Department of Labor and Employment(DOLE)

May 29, 2023 Dear Alyana Daquioag, Greetings! Thank you for your request dated May 22, 2023 11:11:10 AM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch. Your request You asked for Number of employment rates, unemployment rates, labor force participation, and underemployment 2022. 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 at https://psa.gov.ph/statistics/survey/labor-and-employment/labor-force-survey/title/Employment%20Rate%20in%20October%202022%20is%20Estimated%20at%2095.5%20Percent. Kindly take note that the PSA has yet to release the official annual estimates of national and regional key employment indicators. The latest available data for 2022 is as of October 2022. 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