PHINMA Education regularly conducts tracer studies of its graduates to see the employment outcomes a year after the graduation of its students. This paper will look into the tracer surveys conducted for both 2019 and 2020 graduates. There were 1,490 respondents from 2019 graduates and 1,114 respondents from 2020 graduates. The tracer survey for the 2019 cohort was done in September-October 2020 in the middle of an economic recession, while the 2020 cohort was done in June-July 2021 during an economic recovery.

PHINMA Education conducted two surveys among its college students ages 19 - 23 years old from different socio-economic classes nationwide. The survey confirmed that while everyone was affected by the pandemic, those from lower-income households were more gravely affected. Compared to high-income households, they had difficulty adjusting to the sudden loss of income.

A February 2021 survey among 7,139 college students from six PHINMA Education schools, across all programs and from all year levels, showed a positive attitude towards registration and voting. However, about 30% of students had not yet registered. This white paper discusses the initiatives of PHINMA Education, particularly its MULAT program, to nurture the socio-civic consciousness among the students and assist them in registering to vote in the 2022 national elections.