helpers (15%), engineers (9%) and waiters, bartenders and related workers (9%) in Malaysia; engineers NEC (20%), teachers (15%) and supervisor production and general forernen (9%) in Thailand; and teachers (35%), draughtsmen (8%) and supervisor production and general foremen (6%) ln Indonesia. In Singapore and Malaysia, the single largest occupation group of OFWs are domestic workers in extension of women's traditional responsibilities in the home with significant numbers also working as entertainers. There is also an accumulation of anecdotal evidence of some hundreds of Filipinas working in pahn and rubber plantations in Malaysia, reportedly at slave-like wages. Official POEA data are limited in tracing Filipina migrant patterns in ASEAN and for instance are unable to capture the extent of trafficking in young Filipinas to Singapore, Malaysia and possibly even to Brunei. Migrants in the Philippines There are relatively few migrants working in the Philippines even if estimates of undocumented workers are considered. This is in stark contrast to the number of Filipino migrants in ASEAN countries and especially globally. The latest July 2009 data from the Bureau of Immigration (BI) counts just 40,433 foreign workers in the country covering all registered aliens with valid visas (exempting only diplomats with special visa status). The BI does not officially classify foreign workers into major occupation groups and so lists over 3,000 different occupations according to entries in the visa applications. Nonetheless the single biggest cluster of identifiable occupations of foreigners appears to be managers, professionals and businessmen at over 10,000 or some one-fourth of all those working in the country. It is reasonable to presume that a large number of these expatriates are associated with various foreign investment and official development assistance (ODA) projects in the country. These are followed by those in religious and missionary work which accounts for 8,077 or 20.lYo of identified occupations, employees (2,026), students (1,795), housewives (1,283), minors/dependents (1,238) and assorted occupations although a large 15,286 are simply classified as "others". The BI reports that 58%o are male (23,413) and 42o/o female (17 ,020). - Only 3,166 or 7 .8%o of all registered aliens are from ASEAN countries. The largest number of registered aliens are from Indonesia ( I ,097) followed by Malaysia (63 I ), Vietnam (425), Singapore (364), Thailand (273), Myanmar (272), Timor-Leste (95). Cambodia (6) and Laos (3); there are none recorded from Brunei. The BI was unable to provide a breakdown of these aliens by occupation. By nationality the largest number of aliens come from South Korc;L 1,.,1 it:,5-l') (36.1%), China at 7 ,637 (l8.9oA), US at 3,576 (8.8oh), India at 3,1 l5 (7 .7%) and Japan at 1,260 (3.1%);these top five nationalities account forthree-fourths of allregistered aliens (74.6%). t2