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This Special Release presents data on death certificates registered at the Local Civil Registry Offices in the city and seven municipalities of the province for the first semester 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 Kalinga reached 267 in the 1st semester of 2022. This is 32.96 percent higher than the recorded number of teenage mothers in the same semester of 2021. In the 2nd semester of 2021, the figure is at 264.
About Two in Every Three Teenage Mothers is Listed in Tabuk City
By municipality, Tabuk City and Pinukpuk recorded the greatest number of teenage moms at 197 and 39 in the 1st semester of 2022. The registered births in these 2 municipalities comprises 88.39 percent of the total teenage mothers listed in the province. This is followed by the Municipalities of Rizal and Pasil at 11 teenage moms or 8.24 percent. In the same semester of 2021, Tabuk City is still the municipality with the highest number of teenage mothers. Comparing the number of registered teenage mothers in Tabuk City in the 1st semester of 2021 to 2022, the 141 teenage moms in this city increased to 56 in 2022.
13-Year-Old Girl- Youngest Mother
The youngest age of a mother that gave birth in the first semester of 2022 is 14 years old. It is the same quarter last year, the youngest age of a mother that gave birth is 14 years old.
According to birth order, the youngest mother who already gave birth to her 2nd child is 16 years old while the youngest who already bore her 3rd child is 18 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 4th child is 18 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 Kalinga in the 1st semester of 2022 at 1,447 births. This is 5.32 percent higher than the female births at 1,370.
The high difference of male births to their female counterparts in the City of Tabuk City contributed to the higher number of male births in the province. Rizal and Tinglayan registered 9 more males than females while Pinukpuk have 8 more males than females.
It is also observed that Pasil posted the highest number of female difference as it registered 15 more females than male births while Balbalan has 8 more females than males. Sex difference in other municipalities is minimal.
Six in Every Ten Births are Registered Timely
Of the 2,817 registered births in the province in the 1st semester of 2022, 1,738 births or 61.70 percent are registered timely. This means that 6 in every 10 births are registered timely. Tabuk City having the greatest number of births recorded 1,490 timely registered births. Six municipalities- Balbalan, Lubuagan, Pasil, Pinukpuk, Tanudan and Tinglayan have more late than timely registrations.
Tabuk City on the other hand has the highest number of late registrations for birth. Of the 1,901 births registered in this city, 411 births are late registrations. This is far
higher compared to the births registered late in the different municipalities in the province.
According to sex, 61.51 percent of the male births are registered timely while 61.90 percent for females.
About One in Every Two Births in the Province are Illegitimate
Of the 2,817 births in the province in the 1st semester of 2022, 1,620 births or 57.51 percent are illegitimate. This means that about one in every two babies was born out of wedlock.
Categorizing by sex, illegitimate births are slightly higher among male babies than females. 50.92 percent of all the male births registered are illegitimate. In comparison, 49.07 percent of all female births are also born to unmarried parents.
Of the different municipalities, about six in every ten births in Tabuk City are illegitimate. Meanwhile, Tanudan recorded same number of male and female legitimate and illegitimate born child.
About Three in Every Ten Births are First Born
According to birth order, 33 percent are first born children. This translates to about three in every ten births in the province in the 1st semester of this year are first born. In addition, 25.53 percent are 2nd born and 18.34 percent are third born babies.
It is also observed that one mother gave birth to her 14th child in the municipality of Tinglayan; and another for her 12th child in Tanudan.
In addition, there is a 24-year-old girl who gave birth to her 6th child and a 29-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, 54.63 percent are attended by physicians; 15.48 percent are attended by midwives and 2.16 percent are attended by nurses. The remaining percentage are either attended by hilot and others.
About One in Every Four Mothers Who Gave Birth is 25 to 29 Years Old
Of the total women who gave birth in the 1st semester of 2022, 24.81 percent are under the age group 25 to 29 years old. This is followed by age group 20 to 24 years old at 21.48 percent and age group 30 to 34 years old at 19.56 percent.
According to single year, the highest number of mothers who gave birth this semester is those aged 28 years old at 152 births. This means that about 2 in every 5 women who gave birth this semester is aged 25 years.
The oldest mother who bore a child this quarter is 49 years old.
Live Birth - the complete expulsion or extraction of a product of conception from its mother, irrespective of the duration of 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 off or the placenta is still attached.
MARIBEL M. DALAYDAY
Chief Statistical Specialist
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