Composition of NSO unique unemployment – proportions of working age population who is available but do not actively look for work because of the five reasons listed above – is shown in Table A2. In the Philippines, 42 percent of the individuals in working age who are not employed but do not look for a job are discouraged worker – they do not search for jobs because of their beliefs that there is no work available for them; 24 percent are in job transition; 10 percent are the temporarily disabled; 22 percent are the temporarily laid-off; and 2 percent do not look for jobs because of bad weather. These proportions vary across regions. For example, less than 30 percent of those who were available but did not look for jobs in NCR were discouraged; while the ratio is 47 percent in Mindanao. This may imply nuances in different policy challenges to improve labor market performance at the regional level.

**<u>Table A1: Comparison of the ILO and NSO Employment and Unemployment</u>**

||**Empl**<br>**active**|**ILO**<br>**oyment**<br>**popula**|**(to**<br>**tion**|<br>**Unemp**<br>**particip**|**ILO**<br>**loymen**<br>**ation r**|**t (to**<br>**ate)**|<br>**Empl**<br>**active**|**NSO**<br>**oyment**<br>**populat**|**(to**<br>**ion**|<br>**Unem**<br>**(to pa**|**NSO**<br>**ploym**<br>**rticipa**|**ent**<br>**tion**|**NSO's**<br>**unique**<br>**unemployed**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Mean|%Δ||Mean|%Δ||Mean|%Δ||Mean|%Δ||(%)|
|**Manila Metropolitan Area**|**53.3**|**-0.42**||**8.0**|**0.38**||**51.9**|**-0.23**||**12.3**|**0.2**||**37.2%**|
|NCR|53.3|-0.42||8.0|0.38||51.9|-0.23||12.3|0.2||37.2%|
|**Luzon**|**59.0**|**-2.24**||**3.0**|**-0.2**||**57.5**|**-2.21**||**6.8**|**0.19**||**53.6%**|
|I: Ilocos|57.1|-2.51|***|2.2|1.16|***|54.9|-2.42|***|6.8|0.54||68.2%|
|II: Cagyas|65.8|-1.99|**|0.9|0.55|**|64.0|-2.12|**|2.4|0.67|**|61.6%|
|III: Central Luzon|55.4|-3.09|***|4.6|-0.5|*|53.9|-3.15|***|8.7|1.07|**|49.6%|
|IVA: CALABARZON|57.1|-1.35|*|4.8|-0.85|***|55.7|-1.17|*|9.1|-1.21|***|50.3%|
|IVB: MIMAROPA|65.9|-2.53|**|1.6|0.35||64.9|-2.34|**|3.4|1.07|**|52.5%|
|V: Bicol|63.1|-2.3|***|2.0|-0.39|*|61.8|-2.52|***|4.4|0.31||57.1%|
|CAR|62.0|-0.81||1.7|-0.54|*|60.9|-0.54||4.0|-0.07||58.7%|
|**Visayas**|**61.5**|**-2.59**||**2.4**|**0.01**||**59.8**|**-2.36**||**5.8**|**0.17**||**59.5%**|
|VI: Western Visayas|61.4|-4.19|***|2.2|0.45||59.3|-3.93|***|5.6|1.37|***|62.4%|
|VII: Central Visayas|59.5|1.13|**|3.4|-0.46|*|58.0|1.32|**|6.9|-0.48|*|52.9%|
|VIII: Eastern Visayas|64.8|-5.64|***|1.5|-0.25||63.5|-5.37|***|4.5|-1.16|***|68.9%|
|**Mindanao**|**62.5**|**-1.5**||**2.0**|**-0.3**||**61.7**|**-1.48**||**4.5**|**-0.18**||**55.3%**|
|IX: Zamboanga Peninsula|62.1|-1.24||1.2|-0.14||61.3|-1.47||3.1|-0.63|******|61.5%|
|X: Northern Mindanao|68.7|-3.13|***|2.3|0.79|*|67.7|-2.74|***|4.7|1.36|***|53.5%|
|XI: Davao|62.5|-0.47||3.2|-1.14|***|61.4|-0.56||5.6|-1.04|***|44.6%|
|XII: SOCCSKARGEN|62.4|-2.01|*|2.3|-0.79|***|61.4|-2.11|*|5.2|-0.82|***|57.2%|
|ARMM|52.9|-0.41||1.0|-0.26||52.7|-0.27||3.5|-0.12||70.7%|
|XIII: Caraga|64.5|-1.13||1.6|-0.25||63.3|-1.12||4.1|0.02||62.7%|
|**Philippines**|**59.5**|**-1.84**||**3.1**|**-0.12**||**58.1**|**-1.76**||**6.8**|**0.08**||**50.9%**|

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