The number of unemployed Filipinos in April dropped to 7.5 percent from 8 percent last year, the National Statistics Office said Tuesday. The employment rate, on the other hand, for April was 92.5 percent.
Among the various occupation groups, laborers and unskilled workers comprised the largest proportion with 32.5 percent of the total employed population in April 2009 and 32.7 percent in April 2008. Farmers, forestry workers and fishermen were the second largest group, accounting for 17.0 percent of the total employed.
More than half or 51.9 percent of the employed persons were wage and salary workers, more than one-third or 34.9 percent were own-account workers, and 13.1 percent were unpaid family workers. (PNA)
