This special release presents statistics on vital events occurring for the third quarter of 2023 in the municipality of Asipulo, Ifugao. This publication shows the total registered birth, marriage, and death statistics by registration status, sex, legitimacy status, age, type of ceremony, and place type. The civil registry documents transmitted monthly by the Local Civil Registry Office (LCRO)-Asipulo to Ifugao Provincial Statistical Office for machine processing served as the source of data in preparation of this special release.

The municipality of Asipulo has registered a total of 49 civil registry documents for the third quarter of 2023. Birth took the highest registrations with a total of 31 or 63.3% of the total registered live births, followed by Death with 13 or 26.5% and Marriage with 5 or 10.2%.

BIRTH REGISTRATION
For the third quarter of 2023, the municipality of Asipulo has accumulated a total of 31 registrations on live birth. It is higher by 19% from the total registered live births during the second quarter. 
By gender disaggregation, there were more female registration with 58.1% than male registration with 41.9%.
There were no records of live births with teenage mothers.
For the total registered live births by month, the month of September has the highest registration with 45.2% of the total registered live births. It was followed by the month of July and August with 35.5% and 19.4%, respectively.

Table 1 illustrates the total registered live births by registration, that 83.9% were timely registered and 16.1% were registered after the reglementary period, some of it were registered through the PBRAP or PhilSys Birth Registration Assistance Project wherein this project aims to register unregistered and/or delayed births. Timely registered births were higher by 21 than timely registered births. The month of September recorded the highest for timely registered births while the months of August and September recorded the highest for delayed birth registrations.

Figure 1 indicates the total of registered live births by legitimacy status, there were 24 or 77.4% live births with legitimate status and a total of 7 or 22.6% live births with unmarried parents. Legitimate babies were higher by 17. Therefore, more babies were born of wedlock.

By place type of birth, a total of 27 or 87.1% were born at different medical facilities like birthing clinics, rural health units, and hospitals. Home births totaled to 4 or 12.9% of the total registered live births. There was no record of live births in other places.

MARRIAGE REGISTRATION
The municipality of Asipulo has a total of 5 registered marriages for the third quarter of 2023. It is lower by 82% from the total registered marriages during the second quarter.
For the total registered marriages by month, the month of August recorded the most with 80%. It was followed by the month of September with 20%, there was no occurrence of marriages in the month of July. By registration status, all 5 marriages were registered within the reglementary period of 30 days.

Figure 2 presents the total registered marriages by place type of ceremony that among the types of ceremonies, wedding rites officiated by the Roman Catholic church and the municipal mayor had the highest registered marriages both with 40%, followed by the wedding rites officiated by other religious sectors with 20%. There was no occurrence of weddings solemnized by any tribal religion.

Figure 3 shows the total registered marriages by place type that among the place types for marriage, weddings held at the church had the highest registered number of marriages with 60%. Followed by weddings held at the church and other specified places both with 20%. There was no occurrence of weddings held at their respective homes.

DEATH REGISTRATION
For death registration in the third quarter of 2023, the municipality of Asipulo has recorded a total of 13 deaths, it is higher by 18% from second quarters’ total of death registrations.
For the total registered deaths by month, the month of July and September recorded the most, both with 38.5%. It was followed by the months of August with 23%. More so, by sex disaggregation, 53.8% were females and 46.2% were males.

Table 2 shows the total registered deaths by civil status wherein deaths with single status were at 15.4%, married at 30.8% and widow/widowers with 53.9%. Moreover, majority were registered within the reglementary period of 30 days.

For the total registered deaths by place type, all deaths registered for the municipality of Asipulo occurred at medical facilities. There was no occurrence of death in their homes nor in any other specified places.

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 municipality of Asipulo.

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 July to September 2023.

DELANO C. BOLISLIS, JR.
Chief Statistical Specialist