The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) announces the conduct of the Press Conference on the July 2021 Labor Force Survey (LFS, Preliminary) Results on 07 September 2021 (Tuesday) through video conferencing using Zoom. This will follow immediately after the Press Conference on the August 2021 inflation at 9:00 AM.

The country’s unemployment rate in June 2021 remained the same as the 7.7 percent reported a month ago. This is lower than the unemployment rates in April (8.7%), February (8.8%), and January (8.7%) of the same year, but higher than the 7.1 percent reported in March 2021.

The country’s unemployment rate in May 2021 was estimated at 7.7 percent, the second lowest reported since the start of the year, following the 7.1 percent reported in March 2021.