UAE (19.9%), Qatar (8.7%), Hongkong (8.0%), Singapore (4.3yo), Kuwait (4.}yo), Taiwan (4.0oh),Italy (2.3%), Canada (1.8%) and Bahrain (1.3%). Overseas Filipino workers remain largely concentrated in low-skill and lowpaying work despite some increase in higher-paying work since the 1990s. Overseas Filipinos as a whole are found in a wide range of service and industrial sectors - they work in households, for multinationals and domestic firrns, and in other private and public institutions of various sizes. OFWs however still remain largely concentrated in low-skilland low-paying work notwithstanding some increase in higher-paying work since the 1990s. In the 1992-2008 period, according to POEA data, over two-thirds of newly-hired OFWs were classified as service workers (37 .4%) or production workers (32.0%) rvhile only a quarter were classified as professional and technical workers (25.0%). In 2008, nearly all of the "service workers" are accounted for by domestic helpers and other household workers, maids or cleaners in commercial establishments, cooks, waiters, bartenders, caregivers and caretakers; domestic helpers in particular account for over twothirds of this skills classification. "Production workers" are mainly construction-related jobs with some flactory-based work. The classification "proltssional and technical workers" are mainly health professionals and engineers (about 75%o) although a substantial portion are performers and other artists (nearly 10%). Total annual deployments of new hires increased over the entire period lrorn 260,594 in 1992 to 337,730 in 2008. However there are two identifiable sub-periods defined by trends in the three largest OFW skill categories so far: from 1992-2001 and then200l-2008. In the sub-periodl992-200 l, the share ofprofbssional and technical workers in new hires generally rose, from 2l .7oh in 1992 to 37 .7o/o in 2001 ; conversely, the share of production workers fell from 36.5 to 22.0 percent. The share of service workers was more or less stable. However after 200 I the share of professional and technicalworkers started dropping and fell steeply to 13.4o/o in 2006 and rose only slightly to 14.6%o in 2008. On the other hand, the share ofproduction workers rose significantly to 39.2o/o in 2008 and that of service workers to 46.8Yo in 2006 before dropping to 36.5o/o in 2008; these two categories combined accounted for eight of ten deployments of newly-hired OFWs in 2008. ln 2008, some 286,580 or nearly 9 out of 10 newly-hired OFWs were in working jobs class - i.e., service workers, agricultural workers, production workers, sales workers, clerical workers. These numbers even underestimate the number of such workers because they only count contracts processed by the POEA and do not yet include undocumented overseas Filipinos who are overwhelmingly in low-paying, low-skill working class jobs. Survey-based estimates of the distribution of OFWs by occupation are consistent u,ith this POEA administrative data on deployrnents. According to the Survey on Overseas Filipinos (SOF) of the National Statistics Office (NSO), as of October 2008