Marriage Statistics: February 2019 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 February 2019 and registered within the said month. Events that occurred in February 2019 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 587 marriages were registered in Quezon in February 2019. It recorded a decrease of 41.1 percent from the previous month’s total of 997. The daily average of registered marriages during the month was 21, lower than the recorded daily average of 32 in January. Marriages by Place of Occurrence… Candelaria (66 or 11.2 percent) had the highest number of registered marriages. It was followed by Guinayangan (59 or 10.1 percent). Sariaya (50 or 8.5 percent) and Lucena City (44 or 7.5 percent) recorded the next highest registered marriages. Around 46.3 percent of 41 municipalities/cities in the province registered less than 10 marriage occurrences during the month. There was no marriage event recorded in the island municipalities of Jomalig and Quezon. Marriages by Type of Ceremony… Most of the registered marriages were solemnized under civil ceremonies, with 359 or 61.2 percent. Marriages performed under church rites totaled 194 accounting for 33.0 percent of the total registered marriages. See more at ISSN 416 Data Herald 2019 February Marriage
