3rd QUARTER 2022 VITAL STATISTICS
This special release presents statistics on vital events occurring for the 3rd quarter of 2022 in the province of Ifugao. This publication shows the total registered birth, marriage, and death statistics by registration status, sex, legitimacy status, age, type of ceremony, and place type. The civil registry documents transmitted monthly by the Local Civil Registry Offices (LCROs) to Provincial Statistical Office for machine processing served as the source of data in preparation of this special release.
B I R T H R E G I S T R A T I O N
Table 1 shows that the registered births for the 3rd quarter of 2022 had a total of 941, of which 49.31% were males and 50.69% were females. The municipality of Lamut registered most of the birth with 34.33% from the total birth registration. High birth registrations were also recorded in the municipalities of Alfonso Lista and Banaue with 202 and 88 registered live births, respectively. Hingyon had the least number of registered live births with 5.
TABLE 1. Total Registered Live Births by Sex and by Municipality, Ifugao: 3rd Quarter 2022
Source: Registered Vital Events of Ifugao, 2022
Table 2 shows that 72.37% were timely registered and 27.63% were late registered. Timely registered births were higher by 421 compared to late registered births. Majority were registered within the reglementary period of 30 days. The municipality of Lamut had the highest percentage of timely registered births with 30.92% out of 323 total registered births, followed by Alfonso Lista with 18.81% out of 202 total registered births
TABLE 2. Total Registered Live Births by Registration Status, Ifugao: 3rd Quarter 2022
M A R R I A G E R E G I S T R A T I O N
Table 3 shows that the highest number of registered marriages was recorded in the municipality of Lagawe with 22, followed by the municipality of Kiangan and Aguinaldo with 19 weddings, respectively. Hungduan had the least registered marriages with 7. A total of 166 marriages were registered in the province of Ifugao for the 3rd quarter of 2022. There were 2 marriages that were registered late.
TABLE 3. Total Registered Marriages by Registration Status and by Municipality, Ifugao: 3rd Quarter 2022
D E A T H R E G I S T R A T I O N
Table 4 shows that registered deaths for the 3rd quarter of 2022 had a total of 203 of which 58.13% were male fatalities and 41.87% were female fatalities. Male deaths were higher by 33 compared to female deaths. Majority of the municipalities recorded more male deaths than female deaths. The municipality of Alfonso Lista had the highest number of reported deaths with 45 and followed by Lamut with 35. Three municipalities with less than 10 registered deaths were Hungduan, Asipulo and Hingyon with 6, 5 and 3 registered deaths, respectively.
TABLE 4. Total Registered Deaths by Municipality, Ifugao: 3nd Quarter 2022
Source: Registered Vital Events of Ifugao, 2022
Figure 5 shows that among the place types for death, Home was the most common with 155 deaths. Hospital had a total of 48 deaths. The total registered deaths at home were higher by 107 than the total registered deaths in hospital. There were no fatalities who died on other place type of death in the document.
FIGURE 5. Registered Deaths by Place Type, Ifugao: 3rd Quarter 2022
Source: Registered Vital Events of Ifugao, 2022
D E F I N I T I O N O F T E R M S
Vital Statistics are derived from information obtained at the time when the occurrences of vital events and their characteristics are inscribed in a civil register.
Vital acts and events are the births, deaths, foetal deaths, marriages and all such events that have something to do with an individual’s entrance and departure from life together with the changes in civil status that may occur to a person during his lifetime. Recording of these events in the civil registration and the resulting documents are called vital records.
Municipal Form No. 102 (Certification of Live Birth) is the prescribed form being used for the declaration of facts and circumstances surrounding the birth of a person for purpose of registration.
Municipal Form No. 103 (Certification of Death) is the prescribed form being used for the declaration of facts and circumstances surrounding the death of a person for purposes of registration.
Municipal Form No. 97 (Certification of Marriage) is used to record information pertaining to the marriage of the contracting parties. It contains information regarding the groom and the bride.
Live Birth is a complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of conception, irrespective of the duration of the pregnancy, which after such separation breathes or shows any other evidence of life, such as beating of the heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite movement of voluntary muscles, whether or not the umbilical cord has been cut or the placenta is attached; each product of such a birth is considered live born.
Marriage is contract of permanent union between man and a woman entered into in accordance with law for the establishment of conjugal and family life.
Death refers to the permanent disappearance of all evidence of life at any time after live births has taken place (postnatal cessation of vital function without capability of resuscitation).
Foetal death refers to death prior to the complete expulsion or extraction of a product of conception from its mother, irrespective of the duration of pregnancy.
Legitimate refers to a child conceived or born during a valid marriage of parents.
Illegitimate refers to a child conceived and born outside of a valid marriage of parents.
This release contains statistical tables and graphs encompassing the vital event – births, marriages & deaths occurring in the province of Ifugao.
Data on births, deaths and marriages presented in this release were obtained from the Certificate of Live Birth (Municipal Form 102), Certificate of Death (Municipal Form 103) and Certificate of Marriage (Municipal Form No. 97) that were registered at the Office of the Municipal Civil Registrars and forwarded to the Philippine Statistics Authority - Provincial Statistical Office in Ifugao. Information included births, deaths and marriages registered in July to September 2022.