Department of Labor and Employment(DOLE)

August 19, 2022 Dear Enrico Nazario, Greetings! Thank you for your request dated Aug 15, 2022 09:13:16 PM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch. Your request You asked for Annual regional unemployment rate for Regions IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, and BARMM from 1997 to 2019. Response to your request We were able to determine that this particular information is already available online and therefore cannot be counted as a valid FOI request. You may retrieve your requested information from the Philippine Statistics Authority Labor Force Survey at https://psa.gov.ph/statistics/survey/labor-and-employment/labor-force-survey. Your right to request a review If you are unhappy with this response to your FOI request, you may ask us to carry out an internal review of the response by writing to Secretary Bienvenido E. Laguesma at electronic mail address [email protected]. Your review request should explain why you are dissatisfied with this response, and should be made within 15 calendar days from the date when you received this letter. We will complete the review and tell you the result within 30 calendar days from the date when we receive your review request. If you are not satisfied with the result of the review, you then have the right to appeal to the Office of the President under Administrative Order No. 22 (s. 2011). Thank you. Respectfully, Grace Baldoza FOI Officer