News)–The unemployment and underemployment rates in the country in January 2019 have gone down, the Philippine Statistics Authority said. According to results of the Labor Force Survey posted on the PSA website, the employment rate last month was at 5.2 percent, 0.1 percent less than the 5.3 percent registered in January 2018. According to the survey, Cagayan Valley and Western Visayas had the highest employment rates, at 96.9 percent and 96.1 percent respectively. The […]
(Eagle News) — Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque on Wednesday, May 2, noted the number of employed in the country increased to 41.8 million in January 2018, based on a study done by think-tank IBON Foundation. Roque made the clarification following reports, citing the IBON study, that the number of underemployed grew by 1.1 million in January 2018, from the 6.4 million recorded in January 2017. IBON said the underemployed now translates to 18 percent of the […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Nananatili pa rin ang Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry na pinakamalaking job generator ngayong 2017. Ayon sa PhilJobNet, halos nasa 140,000 job vacancies ang naitala mula sa BPO industry ngayong taon. Nanguna sa listahan ng job openings ang posisyon na call center agent kung saan naitala ang pinakamataas na job vacancies mula Agosto hanggang Setyembre. Ito ay umabot sa 21,986 at 21,858. Nasa kabuuang 133,300 call center agent positions ang […]
(Eagle News) — The employment rate in the country went up from last year’s figure, based on a recent Philippine Statistics Authority survey. The 94.3 percent employment rate based on this April’s results is 0.4 percentage points up from April 2016’s employment rate of 93.9 percent. From 6.1 percent in April 2016, unemployment rate also went down to 5.7 percent. According to the PSA, the labor force participation rate based on this year’s results was […]
