This special release presents statistics on vital events occurring for the second quarter of 2023 in the municipality of Banaue, 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)-Banaue to Ifugao Provincial Statistical Office for machine processing served as the source of data in preparation of this special release.

BIRTH REGISTRATION

For the second quarter of 2023, the municipality of Banaue has accumulated a total of 75 registrations on live birth. It is lower by 36.44% from the total registered live births during the first quarter.

By gender disaggregation, there were more female registration (61.3%) than male registration (38.7%).

For the total registered live births by month, the month of April has the highest registration or 37.33% of the total registered live births. It was followed by the month of April and June with 36% and 26.  67%, respectively.

Table 1 illustrates the total registered live births by registration, that 42.67% were timely registered and 57.33% were late or delayed registrations. Delayed registered births were higher by 11 than timely registered births. The month of April recorded the highest timely registered births, while the month of May recorded the highest delayed registration.

TABLE 1. Total Registered Live Births by Registration, Banaue 2^nd Quarter 2023

Figure 1 indicates the total of registered live births by legitimacy status that there were 86.67% legitimate babies and 13.33% were illegitimate babies. Legitimate babies were higher by 55. More babies were born of wedlock.

By place type of birth, a total of 23 or 30.7% were born at different medical facilities like birthing clinics, rural health units, and hospitals. Home births totaled to 52 or 69.3% of the total registered live births.

MARRIAGE REGISTRATION

The municipality of Banaue has a total of 47 registered marriages for the second quarter of 2023, it is higher by 59.6% from the total registered marriages during the first quarter.

For the total registered marriages by month, the month of April recorded the most at 72.34%. It was followed by the month of May and June with 14.89% and 12.77%, respectively. By registration status, 46 were timely registered, only one was registered late.

Figure 2 presents the total registered marriages by place type of ceremony that among the types of ceremonies, wedding rites officiated by the civil wedding rites had the highest registered marriages with 70.21%, followed by the Roman Catholic church and other religious rites both with 14.89%. 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 mayor’s office had the highest registered number of marriages with 46.81%. Followed by weddings held at other specified places and at the church with 25.53% and 21.28, respectively. Wedding held at their respective homes had the lowest at 6.38. There was no occurrence of weddings held at the barangay hall.

DEATH REGISTRATION

For death registration in the second quarter of 2023, the municipality of Banaue has recorded a total of 15 deaths, lower by 28.6% from first quarters’ total of death registrations.

For the total registered deaths by month, the month of June recorded the most with 40% deaths. It was followed by the month of May and April with 33.33% and 26.67, respectively. More so, by sex disaggregation, 53.33% were females and 46.67% were males.

Table 2 shows the total registered deaths by civil status wherein deaths with single status were at 13.33%, married at 53.33% and widow/widowers with 33.33%. Moreover, majority were registered within the reglementary period of 30 days.

TABLE 2. Total Registered Deaths by Civil and Registration status, Banaue:

2^nd Quarter 2023

For the total registered deaths by place type, deaths that occurred at home were at 93.3% and there was one occurrence of death in medical facilities.

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 Banaue.

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 April to June 2023.

DELANO C. BOLISLIS, JR.

Chief Statistical Specialist