The study is undertaken to come up with a baseline information to measure the outflow of S&T human resources to foreign countries and better understand the factors contributing to the gap in the supply of S&T human resource in the country.

The first part, “Emigration of Science and Technology Educated Filipinos, 1998-2006,” covers the educational background of permanent migrants while the second studies the profile of temporary Filipino overseas contract workers who had S&T occupations.