The data presented in this special release were obtained from the vital events registered, either timely or belatedly, at the Office of the City Civil Registrar of Las Piñas and subsequently submitted for encoding to the Office of the Civil Registrar General through the Provincial Statistical Offices (PSOs) of the Philippine Statistics Authority(PSA). The information presented includes provisional vital events that occurred from January to August 2022 based on data files received by the PSA - Civil Registration Service(CRS) from the PSOs and processed initially as of 30 September 2022. Thus, the figures presented herein are still preliminary and may differ from the final count.

 In the first eight months of 2022, the City of Las Piñas records more than 3,500 live births.

 As of 30 September 2022, the City of Las Piñas had registered a total of 3,519 live births. This contributed to 4.34 percent of the 81,170 total number of registered live births in the National Capital Region(NCR). The city ranked eighth based on the number of registered live births in the region. (See Figure 1)

 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority, Civil Registration Service, Vital Statistics Division (Preliminary Results)

The number of live births accounted for the months of January to August of 2022 exhibited a decrease of -38.07 percent from the 5,682 total registered live births in the same months of 2021. Registered live births for males were recorded at 1,884 or 54 percent, while the remaining 1,635 or 46 percent were females. This gave a sex ratio of 115 males per 100 females born in the city as registered in the first eight months of 2022. (See Figures 2 and 3)

Source: Philippine Statistics Authority, Civil Registration Service, Vital Statistics Division (Preliminary Results)

Source: Philippine Statistics Authority, Civil Registration Service, Vital Statistics Division (Preliminary Results)

More than 2000 people died in the City of Las Piñas between January and August of 2022, according to statistics.

A total of 2,116 death occurrences were registered from January to August 2022 in the City of Las Piñas. This gave a percentage share of about 4.80 percent of the 44,048 total number of registered deaths in NCR on the same reference period. Based on the number of deaths in the region, the city ranked eighth with Quezon City on top of the board. (See Figure 4)

Source: Philippine Statistics Authority, Civil Registration Service, Vital Statistics Division (Preliminary Results)

The reported figure of registered deaths from January to August 2022 showed a decrease of 1,439 death occurrences, or -40.48 percent lower than the previous year of the same reference period. The 56 percent, or 1,184, of the death occurrences in the city from January to August 2022 were male, while the remaining 44 percent or 932 were female. As to the sex ratio, there are 127 males that die for every 100 females in the City of Las Piñas. (See Figures 5 and 6)

Source: Philippine Statistics Authority, Civil Registration Service, Vital Statistics Division (Preliminary Results)

Source: Philippine Statistics Authority, Civil Registration Service, Vital Statistics Division (Preliminary Results)

City of Las Piñas at number five in the number of registered marriages in the NCR.

The city accounted a total of 1,317 marriage occurrences in the first eight months of 2022. This contributed to 4.19 percent of the 31,444 total marriages in the National Capital Region for the same reference period. City of Las Piñas ranked fifth in the highest number of registered marriages in the prime region. (See Figure 7)

Source: Philippine Statistics Authority, Civil Registration Service, Vital Statistics Division (Preliminary Results)

The number of registered marriages obtained from January to August of 2022 displayed an increase of 17.59 percent from the 1,120 total registered marriages in the same reference period of the previous year. (See Figure 8)

Source: Philippine Statistics Authority, Civil Registration Service, Vital Statistics Division (Preliminary Results)

Source: Philippine Statistics Authority, Civil Registration Service, Vital Statistics Division (Preliminary Results)

Source: Philippine Statistics Authority, Civil Registration Service, Vital Statistics Division (Preliminary Results)

Technical Notes

Civil Registration is the recording in the appropriate civil registers, vital acts and events that affect the civil status of individuals.

Vital Statistics are derived from information obtained at the time when the occurrences of vital events and their characteristics are inscribed in a civil register.

Vital acts and events are the births, deaths, fetal deaths, marriages, and all such events that have something to do with an individual's entrance and departure from life together with the changes in civil status that may occur to a person during his lifetime. Recording of these events in the civil register is known as vital or civil registration and the resulting documents are called vital records.

• Live Birth - is the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of conception, irrespective of the duration of pregnancy, which, after such separation, breathes or shows any other evidence of life, such as beating of the heart, pulsation of umbilical cord, or definite movement of the voluntary muscles. Whether or not the umbilical cord has been cut or the placenta is attached; each product of such a birth is considered live born.

• Marriage - is a special contract of permanent union between a man and a woman entered into in accordance with law for the establishment of conjugal and family life.

• Death - refers to the permanent disappearance of all evidence of life at any time after live birth has taken place.

• Counts on Births - include babies born in the Philippines whose mother’s usual residence is in a foreign country.

• Counts on Deaths - include individuals who died in the Philippines whose usual residence is in a foreign country.

• Sex Ratio - refers to the number of males per one hundred females.

• Usual Residence - refers to the place where the person habitually or permanently resides.

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(SGD) ESTRELLA R. VARGAS

Chief Statistical Specialist