Population Institute

The UPPI received recognition from the Quality Assurance Office (QAO) of the University of the Philippines-Diliman (UPD) for successfully completing the External Assessment of the Master of Arts in Demography (MADEM) program late last year.

From June 7 to 9, 2023, the University of Namur hosted a Philippine Studies Conference following a grant from the Philippine Government as a way of celebrating and recognizing the long years of research collaboration between Belgian and Filipino scholars.

As the Philippines transitions to an aging society, research on older Filipinos has become increasingly relevant.

From 1996 to 2018, the University of the Philippines Population Institute and the Demographic Research and Development Foundation, Inc. have conducted three landmark nationally representative studies on older Filipinos: 1996 Philippine Elderly Survey, 2007 Philippine Study on Aging, and the 2018 Longitudinal Study of Ageing and Health in the Philippines.

Presenters respond to questions from the audience during the YAFS5 national dissemination forum.

The UPPI, in collaboration with the Department of Health (DOH), presented the key findings of the 2021 Young Adult Fertility and Sexuality Study (YAFS5) during a public forum held on 14 October 2022 in Quezon City.

With support from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the UPPI hosted a nine-day training-workshop on the use of Demographic Analysis and Population Projection System (DAPPS) and Population Analysis Spreadsheets (PASEX) to aid in projecting the Philippine population through 2055 based on the 2020 Census of Population and Housing (CPH).

UPPI University Researcher, Ms. Klarriness Tanalgo (MPops), and Programmer, Mr. Jeconiah Boongaling, participated in the 10th Summer Seminar on Population organized by Korea Statistics (KOSTAT) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Seoul, South Korea.