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Number of Teenage Mothers is 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 182 in the 2nd semester of 2022. This was 54.24 percent higher than the listed number of teenage moms in the same semester of 2021 at 118. In the 2nd semester of 2020, the figure was at 153.
About Five in Every Ten Teenage Mothers are Listed in Bauko
By municipality, Bauko recorded the highest number of teenage moms in the 2nd semester of 2022. This comprised 45.05 percent of all the registered teenage mothers in the province. This was followed by Paracelis at 55 teenage moms. The registered births in these 2 municipalities covered 75.27 percent of the total teenage mothers listed in Mountain Province. In the same semester of 2021, Bauko was still the municipality with the highest number of teenage mothers. Sabangan was the only municipality with no reported teenage mothers in the 2nd semester of this year.
13-Year-Old Girl- Youngest Mother
The youngest age of a mother who gave birth in the 2nd semester of 2022 was 13 years old. In the same semester of 2021, the youngest age of a mother who gave birth was 14 years old.
According to birth order, the youngest mother who already gave birth to her 2nd child was 16 years old; for her 3rd child was 18 years old; for her 4th child was 20 years old; and the youngest who already bore her 5th child was 20 years old.
In the same semester of 2021, the youngest mother who bore her 2nd child was 16 years old while the youngest who gave birth to her 4th child was 19 years old.
Males Slightly Outnumbered Females in Terms of Registered Births
According to sex, it was noted that there were more males than females who were born in Mountain Province in the 2nd semester of 2022 at 1,120 births. This was 7.07 percent higher than the female births at 1,046.
The difference of male births to their female counterparts in 6 municipalities contributed to the higher number of male births in the province. Bontoc registered 22 more males than females while Bauko had 18 more boys than girls.
It was also observed that Natonin posted the highest number of female difference as it registered 7 more female than male births. Paracelis and Tadian had the same number of births for both sexes at 178 and 19 births respectively.
About Eight in Every Ten Births are Registered Timely
Of the 2,166 registered births in the province in the 2nd semester of 2022, 1,716 births or 79.22 percent were registered timely. Bauko having the highest number of births recorded 1,031 timely registered births while all births in Sabangan were late registrations. Four municipalities-Barlig, Sadanga, Sagada and Tadian had more late than timely registrations.
Paracelis on the other hand had the highest number of late registrations for birth. Of the 356 births registered in this municipality in the semester, 183 births were late registrations. This was far higher compared to the births registered late in the different municipalities of the province.
According to sex, 79.55 percent of the male births were registered timely while 78.87 percent of the female births were also registered timely.
About Four in Every Ten Births in the Province are Illegitimate
Of the 2,166 births in Mountain Province in the 2nd semester of 2022, 787 births or 36.33 percent were illegitimate. This means that about 4 in every 10 babies registered in the province in the 2nd semester were born out of wedlock.
It was also noted that illegitimate births in Paracelis was slightly higher than legitimate babies. Of the total births registered in this municipality, 50.56 percent were illegitimate. This means that about 5 in every 10 births in this municipality in the 2nd semester of 2022 were born to unmarried parents.
Categorizing by sex, illegitimate births was higher among male than female babies. 36.52 percent of the male births registered in the 2nd semester were illegitimate. In comparison, 36.14 percent of all female births were also born to unmarried parents.
All female births registered in the semester in Sabangan were legitimate.
About Three in Every Ten Births are First Born
According to birth order, 29.22 percent were first born children. This translates to about three in every ten births in the province in the 2nd semester this year were first born babies. In addition, 26.45 percent were 2nd born and 20.91 percent were third born babies. The mother with the highest number of children who gave birth in the 2nd semester this year bore her 15th child.
In addition, the woman who gave birth to her 15th child was 44 years old and was registered in the municipality of Sadanga.
About Seven in Every Ten Births in the Province are Attended by a Physician
Of the total births registered in the province, 73.78 percent were attended by physicians; 3.28 percent were attended by midwives and 1.89 percent were attended by nurses. The remaining percentage was either attended by hilot/ unlicensed midwives or 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 2nd semester of 2022, 25.07 percent were under the age group 25 to 29 years old. This was followed by age group 20 to 24 years old at 21.33 percent and age group 30 to 34 years old at 21.24 percent.
According to single year, the highest number of mothers who gave birth this semester was aged 29 years old at 65 births. This means that about 3 in every 100 women who gave birth this semester was aged 29 years old.
The oldest mother who bore a child this semester was 47 years old.
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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 the umbilical cord has been cut off or the placenta is still attached.
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