(UPDATE) THE country's unemployment rate dropped to 4.2 percent in November, the lowest in nearly 18 years.

In a briefing on Friday, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said preliminary results of its Labor Force Survey showed that the 4.2 percent rate was lower than the 4.5 percent in October and 6.5 percent in the same month in 2021.

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