Year 2024 is a leap year and the province of Ifugao has recorded a total of 5 babies that were born on February 29, 2024.
The municipality of Lamut has recorded 3 births, Banaue and Alfonso Lista both with 1 recorded birth each.
As for the oldest death in the province, with Severe Pneumonia as the cause of death, 100 years old was recorded as the oldest death which occurred in the municipality of Lagawe.
 

For Birth Statistics, the province of Ifugao has registered a total of 246 births for the month of February. There was a decrease of 61 or 20% from the total registered births in January.
For gender disaggregation, the total number of male registration with 50.40% outnumbered female registration with 49.59%.
For the place type, 50% of births took place at medical facilities like hospitals, clinics, birthing homes/clinics and rural health units. A total of 49% took place on their respective homes.  There was 1% occurrence of birth at a specified place.
For legitimacy status, 78% of the registered births are legitimated, the other 22% birth registrations were born with unmarried parents.
For the registrations status, 53% were registered within the reglementary period of 30 days. 
Whilst 47% were registered after the reglementary period. Some of the registered births were under the Birth Registration Assistance Project.
 

The municipality of Lamut, as always, has the highest registrations of birth for the whole province with a total of 66 or 27% of the total registered births. Hingyon has the lowest birth registrations with only 1 registered births.
The municipalities of Lamut and Alfonso Lista has both recorded 5 teenage mothers each, that gave birth for February. Aguinaldo with 3, Mayoyao with 2 and Tinoc with 1. Hence, there was a total of 16 teenage mothers for the province of Ifugao.

For Marriage Statistics, the province of Ifugao has registered a total of 135 marriages for the month of February. It has an increase of 66 or 96% from the total registered marriages registered in January.
For the place type, 19% of the total marriages took place at various churches, 60% at the mayor’s office, 1% at their respective homes and 20% were at other specified places.
For the type of ceremony, 8% was solemnized by the roman catholic church, 79% was solemnized under civil weddings, 12% was solemnized by different religious sectors. 1% was under tribal ceremony.
For the registrations status, 99% were registered within the reglementary period of 30 days. 
The municipalities of Banaue, Mayoyao and Aguinaldo has the highest registrations of marriages for the whole province each with a total of 23 or 17% of the total registered marriages. Kiangan has the lowest birth registrations with only 2 registered marriages. There was no occurrence of marriages in the municipality of Hingyon.
The oldest bride recorded for the month of February was 61 years old, and the oldest groom was 67 years old. Both were from the municipality of Lamut. 

For Death Statistics, the province of Ifugao has registered a total of 72 deaths for the month of February. There was a decrease of 13 or 15% from the total registered deaths in January.
For gender disaggregation, the total number of female registration with 51% outnumbered male registration with 49%.
For the place type, 24% of deaths took place at medical facilities like hospitals, clinics, birthing homes/clinics and rural health units. A total of 75% took place on their respective homes. There was 1% occurrence of death in other specified place.
For the civil status, 18% died single, 57% were married and 25% were widow/ers.
For the registrations status, 92% were registered within the reglementary period of 30 days. 
Whilst 8% were registered after the reglementary period. 

The municipality of Lamut has the highest number of registered deaths with 17 or 24% of the total. While Mayoyao has the lowest total of registrations with only 1%.
The recorded oldest death in the province was 100 years old that occurred in the municipality of Lagawe.  
 

DEFINITION OF TERMS

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 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 February 2024.

DELANO C. BOLISLIS, JR.
Chief Statistical Specialist