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A RECENT
report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development showed that while the Philippines has a low
brain drain rate, Filipinos who reached college remain
attracted in working or settling over long periods in
OECD’s 29 member-countries.
The
report bared that some 46.7 percent of the nearly two
million Filipinos in OECD member-countries are tertiary
educated while 35.7 percent have secondary education.
The
country’s brain drain rate (or the emigration rate of
people holding a tertiary degree) is 3.9 percent in
total, said the report titled A Profile of Immigrant
Populations in the 21st Century.
The
Philippines joins a group of origin countries with large
populations such as Brazil, Indonesia, Bangladesh,
India, and China which have “low” brain drain
figures—meaning, less than 5 percent.
Countries with smaller populations have higher brain
drain or emigration rates, some of which are more than
40 percent.
But in
24 of 29 OECD countries (counting some 1.819 million
Filipinos), some 64.7 percent of them stay in these
countries for over a decade compared to some 19.8
percent who have stayed in these countries from 5-10
years.
By
percentage, there were more males who have stayed
over-10 years than females (65.6 percent versus 64
percent).
Across
educational levels, there are more Filipinos who have
stayed over 10 years in these OECD-member countries,
compared to those staying from 5-10 years or from 0-5
years.
The
highest among these groups of Filipinos by educational
level is the group with tertiary education (66.8
percent), followed by those with secondary education
(65.1 percent) and those with primary education (58.7
percent).
The OECD
is made up of mostly developed countries: Australia,
Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark,
Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland,
Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New
Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovak Republic,
Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom,
and the United States.
Feminization
FILIPINOS located in the OECD area are the ninth largest
foreign-born population, OECD reported, with females
outnumbering males (1.187 million versus 0.745 million).
In terms
of those holding tertiary education within their gender
segment, females outnumber males by percentage: 48.3
percent versus 44.1 percent.
Filipinos in these OECD-member countries are also mostly
employed (65.3 percent). While there are only some 3.4
percent of them who are unemployed in these countries,
31.3 percent of Filipinos are inactive.
There
are also more employed males (69.6 percent) than females
(some 62.5 percent), in terms of percentage counts
within their gender segments.
By
occupation, in some 26 OECD member-countries that count
an estimated 332,000 Filipinos, some 58.9 percent of
them are operators.
These
countries, however, exclude Japan, Turkey, and the US.
Nearly
27 percent of these Filipinos are technicians, and 14.5
percent are professionals.
In
OECD’s data on the sectors of activity of immigrant
workers, covering some 1.208 million Filipinos in 27 of
29 OECD countries (minus Germany and Japan), some 52.5
percent of them are in personal and social services;
17.4 percent in agriculture and industry; 16.8 percent
are in distributive services; and 13.3 percent are in
producer services.
For some
173,000 tertiary-educated Filipinos aged 15 and above,
40.1 percent of them are graduates of humanities and
social sciences.
Meanwhile, some 30.6 percent of these tertiary-educated
Filipinos have degrees in education and health, whereas
another 26.1 percent are science and engineering
graduates.
The OECD
report presented profiles of what it calls “immigrant”
populations in their member-countries, the report being
a result of OECD’s extensive immigration databases. The
report also packaged information that lumped together
data from all 29 countries, and in some select
member-countries.
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