Labour market information system in the Philippines: is it relevant to industrial users?

This paper is a pioneer work on labour market information system in the Philippines. Extensive field visits and some limited surveys are the primary data sources of this work.
Visits to various governmental departments have allowed a compilation of the (main) producers of LMI and of their products (the list compiled in fact is much longer than space on this paper would allow). Special attention has been made to the relatively new and fast growing employment service organised by the Department of Labour and Employment. The paper also makes an attempt to measure relevance of the LMIS (which is relatively advanced as far as data collection is concerned) to some groups of users; namely, trainees, training institutions and industrial firms. A major finding of the paper is that the LMIS in the Philippines is public sector-oriented both in terms of content and format, private users hardly find LMI products relevant.