Data on marriages presented in this special release were obtained from the Certificates of Marriage submitted by the Office of the City/Municipal Civil Registrars in their monthly report throughout the region to the Philippine Statistics Authority – Provincial Statistical Offices (PSO). Said data were encoded or uploaded into the respective PSOs' Vital Events Information (VEI) system.  

Figures presented herein cover the 2nd quarter of 2024 and are still preliminary and may differ in the final counts.

Registered Marriages in the Region decreased

•    There were 2,128 registered marriages for the 2nd quarter of 2024 showing a decrease of 13 percent from the same quarter of last year’s figure of 2,443.

•    The province of Benguet excluding Baguio City has the most number of registered marriages, accounting for almost 27 out of every 100 marriages in the Region. Followed by Baguio City with 22 per 100 marriages.

•    Ifugao had the highest decrease registered at 70 percent followed by Benguet with 18 percent and Mountain Province with 44 percent. Meanwhile, Baguio City had an increase of 4 percent.

•    Ifugao has the fewest registered marriages in the Cordillera Administrative Region, accounting for 8 in every 100 marriages recorded.

•    For this quarter, almost 24 marriages on average were registered in the Region or 1 marriage in every hour.

Figure 1. Number of Registered Marriages by Highly Urbanized City/Province: CAR,
2nd Quarter 2024 and 2nd Quarter 2023

Registered marriage peak in April for the 2nd Quarter

•    Registered marriages occurred the most in April with 37%, followed by June and May, with 32% and 31%, respectively.

Figure 2. Number of Registered Marriages by Month: CAR, 
2nd Quarter 2024

Majority of marriages in the region are registered in Benguet

•    Baguio City has the highest percentage of marriages recorded among the cities in the Region at 78 percent, the City of Tabuk comes second with 22 percent.

•    The majority of recorded marriages in the Region are in the province of Benguet, La Trinidad with 157, Itogon with 68, Tuba with 60, Buguias with 54, and Tublay with 44.

Figure 3. Cities/Municipalities with the Most Number of Marriage Registration: 
CAR, 2nd Quarter 2024

Ninety-seven percent of marriages were registered on time

•    Ninety-seven percent of marriages in the Cordillera Administrative Region were registered on time while 3 percent were registered late.

•    Among the provinces, Benguet had the highest number of timely registered marriages with 572, followed by Kalinga with 276, Abra with 256, Ifugao with 170, Apayao with 168, and Mountain Province with 167. Conversely, Abra reported the highest number of late registered marriages with 16.

Figure 4. Number of timely and late Registered Marriages: CAR,
2nd Quarter 2024

(SGD)
VILLAFE P. ALIBUYOG
Regional Director
PSA - RSSO CAR

TECHNICAL NOTES

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, fetal 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 register is known as vital or civil registration and the resulting documents are called vital records.

Marriage is a special contract of permanent union between a man and a woman entered into in accordance with law for the establishment of conjugal and family life.