EMPLOYMENT in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) decreased from 96.6% in July 2017 to 95% in July 2018.
By industry, services sector employs the most with 44.7%, followed by agriculture at 41.3 % and industry with 14.1.
Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) in Cordillera also reported 61.3% of the region’s total work force are males with 802,000 while 38.7% were females.
PSA added there was an increase in the number of employed males in the region by 1.8 %.
“The increase in males corresponded to the decrease in the percentage of employed females in the region,” the PSA report noted.
Agriculture and forestry continued to be the biggest employer in the region with 41.1% share while the wholesale and retail trade, repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles ranked as the second largest sub-industry group with 11.9% of the total employed persons.
Manufacturing shared only 3.3% of the total employed persons in the region considering that the sub-industry group contributes the most to the regional economy.
In July 2018, the labor force survey showed CAR’s labor force participation rate of persons whose age is 15 years old and over was 63.1% or about 801,000 individuals.
Among the employed persons, more than a third have high school education, 36.6% had junior high school education of which 22.4% graduated while 14.1% did not graduate.
Percentage of employed persons in with no education or grade level completed was 2.03%. This level said PSA had the lowest incidence of employment in the region.
Meanwhile, underemployment rate in the region was 18%, with 9.8% of the underemployed persons already worked 40 hours per week and over or those invisibly underemployed.
Unemployment rate in the region increased by 1.6 percentage points, from 3.4% in July 2017 to 5.0% in July 2018.
PSA-CAR said the unemployed male population accounted for 66.1% of the total unemployed persons in the region, while 33.9% were unemployed females.
The labor force survey (LFS) provides a snapshot or the stock of economically active persons in the country at a point or reference period.
PSA said the survey aims to monitor the changes in the employment status of persons in the working age population (employed, unemployed and not in the labor force) during a specified period using the labor force framework.