DVSS AUGUST 2022 (BIRTH STATISTICS RIZAL INDICATORS)
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2022-069
DVSS AUGUST 2022 (BIRTH STATISTICS RIZAL INDICATORS) This report summarizes the administrative data gathered from August 2022 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 sixty eight (4,868) for birth. This represents 5.44% decrease from the 4,366 registered vital events from the previous month. BIRTH STATISTICS Province of Rizal recorded 3,102 timely registered births for the month of August 2022. City of Antipolo had the highest contribution of live births with 1,149 followed by Montalban with 422 and Taytay with 324. Municipality of Jalajala had the least contribution with 11 live births (see Table B). There were almost 100 newborn babies daily in the province for the month of August 2022. The timely data recorded presented 52.35 percent for the males and 47.65 percent for the females. It means that male born babies were higher by only 4.70 percent than the female born babies for this month. About 2,247 births (72.44%) were attended by physicians followed by Midwife which is 657 (21.18%), while 193 (6.22 %) 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). 31.50 percent or 977 of the mothers in the province had their first-born during the reference month. Out of the fourteen (14) city/municipalities, Baras, Pililla and Tanay have no recorded birth attended by physicians, followed by Jalajala with eight (8) birth registration and Cardona with fourteen (14). Thirty two point zero eight (995) babies born in Rizal were legitimate. City of Antipolo posted the highest legitimacy percentage of 29.65% (295) of the total born children in the province of Rizal as well as the highest illegitimacy percentage of 40.53% (854) 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 919 occurrences (29.63%). Teenage mothers (19 years old and below) listed 245 births or 7.90% in which; three (3) 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).
