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 Parañaque 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 Parañaque registers nearly 4,000 live births.

As of 30 September 2022, the City of Parañaque had registered a total of 3,913 live births. This contributed to 4.82 percent of the 81,170 total number of registered live births in the National Capital Region(NCR). The city ranked seventh 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 -37.99 percent from the 6,310 total registered live births in the same months of 2021. Registered live births for males were recorded at 2,069 or 53 percent, while the remaining 1,844 or 47 percent were females. This gave a sex ratio of 112 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)

Statistics show that between January and August of 2022, more than 2,200 people died in the City of Parañaque.

A total of 2,246 death occurrences were registered from January to August 2022 in the City of Parañaque. This gave a percentage share of about 5.10 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 sixth 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 1,375 death occurrences, or -37.97 percent lower than the previous year of the same reference period. The 55 percent, or 1,236, of the death occurrences in the city from January to August 2022 were male, while the remaining 45 percent or 1,010 were female. As to the sex ratio, there are 122 males that die for every 100 females in the City of Parañaque. (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 Parañaque at number eleven in the number of registered marriages in the NCR.

The city accounted a total of 931 marriage occurrences in the first eight months of 2022. This contributed to 2.96 percent of the 31,444 total marriages in the National Capital Region for the same reference period. City of Parañaque ranked ninth 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 2.31 percent from the 910 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