According to a statement released by the NSCB about the 2010 statistics on OFWs, the next two regions that sent the most number of OFWs abroad in that year were:
- Region III (Central Luzon): 294,000 (or 14.4 percent of the total number of OFWs who left the country), and
- the National Capital Region: 282,000 (or 13.8 percent).
Meanwhile, Region XIII (Caraga), Region IV-B (Mimaropa), and the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) sent the least number of overseas workers with each sending less than 2 percent of the total number of OFWs who left the country in 2010.
“Increasing numbers of OFWs are coming from the Ilocos Region, Central Visayas and Cagayan Valley,” the state-run statistics agency said.
NSCB cited that from 2008 to 2010, the number of overseas workers in the Ilocos Region jumped almost twice to 294,000 from 156,000.
“Overall, for every 10 women who work abroad as OFWs, there are 11 men,” the statement read.
Still, in some regions, sex distribution among OFWs differed.
In Region XII (Soccsksargen), Region II (Cagayan Valley), Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), and CAR, for every 10 female overseas workers, there are only three to five male, based in the 2008 to 2010 records.
“There is a very slight trend that our OFWs are getting older but their average age has been consistently about 34.4 years,” NSCB noted.
The statistics agency explained that male OFWs are older at 36 year old, while female overseas worker’s average age were only posted at 34.
The largest number of OFWs generally came from the 25 to 29 age group, representing about 25 percent of all overseas workers, NSCB cited.
“Our young kababayans are leaving the country for work, spending probably the most productive years of their lives away from their families and their friends,” NSCB stated.
However, female OFWs outnumber their male counterparts in the younger age group.
With overseas workers aged 15-24, there are only six men in 10 women who were leaving the country for work. In the age group of 25 to 29, there were nine men OFWs for every 10 women.
“This calls attention to the greater vulnerability of our female OFWs compared to male OFWs,” NSCB warned.
According to the statistics agency, 76 percent of the OFWs were hired in the occupational groups: laborers and unskilled workers, those engaged in trade and related works, service workers and shop and market sales workers, and plant and machine operators and assemblers.
Professionals and technicians and associate professionals comprise about 10 percent.
Female overseas workers, NSCB noted, are predominantly working as laborers and unskilled workers (domestic helpers), clerks, and service workers and shop and market sales workers.
Where do OFWs go?
According to NSCB, 79 out of 100 overseas workers work in Asia, while 9 OFWs would be working in Europe and 8 workers will be based in North and South America. Both Australia and Africa will have 2 OFWs in their continents per 100 overseas workers.
The three biggest work destination countries of OFWs were Saudi Arabia (21 out of 100), United Arab Emirates (15 out of 100), and Malaysia (10 out of 100), the statistics agency said.
Meanwhile, based on the 2010 stock estimates of the Commission on Filipino Overseas, the top 10 destination of Filipinos including OFWs and emigrants were:
1. United States, with 3,166,529 Filipinos
2. Saudi Arabia, 1,512,539
3. Canada, 667,674
4. United Arab Emirates, 636,154
5. Australia, 345,592
6. Malaysia, 316,273
7. Japan, 290,358
8. United Kingdom 196,740
9. Hong Kong, 169,749
10. Kuwait, 169,106
- VVP, GMA News
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