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

Figures presented herein cover the 4th quarter of 2023 and 2024 and are still preliminary and may differ in the final counts.

Registered Marriages in the Region decreased by 16.8 percent

•    There were 1,531 registered marriages for the 4th quarter of 2024 showing a decrease of 16.8 percent from the same quarter of last year’s figure of 1,842.

•    The City of Baguio had the most registered marriages with 431 followed by the Province of Benguet with 428. Mountain Province had the fewest registered marriages in the region with 92 only.

•    Across all provinces, only Apayao had an increase in the number of marriages registered from the same quarter last year.

•    Seventeen marriages on the average were registered daily in the region for the 4th quarter of 2024.

Figure 1. Number of Registered Marriages by Province: CAR
4th Quarter 2024 and 4th Quarter 2023

Marriages Peak in December

•    In the fourth quarter of 2024, registered marriages were mostly recorded in December with 709 or 46.3 percent followed by October with 486. The least number of marriages in the Region was registered in November with 336.

Figure 2. Number of Registered Marriages by Month: CAR
4th Quarter 2024 

The Majority of Marriages in the Region were Registered in Benguet

•    Baguio City had the highest percentage of marriages recorded among the cities in the Region at 86.8 percent, while La Trinidad had the highest among the Municipalities in the Region at 13.2 percent.

•    The majority of recorded marriages in the Region were in the province of Benguet. La Trinidad with 137, Tuba with 70, Itogon with 48, Buguias with 39, Tublay with 32, and Mankayan with 31.

Figure 3. Municipalities/Cities with the Most Number of Registered Marriages: CAR 
4th Quarter 2024

Abra had the most Municipalities with the least number of Registered Marriages

•    As of the fourth quarter of 2024, the province of Abra had the municipalities in the region with a low number of marriages registered, ranging from 1 to 3.

Figure 4. Municipalities with the Least Number of Registered Marriages: CAR 
4th Quarter 2024

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

GAT/EEE

 
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.