This Special Release presents data on birth certificates registered at the Local Civil Registry Offices in the ten municipalities of the province for the second quarter of 2021 and 2022 and forwarded to the Office of the Civil Registrar General. Data were tabulated from the DVSS. Thus, statistics presented here is preliminary.

Number of Teenage Mothers Increasing

Based on the result of the tabulation from the Decentralized Vital Statistics System (DVSS) of the Philippine Statistics Authority, teenage mothers in Mountain Province reached 100 in the 1 st quarter of 2022. This is 48.94 percent higher than the recorded number of teenage mothers in the same quarter of 2021. In the 1 st quarter of 2022, the figure is at 99.

Five in Every Ten Teenage Mothers are Listed in Bauko and Paracelis

By municipality, Bauko recorded the highest number of teenage moms at 35 in the 2 nd quarter of 2022. This comprises 50 percent of all the registered teenage moms in the province. This is followed by Paracelis at 18 teenage mothers. The registered births in these 2 municipalities comprises 75.71 percent of the total teenage mothers listed in the province. In the same quarter of 2021, Bauko is still the municipality with the highest number of teenage mothers.

Sadanga is the only municipality with no reported teenage mothers for the 2nd quarters of 2021 and 2022.

14-Year-Old Girl- Youngest Mother

The youngest age of a mother that gave birth in the second quarter of 2022 is 14 years old. In the same quarter last year, the youngest age of a mother that gave birth is still 14 years old.

According to birth order, the youngest mother who already gave birth to her 2nd child is 16 years old; for her 3rd child is 20 years old while the youngest who already bore her 4 th child is 20 years old.

In the same quarter of 2021, the youngest mother who bore her 2nd child is 16 years old while the youngest to give birth for her 3rd child is 19 years old.

Males Slightly Outnumbered Females in Terms of Registered Births

According to sex, it is noted that there are more males that were born in Mountain Province in the 2 nd quarter of 2022 at 453 births. This is 0.67 percent higher than the female births at 450.

The difference of male births to their female counterparts in Bauko, Bontoc and Paracelis contributed to the higher number of male births in the province. Bauko registered 5 more males than females while Bontoc and Paracelis have 4 more boys than girls.

It is also observed that Sagada posted the highest number of female difference as it registered 6 more female than male births while Tadian has 4 more girls than boys. Besao registered the same number of male and female births.

About Seven in Every Ten Births are Registered Timely

Of the 903 registered births in the province in the 2 nd quarter of 2022, 667 births or 73.86 percent are registered timely. Bauko having the highest number of births recorded 409 timely registered births while all births in Sabangan are late registrations. Four municipalities- Barlig, Natonin, Paracelis, and Sabangan have more late than timely registrations.

Paracelis on the other hand has the highest number of late registrations for birth. Of the 132 births registered in this municipality, 86 births are late registrations. This is far higher compared to the births registered late in the different municipalities in the province.

According to sex, 74.39 percent of the male births are registered timely while 73.33 percent of the female births are also registered timely.

About Four in Every Ten Births in the Province are Illegitimate

Of the 903 births in the province in the 2 nd quarter of 2022, 347 births or 38.43 percent are illegitimate. This means that about 4 in every 10 babies was born out of wedlock.

It is also noted that Natonin and Paracelis registered more illegitimate than legitimate babies. Of the total births in Natonin, 58.97 percent are illegitimate while 62.12 percent of all babies born in the 2nd quarter of 2022 in Paracelis are illegitimate.

Categorizing by sex, illegitimate births is higher among female babies than males. 41.33 percent of all the female births registered in the 2nd quarter of this year are illegitimate. In comparison, 35.54 percent of all male births are also born to unmarried parents. All female births registered in the quarter in Sabangan are illegitimate.

About Three in Every Ten Births are First Born

According to birth order, 30.23 percent are first born children. This translates to about three in every ten births in the province in the 2 nd quarter this year are first born. In addition, 25.14 percent are 2nd born and 18.49 percent are third born babies.

It is also observed that there is one who gave birth to her 12 th child and this is recorded in the municipality of Bauko.

In addition, there is a 22-year-old lady who gave birth to her 5 th child; a 28-year-old woman who bore her 6 th child; and a 27-year-old woman who gave birth to her 7th child.

About Seven in Every Ten Births in the Province Are Attended by a Physician

Of the total number of births registered in the province, 69.44 percent are attended by physicians; 4.21 percent are attended by hilot/ unlicensed midwives and 2.10 percent are attended by nurses. The remaining percentage is either attended by midwives and others.

About Three in Every Ten Mothers Who Gave Birth are 25 to 29 Years Old

Of the total women who gave birth in the 2 nd quarter of 2022, 28.90 percent are under the age group 25 to 29 years old. This is followed by age group 20 to 24 years old at 22.59 percent and age group 30 to 44 years old at 20.60 percent.

According to single year, the highest number of mothers who gave birth this quarter are those aged 25 years old at 69 births. This means that about 8 in every 100 women who gave birth this quarter are aged 25 years old.

The oldest mother who bore a child this quarter is 47 years old.