Unemployed Filipinos increased to 2.04M in April —PSA

The number of Filipinos without jobs or livelihoods continued to increase for the second straight month in April as the ongoing effects of El Niño phenomenon affected labor demand, especially in the agriculture sector, according to the results of the Philippine Statistics Authority’s latest Labor Force Survey .At a press conference on Thursday, PSA chief and National Statistician Claire Dennis Mapa said the number of jobless individuals, ages 15 and above, rose to 2.

The services sector remained as the top sector in terms of number of employed, accounting for 61.4% of the total employed individuals during the period.The agriculture and industry sectors, meanwhile, accounted for 20.3% and 18.3% of the employed persons in April, respectively.The LFS survey also showed that wage and salary workers had the largest share of employed persons with 63.6%, followed by self-employed persons without any paid employee at 27.9% and unpaid family workers at 6.5%.

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