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The PICHNET panel survey
Since 2018, PICHNET has followed a sample of 5,000 young adults in Yaoundé as they finish school and begin their transition to adulthood, linking baseline differences to later pathways and events.
What makes the panel durable is its baseline discipline. The cohort starts from a documented end-of-school sample, so later outcomes can be read against a structured starting point rather than a one-off snapshot.
That continuity gives the wider research and program pages their restraint. Later pathways can be tied back to documented differences at the start instead of being treated as isolated anecdotes.