THE number of Filipinos who did not have a job in the third quarter of 2016 declined to the lowest point in close to nine years, according to the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) poll.

The results of the survey, which was first published in BusinessWorld, showed that the jobless rate fell to 18.4 percent, equivalent to 8.2 million adults without jobs.

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