MARRIAGE STATISTICS IN QUEZON: January 2023 (Preliminary Results)
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2023-066
Number of Marriages… There were 823 marriages registered in Quezon in January 2023. It recorded an increase of 4.4 percent from the previous month’s total of 788. The daily average of registered marriages during the month was 27, higher than the recorded daily average of 25 in December 2022. Marriages by Place of Occurrence… Lucena City (115 or 14.0 percent) had the highest number of registered marriages, followed by Sariaya (91 or 11.1 percent) and Candelaria (76 or 9.2 percent). Tiaong (54 or 6.6 percent) and City of Tayabas (49 or 6.0 percent) recorded the next highest registered marriages. Around 34.1 percent of the 41 municipalities/cities in the province registered less than 10 marriage occurrences during the month. There was no registered marriage event in the island municipality of Jomalig. Marriages by Type of Ceremony… The most number of registered marriages was solemnized under church rites, with 474 or 57.6 percent. Marriages performed under civil rites totaled 274 accounting for 33.3 percent of the total registered marriages. Marriages celebrated under other types of ceremonies comprised 9.1 percent. Marriages by Age Group of Groom and Bride… The highest recorded number of brides and grooms belonged to age group 25-29 years, with 336 (40.8 percent) and 346 (42.0 percent), respectively. There were forty-one (41) teen brides and ten (10) teen grooms in January. Marriages by Previous Marital Status of Groom and Bride… Almost all of the couples were first timers or single brides (817) and grooms (810) prior to the marriage. Only a small percentage of brides and grooms were widow/ widower and divorced prior to the marriage. Marriages by Nationality of Groom and Bride… About 98.1 percent of the grooms and all of the brides were Filipinos in the registered marriages in January. Intermarriages between Filipino brides and grooms of foreign descent were with American, British, Canadian, Japanese, Lebanese, Romanian and Taiwanese. (SGD.) AIRENE A. PUCYUTAN Chief Statistical Specialist PSA Quezon NDP/PFVM/NRSU
