DVSS MARCH 2023 (BIRTH STATISTICS RIZAL INDICATORS)
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2023-044
DVSS MARCH 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 seven hundred twenty seven (4,727) for birth. This represents 1.34% decrease from the 4,856 registered vital events from the previous month. BIRTH STATISTICS Province of Rizal recorded 3,012 timely registered births for the month of March 2023. City of Antipolo had the highest contribution of live births with 1,177 followed by Montalban with 416 and Taytay with 272. Municipality of Jalajala had the least contribution with 3 live births (see Table B). There were almost 97 newborn babies daily in the province for the month of March 2023. The timely data recorded presented 52.39 percent for the males and 47.61 percent for the females. It means that male born babies were higher by only 4.78 percent than the female born babies were for this month. About 2,267 births (75.27%) were attended by physicians followed by Midwife which is 567 (18.82%), while 173 (5.74 %) were attended by Hilot, 1 (0.03%) by nurse and 4 (0.13%) were attended by other type of attendant at birth (See Table C). 34.00 percent or 1,024 of the mothers in the province had their first-born during the reference month. Out of the fourteen (14) city/municipalities, Baras, Jalajala and Pililla have no recorded birth attended by physicians, followed by Tanay with two (2) birth registration and Cardona with ten (10). Thirty-two point ninety seven (1,077) babies born in Rizal were legitimate. City of Antipolo posted the highest legitimacy percentage of 34.34% (341) of the total born children in the province of Rizal as well as the highest illegitimacy percentage of 41.41% (836) 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 888 occurrences (29.48%). Teenage mothers (19 years old and below) listed 227 births or 7.54% in which; four (4) teenage mother were age under 15. The non-fertile age group (45 years old and over) showed fertility performance with seven (7) recorded live births or 0.23 percent. (See Table D).
