Projects

Conducted since 1982 by UPPI and the Demographic Research and Development Foundation, Inc., the Young Adult Fertility and Sexuality Study is the Philippines’ largest series of nationally and regionally representative surveys on Filipino youth aged 15 to 24. The 2021 YAFS is the fifth round in the series.

The 2018 National Migration Survey provides baseline information on internal and international migration in the Philippines. It was commissioned by the Philippine Statistics Authority in collaboration with the University of the Philippines System.

UPPI assessed the Modified Conditional Cash Transfer for Indigenous Peoples in Geographically Isolated and Disadvantaged Areas, examining the delivery of cash grants and access to health and education services across selected Indigenous Peoples communities.

The fourth Young Adult Fertility and Sexuality Study gathered nationally and regionally representative information on Filipino youth aged 15–24, covering education, employment, relationships, health, lifestyle, media use, and sexual and non-sexual risk behaviors.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is a UN program founded in 1946 and headquartered in New York City that provides long-term humanitarian and developmental assistance to children and mothers in developing countries. To measure the adequacy of its responses and resources allocation in terms of sector funding, staffing, supplies allocation until delivery, it has instituted the Humanitarian Performance Monitoring (HPM).

Part of the United Nations Children’s Fund’s (UNICEF) Seventh Country Program for Children (CPC-7) in the Philippines is the realization of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) through the improvement of various indicators on education, social security, water, sanitation, hygiene, child protection, disaster risk reduction, nutrition, and maternal health. Towards this goal, UNICEF has identified a total number of 30 municipalities and 6 cities across the country as priority areas for action.

Spaces in Transition mapped the rapid transformation of Metro Manila’s peri-urban fringe and examined how land development affected residents in Rizal, Cavite, and Laguna using survey, ethnographic, historical, and archival research.

The Young Adult Fertility and Sexuality (YAFS) Study is a series of national surveys on the Filipino youth, conducted since 1982 by UPPI and DRDF. Gathering data from Filipino youth aged 15 to 24, YAFS is one of the primary sources of information on sexual and non-sexual risk behaviors and its determinants in the Philippines.

The Young Adult Fertility and Sexuality (YAFS) Study is a series of cross-sectional surveys on the Filipino youth aged 15-24 conducted since 1982 by the University of the Philippines Population Institute (UPPI) and the Demographic Research and Development Foundation (DRDF). YAFS is the only survey of young people that is representative at the national and regional level.

UPPI Explores Parental Involvement on Adolescent Health and Development Parenting is a tough job especially with teenagers. For one, they get exposed to words, visuals, and situations that are not normally found or experienced at home. In school and in environments outside the home, the pressure to conform to the standards of certain dominant groups is also huge.