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2022-0033
In Table 2, live births decreased by 20.99% from first quarter 2020 compared to that of first quarter 2021, and increased 8.23% from first quarter 2021 compared to that of first quarter 2022.
Table 3 and Figure 2 present the highest number of registered live births which occurred in January 2020, followed by January 2022 and February 2020. The lowest numbers of live births were recorded in the months of February 2021, March 2022 and March 2021.
Figure 3 shows the monthly average of registered live births for the first quarter of 2022 which reached 895.
Table 4 and Figure 4 show that on average, 30 live births were recorded daily for the first quarter of 2022.
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 birth, deaths and 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 vital records.
Counts on Births include babies born in the Philippines whose mother’s usual residence is in a foreign country.
Live Birth is a complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of conception, irrespective of the duration of the pregnancy, which after such separation, breathes or shows any other evidence of life, such as beating of the heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite improvement 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.
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