Internal migration and the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines

Kristine Joy Briones and Michael Dominic Del Mundo

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Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has created economic disruption in the Philippines, resulting in loss of income for many workers. Because of this, many internal migrants, particularly those who continued to have close ties to their place of origin, returned home. This report investigates internal migrants in the country using preliminary data from the 2020 Census of Population and Housing (CPH) by the Philippine Statistics Authority. While not completely exhaustive, the 2020 CPH may help identify arease where the population has increased or decreased compared to expectations or population projections. Higher-than-expected population is due to relocation of families from danger zones to resettlement areas. Lower-than expected population, on the other hand, is seen areas where natural calamities frequently strike and in urbanized areas usually populated by students and worker residents before the pandemic.

Keywords: COVID-19; internal migration; population; Philippines (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I1 J6 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-08
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