THE number of unemployed Filipinos fell from 3.81 million in October last year to 3.5 million in October this year, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said.

In a briefing on Tuesday, National Statistician Dennis Mapa said based on the latest Labor Force Survey (LFS), the number of out-of-work individuals translates to an unemployment rate of 7.4 percent, down from the 8.7 percent in October last year.

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