Unemployment in the Philippines worsened to 6.6 percent in January from 5.7 percent a year earlier, when temporary jobs were created ahead of the May 2016 elections, the latest Labor Force Survey (LFS) showed.

This translates to 2.76 million jobless Filipinos in January 2017, compared with 2.46 million jobless in January 2016, LFS data released by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed on Tuesday.