Civil Registration is a continuous process. Hence, there is a need to establish certain cut-off period. The data presented herein are events that occurred from January to March 2019, registered at the Local Civil Registry Office of Pasay City until April 2019 and submitted to until June 2019. Caution must be employed in interpreting the data since the figures were not adjusted in consideration of under registration.

Pasay City registers less than one thousand five hundred live births in the first quarter of 2019.

From January to March of 2019, the Pasay City registered a total of 1,417 live births. This contributed to 2.97 percent of the 47,722 total number of registered live births in the whole National Capital Region (NCR). The city ranked thirteenth with the highest number of registered live births in NCR (See Figure 1).

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

The number of live births accounted for the first quarter of 2019 showed an increase of 30 percent from the 1,094 total registered live births in the same quarter of 2018. Registered live births for males were recorded at 751 or 53 percent while the remaining 666 or 47 percent were females. This gives a sex ratio of 113 males per 100 females born in the city as registered in the first cube of 2019 (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)

Death statistics in the Pasay City tolls to almost six hundred in the first quarter of 2019.

A total of 592 death occurrences were registered in the first quarter of 2019 in the Pasay City. This gave a percentage share of about three percent of the 19,749 total number of registered deaths in the NCR on the same period. The city ranked thirteenth on the most number of deaths in the NCR, 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 in the first quarter of 2019 showed an increase of 72 death occurrences or 14 percent higher than the previous year of the same quarter. The 55 percent or 327 of the death occurrences in the city from January to March of 2019 were males while the remaining 45 percent or 265 were females. As to sex ratio, there are 123 males that die for every 100 females in the Pasay City (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)

Pasay City at number four in the number of marriages in the National Capital Region.

The city accounted a total of 972 marriage occurrences in the first three months of 2019. This contributed to 6.77 percent of the 14,348 total marriages in the NCR on the same period. Pasay City ranked fourth in the highest number of marriage occurrences 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 for the first three months of 2019 showed an increase of 49 percent from the 651 total registered marriages in the same quarter 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

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.

• 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) BAMBIE A. VILLARUEL

Supervising Statistical Specialist

Officer-in-charge