Unemployment in the country dropped from an estimate of 10 million individuals in the third quarter to 9.1 million individuals in the fourth quarter of 2015, according to a recent survey by the Social Weather Stations (SWS).

The survey, first published in BusinessWorld on Tuesday, showed that the number of jobless adults fell from 23.7 percent in September to 21.4 percent in December--the lowest in 11 years.

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