Published February 24, 2021, 8:00 AM
Baby boom and cautious spending are among the 12 top trends that will shape consumer behavior this year, according to a study.
Kantar, world’s leading data, insights and consulting company, has identified the top 12 trends that will impact how consumers navigate the new normal in shopping this 2021. These trends are baby boom impact, cautious spending, e-commerce expansion, leveraging omni channel, convenience and proximity, antibac, quest for immunity, bring the outside in, impulse at home, joys of pampering again, regionalizing of behavior, and sustainability.
Marie-Anne Lezoraine, general manager of the Worldpanel Division of Kantar Philippines, said that the top trends will affect consumer behavior as COVID-19 pandemic continues to influence the complexity of overall consumer behavior and mobility.
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The Philippine Legislators’ Committee on Population and Development (PLCPD) and the Commission on Population (PopCom), in a dissemination forum on Wednesday, Feb. 17, sounded the alarm on adolescent pregnancy and other top concerns of women in the Philippines during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.
Last week, the data from the civil registry on pregnancy of “very young adolescents” in 2019 was released.
The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), through POPCOM, said that a total of 62,510 children gave birth in 2019.
Of these, seven very young adolescents or those between 10-14 years gave birth per day, or a total of 2,411 for the year.
SunStar February 06, 2021 If it’s any consolation, in the US, the country which leads the global tally of coronavirus cases at 26.6 million and deaths at 451,000, as of Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021, “the demographics of who dies from the disease has not changed” since it was first detected there in January last year.
According to Dr. Thomas Holland of Duke University, the hardest hit sectors continue to be the elderly, accounting for eight out of 10 deaths based on figures released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and those with existing health conditions like cancer, kidney disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, among others.
Filipinos will continue to grow in numbers in 2021 - although at a slower pace - as their number is projected to reach 110,881,756 next year, according to the Commission on Population and Development (POPCOM).
Despite the rise in absolute numbers, the population grew gradually to 1.31% by the start of 2021 - an increase from the previous 109,480,590 at the onset of 2020. From a 1.68% population growth rate in 2016, it was at 1.45% between 2019 and 2020.
With effects of the COVID-19 pandemic such as service delivery disruptions on family planning factored-in, the figure is estimated to swell at 111.1 million, affecting mainly the under-1 age group due to increased unplanned pregnancies.
Published January 7, 2021, 4:06 PM
The year 2020 and what it had in store surprised us all it changed our lifestyle in ways we never anticipated. With the implementation of strict lockdowns in different parts of the world, the Philippines included, to combat the threat of Covid-19 pandemic, this caused domino effects not just in the world economy but also in the population.
BABY BOOM A study show that due to lockdown an estimated 2M lockdown babies will be born this 2021 (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)
In the Philippines alone, the University of the Philippines Population Institute, together with United Nations Population Fund study, showed that there will be 600,000 Filipino women who wouldn’t have the access to contraceptives available in public health clinics and hospitals. This situation will lead to lockdown baby boom, where nearly 2 million babies are expected to be born this 2021, according to Juan Antonio Perez III, executive director of the Commission on Population and