**<u>Table 6: Labor Market Performance Indicators by Regions</u>**

||**Wor**<br>**Pop**<br>**(**|**king Age**<br>**ulation**<br>**15+)**|**Wor**<br>**Popul**|**king Ag**<br>**ation (1**<br>**64)**|**e**<br>**5-**|**Wor**<br>**Popul**|**king Ag**<br>**ation (6**|**e**<br>**5+)**|**Par**|**ticipatio**<br>**Rate**|**n**|**Em**<br>**Rate (t**<br>**Age P**|**ploymen**<br>**o Work**<br>**opulati**|**t**<br>**ing**<br>**on)**|**Unem**<br>**R**<br>**Part**|**ploym**<br>**ate (to**<br>**icipati**|**ent**<br> <br>**on**|**Daily W**<br>**P**|**age (2**<br>**HP)**|**000**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Mean|%Δ|Mean|%Δ||Mean|%Δ||Mean|%Δ||Mean|%Δ||Mean|%Δ||Mean|%Δ||
|**NCR (Manila)**|**70.7**|**-0.07**|**67.3**|**0.16**||**3.4**|**-0.22**||**59.2**|**-0.12**||**51.9**|**-0.23**||**12.3**|**0.2**||**262.4**|**-2.5**||
|NCR|70.7|-0.07<br>***|67.3|0.16|***|3.4|-0.22|***|59.2|-0.12||51.9|-0.23||12.3|0.2||262.4|-2.5||
|**Luzon**|**66.3**|**0.53**|**61.7**|**0.62**||**4.6**|**-0.09**||**61.7**|**-2.24**||**57.5**|**-2.21**||**6.8**|**0.19**||**195.2**|**-2.7**||
|I: Ilocos|67.7|1.07<br>***|61.9|0.8|***|5.8|0.27|***|58.9|-2.25|*******|54.9|-2.42|***|6.8|0.54||176.4|-3.9||
|II: Cagayan Valley|68.7|1.09<br>***|63.8|1.26|***|4.9|-0.17|**|65.5|-1.72|**|64.0|-2.12|**|2.4|0.67|**|151.9|-7.4|**|
|III: Central Luzon|67.7|0.21<br>***|63.5|0.45|***|4.2|-0.23|***|59.0|-2.74|*******|53.9|-3.15|***|8.7|1.07|**|194.5|-4.4|**|
|IVA: CALABARZON|67.7|0.65<br>***|63.6|0.64|***|4.1|0.01|***|61.2|-2.09|*******|55.7|-1.17|*|9.1|-1.21|***|221.2|0.1||
|IVB: MIMAROPA|61.1|0.34<br>***|57.0|0.49|***|4.1|-0.14|**|67.2|-1.69||64.9|-2.34|**|3.4|1.07|**|168.0|-0.3||
|V: Bicol|60.6|-0.74<br>***|55.7|-0.32|**|4.9|-0.41|*|64.6|-2.43|*******|61.8|-2.52|***|4.4|0.31||167.7|-10.2|***|
|CAR|66.4|2.56<br>***|61.4|2.06|***|5.0|0.49|***|63.4|-0.6||60.9|-0.54||4.0|-0.07||226.0|-9.0|**|
|**Visayas**|**65.2**|**0.95**|**59.7**|**0.96**||**5.5**|**-0.02**||**63.5**|**-2.38**||**59.8**|**-2.36**||**5.8**|**0.17**||**157.4**|**-2.7**||
|VI: Western Visayas|66.5|1.23<br>***|60.6|1.25|***|5.9|-0.02|***|62.8|-3.24|*******|59.3|-3.93|***|5.6|1.37|***|141.1|0.8||
|VII: Central Visayas|66.6|0.5<br>***|61.4|0.48|***|5.2|0.01|***|62.3|1.08|*|58.0|1.32|**|6.9|-0.48|*|170.7|-3.2||
|VIII: Eastern Visayas|61.1|0.96<br>***|55.7|1|***|5.4|-0.05|***|66.5|-6.38|*******|63.5|-5.37|***|4.5|-1.16|***|166.8|-12.3|***|
|**Mindanao**|**63.9**|**-0.12**|**60.4**|**-0.08**||**3.6**|**-0.04**||**64.6**|**-1.67**||**61.7**|**-1.48**||**4.5**|**-0.18**||**164.6**|**-9.1**||
|IX: Zamboanga Peninsula|63.0|0.57<br>***|59.0|0.66|***|4.0|-0.09|**|63.2|-1.92|*|61.3|-1.47||3.1|-0.63|******|172.2|-20.4|***|
|X: Northern Mindanao|65.3|1.39<br>***|61.0|1.18|***|4.3|0.21|***|71.0|-1.86|**|67.7|-2.74|***|4.7|1.36|***|164.6|-7.2|**|
|XI: Davao|65.6|1.08<br>***|62.0|1.46|***|3.6|-0.37||65.1|-1.31||61.4|-0.56||5.6|-1.04|***|159.7|-6.9|**|
|XII: SOCCSKARGEN|64.2|0.79<br>***|61.0|0.8|***|3.2|-0.01|***|64.8|-2.79|*******|61.4|-2.11|*|5.2|-0.82|***|149.9|-7.7|***|
|ARMM|61.2|-5.82<br>***|59.5|-6.04|***|1.8|0.22|***|54.6|-0.35||52.7|-0.27||3.5|-0.12||232.7|-15.7|***|
|XIII: Caraga|63.1|0.56<br>***|58.6|0.37|***|4.5|0.18|***|66.0|-1.16||63.3|-1.12||4.1|0.02||170.7|-4.0||
|**Philippines**|**66.1**|**0.35**<br>***** **|**61.7**|**0.42**|*******|**4.4**|**-0.07**|***** **|**62.4**|**-1.82**|*******|**58.1**|**-1.76**|*******|**6.8**|**0.08**||**195.3**|**-3.5**|*******|

Source: LFS, 2003-2007

**Note:** Changes of active population rate, participation rate, employment and unemployment are measured as percentage changes over the 2003 – 2007 period. A change in mean daily wage is measured as the absolute change in PHP during the period.

Test statistics are shown for significance of change in each indicator during the 2003 – 2007 period. A positive sign of changes indicates that the level of the indicator is higher in 2007 than in 2003. *, **, and *** represent significance at 10 percent, 5 percent and 1 percent, respectively.

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