Based on the data from January to December 2023, the provisional number of registered marriages in the National Capital Region (NCR) reached a total count of 51,492 or 13.1% of the total registered marriages in the country. This preliminary count is lower by 5.7% than the total registered marriages of 54,629 in 2022. The City of Taguig recorded 1,729 marriages from January to December 2023, representing 3.4% of the total marriages in NCR. On the average, a total of 144 marriage ceremonies were registered monthly which equates to an average of 5 couples a day.

Quezon City reported the highest number of registered marriages in NCR with a count of 15,830 (30.7%) while the Municipality of Pateros recorded the lowest number with a count of 207 (0.4%) marriages. Refer to Table 1 and Figure 1 below.

Registered marriages increases in 2023

Figure 2 shows the total number of registered marriages in the City of Taguig from 2021 to 2023. The data reflects an increase in marriages over these years. There was a 33.5% increase from 2021, with 1,150 marriages, to 1,535 marriages in 2022. Additionally, there was a 12.6% increase from 2022 to 2023, with 1,729 marriages.

Table 2 presents the highest and lowest number of registered marriages which occurred from 2021 to 2023 in the City of Taguig. The lowest number of marriages for the past three years was recorded in August 2021, with only 20 wedding ceremonies or a 1.7% share from the total registered marriages in 2021.
    
The highest number of couples who got married in the City of Taguig was recorded last December 2022, with a total of 265 marriages or 17.3% of the total number of registered marriages that year. Marriage counts in the city follow a seasonal pattern. The first quarter of 2023 shows an increase, peaking in February with a decrease in March. The second quarter starts with a large count in April, dips in May, and rises in June. The third quarter shows a decline, with July starting high and then dropping through August and September. Lastly, the fourth quarter experiences an upward trend, culminating in the highest marriage counts in December.

Explanatory Notes

The data on the number of marriages, and deaths presented were obtained from the vital events registered, either timely or belatedly, at the appropriate Office of the City/Municipal Civil Registrar throughout the country 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) https://psa.gov.ph/statistics/vital-statistics. The information presented includes vital events that occurred from January to December 2023 based on data files received by the PSA - Civil Registration Service (CRS) from the PSOs and has undergone initial processing as of 30 June 2024. Thus, the figures presented herein are still provisional and may differ from the final count. (1) The vital events of Filipinos abroad are not yet included in this release, but Filipinos whose usual residence is abroad and foreign nationals with vital events occurring in the country during the reference period were included in this report.

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.

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

Place of Occurrence refers to the place where the vital event took place.

Daily Average refers to the arithmetic mean of marriage occurrences per day.

Monthly Average refers to the arithmetic mean of marriage occurrences per month. 
 

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NARCISO H. DINO
(Supervising Statistical Specialist)
Officer-In-Charge
NCR Provincial Statistics Office III