LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT

Labor Force Characteristics

Indicator Oct. 2018
Employment Rate 94.9
Underemployment Rate 13.3
Labor Force Participation Rate 60.6
Unemployment Rate 5.1

Latest Report from Labor Force Survey (LFS)

Employment Rate in January 2019 is Estimated at 94.8 Percent
March 7, 2019
The employment rate in January 2019 was estimated at 94.8%. In January 2018, the
employment rate was 94.7%.

More LFS Reports

January 30, 2019 Statistical Tables on Labor Force Survey
(LFS) July 2018
January 30, 2019 Employment Situation in July 2018
December 28, 2018 2018 Annual Labor and Employment
Status

Latest Report from Survey on Overseas Filipinos (SOF)

Statistical Tables on Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW): 2017

More SOF Reports

May 28, 2018 Statistical Tables on Overseas Contract
Workers (OCW): 2017
May 18, 2018 2017 Survey on Overseas Filipinos (Result
from the 2017 Survey on Overseas
Filipinos)
April 27, 2018 Total number of OFW’s Estimated at 2.3
Million (Result from the 2017 Survey on
Overseas Filipinos)
 Latest Report from Survey on Children (SOC)
Estimated Number of Working Children 5 to 17 Years Old Who Worked During the Past
Week was 3.3 Million (Final Results of the 2011 Survey on Children)

December 9, 2015
Based on the final results of the 2011 SOC, the estimated number of children aged 5 to 17
years who worked for at least one hour during the past week in October 2011 was 3.3
million. They accounted for 12.4 percent of the estimated 26.6 million children 5 to 17
years old in the country.

More SOC Reports

July 18, 2012 The number of working children 5 to 17
years old is estimated at 5.5 million
(Preliminary Results of the 2011 Survey on
Children)
May 2, 2012 NOS and ILO-IPEC set to present final
results of the latest survey on children
October 11, 2002 Statistics on Filipino Children (Result from
the 1995 National Survey on Working
Children)

LATEST TOPICS ABOUT LABOR EMPLOYMENT

Philippine labor force participation dips in January 2019
Some 387,000 Filipinos drop out of the country’s labor force, but the employment
rate slightly gets better in January 2019.

DOLE: Employers group to ‘regularize’ 220,000 workers starting

February
Labor groups slam the National Voluntary Regularization Plan to be inked by DOLE
and employers as a ‘grand scheme’ to foil the passage of the security of tenure bill.
IN NUMBERS: What you need to know about the Philippine labor sector
The employment rate in the country is at 94.7 as of January 2018

Over 140,000 vacancies in job fairs on May 1- DOLE

A total of 37 job fairs will be held in different parts of the country on Labor Day,
mostly in Metro Manila and Region 3, says the Department of Labor and Employment.

JobStreet 2018 report: Only 24% of employers willing to hire K to 12

graduates
According to JobStreet.com’s 2018 Fresh Graduate Report, 35% of employers are
not yet ready to hire K to 12 graduates, while 41% say their companies are still evaluating
it.

‘Exclusionary growth’ seen in big dip in PH employment in 2017

Ibon Foundation notes that this is the largest drop in the number of employed
Filipino’s since the aftermath of the 1997 Asian financial crisis’