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S TA T
BUREAU OF
L ABOR AND
E MPLOYMENT
STATISTICS
Department of Labor and Employment
Manila, Philippines
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By field of study, nurses comprised Another important source of data is
the biggest groups as they accounted for the Labor Force Survey (LFS) of the
more than one-half (52.0% or 223,038) of National Statistics Office, which provides
total successful examinees. The next the official source of statistics on
larger groups were: midwives (87,962), employment and unemployment in the
physicians (47,750), pharmacists country. Data from this source can be
(21,088) and therapists (12,144). The obtained from the public use files (PUFs)
rest (36,541) were composed of of the LFS, which enable users to generate
nutritionist/dietician, optometrist, medical special tabulations of occupational data at
technologist, medical laboratory three-digit level. This data, however,
technician, radiological technician and x- should be treated as indicative in nature
ray technologist. as they could be subject to sampling
errors.
It can be observed that the
number of registered nurses and midwives Domestic Demand
followed almost identical growth pattern
over the period 1990 to 2000 – gradual Estimates based on the October
increases from 1990 to 1992, sharp 2001 round of the Labor Force Survey
increments in 1993 to 1995 and a slowing placed the stock or numbers of employed
down until 2000. On the other hand, a health professional workers in the country
stable annual growth was observed for at 170,000. Of this number, 44.7 percent
physicians and pharmacists. Note also or 76,000 were nurses and midwives while
that physical/occupational therapist was the rest or 94,000 were other medical
the only profession that registered steady professional workers (note that three-digit
increases during the period. level data lumped nursing and midwifery
together under one occupational group).
DEMAND FOR NURSES The government employed the biggest
number of nurses/midwives absorbing
The analysis of demand for nurses nearly one-half (48.7% or 37,000) of total
and other related professions is severely employed nurses/midwives. An almost
restricted by the absence of systematic equal proportion (47.4% or 36,000) was
collection of employment data from employed in private establishments.
administrative records. The Department of
Health (DOH) and other Table 4 – EMPLOYED NURSES, MIDWIVES AND OTHER HEALTH
government agencies such as the PROFESSIONALS, PHILIPPINES: OCTOBER 2001
Department of Budget and (in thousands)
Management (DBM) and Civil Total Occupation
Service Commission (CSC) do not Employed Nursing and
Class of Worker Other Health
regularly compile data series on Medical Midwifery
Professionals Professionals Professionals
these groups of workers.
Meanwhile, the Philippine Nurses Wage and Salary Worker 139 74 65
Association (PNA) provides an - Private
alternative source of information Household/Own 2 * 1
but their estimates may need Family-Operated Bus.
further validation in terms of - Private Establishment 78 36 42
coverage and accuracy. Based on - Government/Gov’t
59 37 22
Corp.
the PNA 2002 survey, the number
Employer in Own Family-
of nurses employed locally stood at 8 - 8
Operated Business
only 26,669 while the bulk or
Self-employed 23 2 21
170,000 were employed overseas.
TOTAL 170 76 94
* Less than 1,000.
Source of data: National Statistics Office, Labor Force Survey.
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Table 5 – EMIGRANT FILIPINO PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL WORKERS,
BY FIELD OF SPECIALIZATION, PHILIPPINES: 1988 -2001
No. of Emigrants
Professional Profession Other Medical
Year (Medical Therapist
Nurse al Midwife Professions
Professionals)
1988-1990 6,943 3,860 244 39 2,800
1991-1995 10,911 5,577 434 411 4,489
1996-2000 6,175 2,863 310 109 2,893
2001 2,388 1,575 44 56 713
TOTAL 26,417 13,875 1,032 615 10,895
Source of data: Commission on Filipino Overseas (CFO).
Foreign Demand
The majority (83.0% or 11,511) of
Permanent Migration Filipino nurses who left the country during
the same period migrated to the United
Demand for Filipino nurses States. Apart from the United States, the
abroad as well as related professions has two other countries which registered a
grown steadily over the past two decades. fairly large number of Filipino migrant
Records from the Commission of Filipino nurses were Canada and Australia. (Table
Overseas (CFO) revealed that from 1988 6)
to 2000, a total of 24,029 medical
professionals have migrated permanently Temporary Migration
to other countries for various reasons. In
2001, another group of 2,388 medical Temporary migration accounted for
professionals were added in the CFO list of biggest source of demand for Filipino
emigrants. nurses abroad. Over the ten-year period
1992-2002 (as of October), the Philippine
It is interesting to note that Overseas Employment Administration
nurses constituted the single largest group (POEA) recorded a total deployment of
of Filipino medical professional emigrants 83,394 Filipino nurses. In the last three
as they accounted for over one-half years, deployment of nurses has
(52.5% or 13,875) of the total migrants increased by almost three-folds compared
registered by the CFO. Midwives ranked a to the deployments posted in previous
distant second (3.9% or 1,032) while the years. (Table 7)
rest were composed of therapists, medical
technologists, physicians, pharmacist,
radio or x-ray technicians, nutritionists
and optometrists. (Table 5)
Table 6 –EMIGRANT FILIPINO PROFESSIONAL NURSES BY COUNTRY
OF DESTINATION, PHILIPPINES: 1988-2001
No. of
United Rest of the
Year Professional Canada Australia
States World
Nurses Emigrants
1988-1990 3,860 3,266 262 235 97
1991-1995 5,577 4,574 606 186 211
1996-2000 2,863 2,290 341 115 117
2001 1,575 1,381 141 39 14
TOTAL 13,875 11,511 1,350 575 439
Source of data: Commission on Filipino Overseas (CFO).
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Table 7 – DEPLOYMENT OF FILIPINO NURSES BY COUNTRY OF DESTINATION,
PHILIPPINES: 1992-2002
Country of Destination
No. of United
Year Deployed Rest
Saudi United Kingdom United Arab
Nurses Kuwait Libya of the
Arabia States and Emirates
World
Ireland
1992 6,078 3,279 1,767 0 271 320 269 172
1993 7,308 4,202 1,987 0 47 139 721 212
1994 7,171 3,332 2,853 0 270 455 15 246
1995 7,954 3,249 3,690 0 94 59 380 482
1996 5,477 3,071 270 0 137 269 809 921
1997 5,245 3,794 11 0 209 25 175 1,031
1998 5,399 4,098 5 63 279 143 89 722
1999 5,972 4,031 53 934 378 53 18 505
2000 8,341 4,386 91 2,755 305 133 17 654
2001 13,822 5,275 304 6,949 249 192 9 844
2002 (as of October) 10,627 5,083 295 3,633 367 104 345 800
TOTAL 83,394 43,800 11,326 14,334 2,606 1,892 2,847 6,589
Source of data: Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA).
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Table 8 - SUPPLY-DEMAND SITUATION OF THE NURSING PROFESSION,
PHILIPPINES: 1981-2001
(in thousands)
SUPPLY DEMAND
Surplus/(Gap)
(Registered Professional Nurses) (Employed Nurses)
1981-2000 (PRC data) = 223 Domestic Employment
2001 (estimate) = 11 Oct. 2001 (LFS data) = 54
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