Areas	International		Actual										Plan Targets
of Concern	Commitment	Indicator/s	1990	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	95	96	97	98	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
												(April)
5. Employment	Pursue	Labor Force	64.4	65.8	66.7	66.3	66.1	66.6	64.875	67.075	66.2	67.1
	employment-intensive	Participation Rate
	patterns of growth and	Male	82.5	82.1							84.5	82
	investment	Female	47	48.8							55.3	52.2
		Employment Rate		90.5	91.4	91.3	89.9	90.3	88.825	88.875	86.1	87.8
		Agriculture			41.7	40.4	39.9	39.1	37.4	37.4	37.4	36.7
		Industry							*16	*15.6	*15.4	*16
		Manufacturing			10	9.9	9.5	9.6	10.1	9.6	9.4	9.5
		Services							46.5	47	47.2	47.4
		Unemployment rate	8.3	9.5	8.6	8.7	10.1	9.7	11.175	11.125	13.9	12.2				10.1	9.95	9.59	9.51	9.07	8.29	7.98
		Male									13	11.9
		Female									15.2	12.6
		Underemployment rate	21.4	20	21	22.1	21.8	22.3	21.7	17.175	19.6	15.6
		Male
		Female
		Overseas deployment		760,091		747,696	831,643	837,020	841,628	866,590	891,908/a	198,368
		Male
		Female
		Opportunities for work /b
		a. employment-population					60.047	60.699	58.450	60.438	60.535
		ratio
		b. unemployment-					6.763	6.513	7.261	7.466	7.695
		population ratio
		Unacceptable work /b
		a. school participation rate					84.287	83.886	84.361	87.768	87.136
		of children 10-17 years
		old
		b. employment rate of					75.447	78.395	71.536	77.150	78.249
		children 10-17 years old
		Productive work /b
		a. percent of employed					42.146	42.452	41.877	39.265	38.161
		working 40-48 hours/wk
		b. low hourly pay rate
		c. underemployment rate	21.4	20	21	22.1	21.621	22.086	21.692	17.17	16.995	15.6
		Male
		Female
		d. percent of employed in					22.068	21.570	24.020	21.471	22.227
		excessive hours of work
		49 hours and over/week
		Security of work /b
		a. percent of employed with					77.248	78.232	77.146	77.658	78.302
		permanent employment
		b. percent of employees					35.381	35.007	37.478	42.687
		covered with social
		security schemes
		c. percent of employed with					22.752	21.768	22.854	22.342	21.698
		temporary employment
		Equity in work /b
		a. female/male hourly basic								1.020	0.980
		pay ratio
		b. female/male hours of					0.996	0.991	1.009	1.023	1.021
		work ratio
		c. female-male ratio in					0.819	0.827	0.839	0.814	0.823
		non-agricultural wage
		employment
		Dignity at work /b
		a. union density rate					31.944	30.863	31.236	30.307	30.282
		b. collective bargaining					4.817	4.417	4.074	3.842	4.325
		coverage rate
		c. mandays lost due to					11.367	6.939	11.393	18.727	14.917
		strikes and lockouts per
		employees
	Support the informal	Number of		10,005	10,326	10,352	10,468	10,792	10,183	10,924	11,646	11,654
	sector especially in rural	own-account workers
	areas, by revising laws,	or self-employed
	encouraging its
	development, providing	Cooperative banks	61	67		69				80.7	83.6											51
	infrastructure and support	tapped as secondary																				banks
	services, supporting	conduits of LBP and other
	NGOs & encouraging	financial institutions in
	loans to the sector	extending credit to
		cooperatives of
		marginalized sectors
		electrification levels
		(barangays)
	Support small-farm							&nbs