PHILIPPINE LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT INDICATORS

OCTOBER 2020 LABOR FORCE SURVEY

With Impacts of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Community Quarantine
Percent Distribution of Employed by Sector

24.5% 26.3% 22.8% 18.3% 18.8% 19.1%

57.2% 54.8% 58.1%
Services Agriculture Industry
Oct Jul Oct Oct Jul Oct Oct Jul Oct
2020 2020 2019 2020 2020 2019 2020 2020 2019

Percent Distribution of Employed Top 5 Subsectors with Largest gain in Employment

by Major Occupation Group
Oct 2020 Oct 2019
23.2% 5.4%
5.2% 5.0%
Managers 9.0% 11.3% 2.5%
Professionals 6.0% 6.1%
Technicians and associate 4.1% 4.0%
professional
Clerical support workers 6.2% 6.6%
Service and sales workers 19.6% 18.7% Water Supply;sewerage, Fishing Information Administrative and
waste management and and Education and support service
Skilled agricultural, forestry and 14.2% 11.7% remediation activities Aquaculture Communication activities
fishery workers Oct
Craft and related trades workers 7.3% 7.7% 2020 70K 1.3M 1.5M 453K 1.7M
Plant and machine operators and 7.9% 8.1% Oct 57K 1.3M 1.4M 432K 1.7M
assemblers 2019
Elementary Occupations 25.6% 25.7%
Armed Forces Occupations 0.2% 0.2% Top 5 Subsectors with Largest drop in Employment

Percent Distribution of Employed Arts, Accomodation R E A L E S TAT E

Transportation
Entertainment and and Real estate Manufacturing
by Class of Worker: Oct 2020 Recreation food service activities and storage
activities
Employer in own family- Oct
operated farm or business 4.9% 2020 214K 1.3M 176K 2.8M 3.0M
Worked without pay
3.3% in own family-operated Oct
346K 2.0M 237K 3.5M 3.6M
farm or business 2019

Class -18.9% -17.0%

of -33.2% -25.7%
Worker
-38.2%
62.5% 29.3%
Wage and salary Self-employed without any
workers paid employee Top Reasons for the Employed but not at Work
Oct 2020 Jul 2020
Mean Hours Worked 1 ECQ/Lockdown/COVID-19 pandemic 38.2% 80.8%
2 Personal/Family Reasons 10.9% 2.4%
3 Health/Medical Limitations 9.0% 4.0%
40.8 38.2 42.0
4 Poor business condition 8.6% 2.0%
5 Variable working time/Nature of work 7.6% 3.1%
Oct 2020 Jul 2020 Oct 2019

Notes:
Percent Distribution of Employed by Hours Worked (In one week)
Estimates for October 2020 and July 2020 are
Oct 2020 Jul 2020 Oct 2019 preliminary and may change.
Worked less than 33.1% 40.6% 30.0% Preliminary estimates for October 2020 and
40 hours July 2020 and revised estimates for October 2019
are based on the 2015 CPH-based Population
Worked 40 hours 65.9% 56.1% 69.3% Projection.
and over “M” refers to Million, “K” refers to Thousand
With a job,
not at work 1.0% 3.3% 0.8% Icons made by freepik.com

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