DVSS FEBRUARY 2023 (BIRTH STATISTICS RIZAL INDICATORS)
Release-Date
Reference-Number
2023-036
Province of Rizal recorded 2,602 timely registered births for the month of February 2023. City of Antipolo had the highest contribution of live births with 855 followed by Montalban with 391 and Taytay with 248. Municipality of Jalajala had the least contribution with 14 live births (see Table B). There were almost 93 newborn babies daily in the province for the month of February 2023. The timely data recorded presented 52.88 percent for the males and 47.12 percent for the females. It means that male born babies were higher by only 5.76 percent than the female born babies for this month. About 1,913 births (73.52%) were attended by physicians followed by Midwife which is 523 (20.10%), while 161 (6.19 %) were attended by Hilot, none (0.00%) by nurse and 5 (0.19%) were attended by other type of attendant at birth (See Table C). 32.90 percent or 856 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 two (2) birth registration and Jala-jala with seven (7). Thirty four point eighty six (907) babies born in Rizal were legitimate. City of Antipolo posted the highest legitimacy percentage of 28.11% (255) of the total born children in the province of Rizal as well as the highest illegitimacy percentage of 35.40% (600) 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 779 occurrences (29.94%). Teenage mothers (19 years old and below) listed 205 births or 7.88% in which; four (4) teenage mother were age under 15. The non-fertile age group (45 years old and over) showed fertility performance with fourteen (14) recorded live births or 0.54 percent. (See Table D).
