Around nine million adult Filipinos were without work in the first quarter of 2015, although the unemployment rate has gone down to its lowest since 2010, the Social Weather Stations (SWS) said in its latest survey.

The SWS survey--published in BusinessWorld on Tuesday--said the unemployment rate in the country for March 2015 was at 19.1 percent, nearly eight percentage points down from the 27 percent (about 12.4 million adults) jobless last December.

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