Unemployment in the Philippines dropped to 6.4 percent in April from 7 percent a year earlier, with additional jobs boosting the employment rate slightly, preliminary figures from the Labor Force Survey (LFS) show.

The jobless rate also declined from 6.6 percent in January 2015, according to the LFS figures, released on Tuesday by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA).

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