Comment on the Piron Paper.

The article presents comments on sociologist Georges Piron's paper "The Educated Unemployed," which was published in the October 1972 issue of the journal "Philippine Sociological Review." The following comments deal with the principal points raised in Piron's paper. These points relate to the basic data, the explanation of those data in terms of agencies and processes like the enrolment of children in schools and the absorption of graduates into industry, and some policy recommendations and implications. The basic data used by Piron are taken from the Bureau of the Census and Statistics via the Rand Report. His definitions, however, are from a later bulletin of the Bureau. From the interview schedule used by enumerators to determine the employment status of respondents, it is clear that a person doing no other work but work or chores around the house is considered to be not at work. One area of ambiguity centers around the definitions of the employed, at work, unpaid family workers and of persons doing no other work except work or chores around the house.