Every first quarter from years 2016 to 2020, Xavier University’s Research Institute for Mindanao Culture (Rimcu) in Cagayan de Oro City sent out five research teams to different Mindanao provinces to interview adolescents about their nutrition, sexual and reproductive health, education, life aspirations and living conditions.
The Rimcu is part of a consortium that is engaged in the “Longitudinal Cohort Study of the Filipino Child” that tracks a representative sample of 5,000 Filipino children since 2016, when the children were 10 years old. These children and their mothers are followed up every year for 15 years or until they turn 24 in 2030, the target year of the Sustainable Development Goals. The objective of this longitudinal, multimethod study is to generate a broad range of changes, challenges and prospects that the youth experience as they develop from adolescence to adulthood.
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