DVSS APRIL 2023 (BIRTH STATISTICS RIZAL INDICATORS)
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2023-056
DVSS APRIL 2023 (BIRTH STATISTICS RIZAL INDICATORS) This report summarizes the administrative data gathered from April 2023 documents submitted by the local civil registry offices of the thirteen municipalities and a city in the province of Rizal. The province generated the following statistics: Three thousand and three hundred sixty one (3,361) for birth. This represents 16.88% decrease from the 4,727 registered vital events from the previous month. Province of Rizal recorded 2,216 timely registered births for the month of April 2023. City of Antipolo had the highest contribution of live births with 800 followed by Montalban with 295 and Binangonan and Taytay with 202. Municipality of Jalajala had the least contribution with 4 live births (see Table B). There were almost 73 newborn babies daily in the province for the month of April 2023. The timely data recorded presented 51.85 percent for the males and 48.15 percent for the females. It means that male born babies were higher by only 3.7 percent than the female born babies were for this month. About 1,725 births (77.84%) were attended by physicians followed by Midwife which is 382 (17.24%), while 107 (4.83%) were attended by Hilot, 1 (0.05%) by nurse and 1 (0.05%) were attended by other type of attendant at birth (See Table C). 32.49 percent or 720 of the mothers in the province had their first-born during the reference month. Out of the fourteen (14) city/municipalities, Baras and Pililla have no recorded birth attended by physicians, followed by Tanay with one (1) birth registration and Jalajala with two (2). Forty-five point sixty seven (801) babies born in Rizal were legitimate. City of Antipolo posted the highest legitimacy percentage of 28.59% (229) of the total born children in the province of Rizal as well as the highest illegitimacy percentage of 26.02% (248) born this month (see Figure I). City of Antipolo has the biggest gap between legitimate and illegitimate. Modal age group for mothers was at 25 to 29 years old with 680 occurrences (30.70%). Teenage mothers (19 years old and below) listed 159 births or 7.18% in which; five (5) teenage mother were age under 15. The non-fertile age group (45 years old and over) showed fertility performance with three (3) recorded live births or 0.14 percent. (See Table D).
