Marriage Statistics: December 2018 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 Marriage Statistics in Quezon presented in this report contains highlights and summary of statistical tables of marriages that occurred on or before December 2018 and registered within the said month. Events that occurred in December 2018 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. Number of Marriages… A total of 981 marriages were registered in Quezon in December 2018. It recorded an increase of 69.4 percent from the previous month’s total of 579. The daily average of registered marriages during the month was 32, higher than the recorded daily average of 19 in November. Marrriages by Place of Occurence... Sariaya (136 or 13.9 percent) had the highest number of registered marriages. It was followed by Lucena City (102 or 10.4 percent). San Francisco (97 or 9.9 percent) and Atimonan (70 or 7.1 percent) recorded the next highest registered marriages. More than one-third of the 41 municipalities/cities in the province registered less than 10 marriage occurrences during the month. Marriages by Type of Ceremony… Almost half of the registered marriages were solemnized under civil ceremonies, with 488 or 49.7 percent. Marriages performed under church rites totaled 442 accounting for 45.1 percent of the total registered marriages. Marriages celebrated under other types of ceremonies comprised only 5.2 percent. See more at ISSN 405 Data Herald 2018 December Marriage
