DVSS JANUARY 2023 (BIRTH STATISTICS RIZAL INDICATORS)
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2023-022
DVSS JANUARY 2023 (BIRTH STATISTICS RIZAL INDICATORS) This report summarizes the administrative data gathered from January 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: Four thousand and eight hundred fifty six (4,856) for birth. This represents 0.44% increase from the 4,814 registered vital events from the previous month. BIRTH STATISTICS Province of Rizal recorded 3,131 timely registered births for the month of January 2023. City of Antipolo had the highest contribution of live births with 1,027 followed by Montalban with 426 and Taytay with 340. Municipality of Jalajala had the least contribution with 15 live births (see Table B). There were almost 101 newborn babies daily in the province for the month of January 2023. The timely data recorded presented 52.73 percent for the males and 47.27 percent for the females. It means that male born babies were higher by only 5.46 percent than the female born babies for this month. About 2,340 births (74.74%) were attended by physicians followed by Midwife which is 628 (20.06%), while 155 (4.95 %) were attended by Hilot, 3 (0.10%) by nurse and 5 (0.16%) were attended by other type of attendant at birth (See Table C). 32.80 percent or 1,027 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 three (3) birth registration and Jala-jala with nine (9). Thirty four point forty (1,077) babies born in Rizal were legitimate. City of Antipolo posted the highest legitimacy percentage of 28.13% (303) of the total born children in the province of Rizal as well as the highest illegitimacy percentage of 35.25% (724) 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 922 occurrences (29.45%). Teenage mothers (19 years old and below) listed 253 births or 8.08% in which; ten (10) teenage mother were age under 15. The non-fertile age group (45 years old and over) showed fertility performance with ten (10) recorded live births or 0.32 percent. (See Table D). TECHNICAL NOTE: 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.
