Cagayan de Oro City (8 July) -- A total of 1,837,000 persons was employed in Northern Mindanao by industry group, as of the start of the year, the January 2010 Labor Force Survey (LFS) of the National Statistics Office (NSO) show.

Of this figure, 859,000 individuals were employed by the services sector representing the highest share of 46.7 percent of the total number of employed persons by industry group, Salvador A. Aves, Ph.D., Regional Director of NSO-10, said.

This was followed by the agri...