Birth Statistics: February 2019 Quezon (Preliminary Results)
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Vital registration is a continuous process. Hence there is a need to specify certain cut-off period for purposes of reporting. The Birth Statistics in Quezon presented in this report contains highlights and summary of statistical tables of births that occurred on or before February 2019 and registered within the said month. Events that occurred in February 2019 but were not registered during the month were not included in this publication. For this report, Decentralized Vital Statistics System (DVSS) 2011 was used in data encoding. In the generation of DVSS tables however, CSPro 7.1 was utilized. Live births… A total of 3,602 live births were registered in the province in February 2019. It recorded a decrease of 13.9 percent from the January figure of 4,185. The daily average of birth occurrences during the month was 129. Of the total births registered, 50.3 percent were males and 49.7 percent were females. This resulted to a birth sex ratio of 101 males for every 100 females. Lucena City recorded the highest number of live births with a total of 1,026 or 28.5 percent of the total births registered in the province. It was followed by Lopez with a total of 240 or 6.7 percent. The least number of registered births was observed in the municipality of Plaridel with only one (1) or 0.03 percent. Attendant at Birth... The 2,624 (72.8 percent) birth deliveries were attended to by medically trained personnel such as physicians, nurses and midwives.Among the medically trained personnel, physicians attended to the most number of deliveries with 1,633 or 45.3 percent of the total births registered. See more at ISSN 417 Data Herald 2019 February Birth
A total of 4,303 live births were registered in the province in October 2023. It recorded a decrease of 0.7 percent from the September 2023 figure of 4,335.
