U N E M P L O Y M E N T R A T E (u)

Employed are persons who are 15 years old

and over who during the reference period were
reported at work even for an hour.
Also included are:
Persons with a job or business even though not at work
because of temporary illness/injury, vacation or other leave
of absence, bad weather or strike/labor dispute or other
reasons. Likewise, persons who are expected to report for
work or to start operation of a farm or business enterprise
within two weeks from the date of the enumerator’s visit are
considered employed (future starts).
 FRICTIONAL STRUCTURAL CYCLICAL
It is due to frictions It is due to the It is due to the
in the economy structural changes cyclical changes in
caused by in the economy the economy,
changing market that eliminate particularly
conditions and some jobs and recession or
represented by create others for depression.
qualified which the
individuals with unemployed are
transferable skills unqualified.
who change jobs.
 Underemployed are the employed persons
who want additional hours of work in their
present job; or to have additional job; or a new
job with longer working hours.
Visibly Underemployed are the underemployed
persons who worked less than 40 hours during the
reference week.

Invisibly Underemployed are the underemployed

persons who worked 40 hours or more during the
reference week.
𝑳𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒓 𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒄𝒆 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒑𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑹𝒂𝒕𝒆
𝑳𝑭
= × 𝟏𝟎𝟎
𝑾𝑨𝑷

𝑬𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒐𝒚𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝑹𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝑼𝒏𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒐𝒚𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝑹𝒂𝒕𝒆

𝑬 𝑼
= × 𝟏𝟎𝟎 = × 𝟏𝟎𝟎
𝑳𝑭 𝑳𝑭
Indicators
Oct-17 Apr-17 Apr-16

ER 95 94.3 93.9

UdR 15.9 16.1 18.4

LFPR 62.1 61.4 63.6

UR 5 5.7 6.1
 In July 2017, the total population 15 years old and over
was estimated at 70.2 million wherein the number of
persons who were in the labor force was reported at
42.5 million. This placed the labor force participation
rate (LFPR) at 60.6 percent, which means that six in
ten of the population aged 15 years and over were
either employed or unemployed.
 Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) had the
highest reported LFPR with 64.5 percent while the
lowest LFPR reported was in Autonomous Region in
Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) at 46.5 percent
 The total number of employed persons was
estimated at 40.2 million. The employment rate
reported or the proportion of employed persons to
total labor force was 94.4 percent.
 Five of the 17 regions, namely: Ilocos Region
(91.8%), NCR (92.1%), Central Luzon (92.9%),
CALABARZON (93.0%) and Northern
Mindanao (94.3%) registered an employment
rate lower than the national figure.