Philippines: services industry underemployment rate

In 2018, about 13.2 percent of employees in the services industry in the Philippines were underemployed. By comparison, 17.1 percent of employees in the Philippines' industrial sector were underemployed.

Share of employees in the services industry who are underemployed in the Philippines from 2009 to 2018

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February 2021

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Region

Philippines

Survey time period

2009 to 2018

Supplementary notes

According to the source, the underemployment rate is the 'total employed who wanted additional work (wanted additional hours of work in their present job, or to have additional job, or a new job with longer working hours) as a percentage share of total employed'.

Annualized data for 2014 from the Labor Force Survey is the average of April, July and October survey rounds which excluded Leyte province. Annualized data for 2015 from the Labor Force Survey is the average of January, April, July and October survey rounds which excluded Leyte province. The use of the annualized 2015 LFS data using the four survey rounds was based on the result of the referendum conducted among members of the Inter-Agency Committee on Labor and Productivity Statistics. See Metadata of Statistical Indicators on Decent Work for definitions and other information.

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