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total labor force or Unemployment Rate (UR). For the Underemployment Rate
(UndER) or the proportion of total underemployed persons to the total
employed persons and for the Labor Force Participation Rate (LFPR) or the
proportion of total labor force to the total household population 15 years old
and over, similar results were obtained, that is, 70 out of 81 provinces have
registered CVs less than or equal to 10% and 46 out of 81 provinces for the
proportion of the total visibly underemployed persons to the total employed
persons or for Visibly Underemployment Rate (VUndER). The CVs of provincial
LFS indicators (Rates) is shown in Figure 2. For all indicators, the CVs ranges
from 2.30% to 23.24%. Around 75% of the provincial employment and
underemployment rates are reliable while more than 75% for the provincial
LFPR estimates are reliable.

Table 2: Number of Provinces/HUCs by LFS Indicators
(Rates) and CVs using Simple Averaging Method

Indicators CVs (%) of Provinces CVs (%) of HUCs
< 10 (10, 20] > 20 < 10 (10,20] > 20

ER 67 11 3 13 18 2

UR 40 34 7 8 21 4
UndR 70 9 2 11 17 5
VUndR 46 29 6 6 20 7

LFPR 70 9 2 21 12

Figure 2: CVs of LFS Indicators (Rates)

a. Bootstrap Method
Table 3 presents the number of provinces and HUCs by LFS Indicators (Levels)
using bootstrap method. For the LFS indicators such as employment, labor force, not
in the labor force, and population 15 years old and over, less OCW, indicated that all
provinces and HUCs were found to be reliable. Figure 3 shows the boxplots of CVs of
the estimates of LFS indicators (levels) for all provinces. The CVs of all estimates
range from 0.76% to 29.04%. Estimates for employment levels (ranges from 0.76% to
3.80%), total labor force levels (1.35% to 3.62%), population 15 years old and over,

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