Marriage Statistics: March 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 March 2019 and registered within the said month. Events that occurred in March 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 947 marriages were registered in Quezon in March 2019. It recorded an increase of 61.3 percent from the previous month’s total of 587. The daily average of registered marriages during the month was 31, higher than the recorded daily average of 21 in February. Marriages by Place of Occurrence… Gumaca (190 or 20.1 percent) had the highest number of registered marriages. It was followed by San Narciso (93 or 9.8 percent). Sariaya (68 or 7.2 percent) and Lucena City (61 or 6.4 percent) recorded the next highest registered marriages. Around 36.6 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 municipalities of Pitogo and Quezon. Marriages by Type of Ceremony… Most of the registered marriages were solemnized under civil ceremonies, with 560 or 59.1 percent. Marriages performed under church rites totaled 357 accounting for 37.7 percent of the total registered marriages. There were two (0.2 percent) registered marriages celebrated under Muslim rites. Marriages celebrated under other types of ceremonies comprised only 3.0 percent. See more at ISSN 421 Data Herald 2019 March Marriage
