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'''Quezon Registers 114 Daily Births'''

*Source: http://mb.com.ph/articles/357832/quezon-registers-114-daily-births

*By: DANNY ESTACIO

*''April 23, 2012''

LUCENA CITY, Quezon — The Provincial Office of the National Statistics Office (NSO) reported yesterday that about 114 babies are born daily in the province.

Statistics Officer Irene Pucyutan revealed that the number is based on the 2010 birth statistics survey of the NSO-Quezon. She said this means that about five babies are born every hour in the province. The total number of live births registered during the year 2010 was 41,508, which was lower compared to the previous year’s total of 42,484, she said.

Records also show that there were more male babies born in Quezon comprising 51.7 percent or 21,479 of the total births. The rest -- 20,029 or 48.3 percent -- were females.

The birth sex ratio was 107 males for every 100 females.

NSO records also showed that seven in 10 births were born to mothers aged 20-34 years old and the number of births born to teen-aged mothers was 12.8 percent.

 

In deliveries, the traditional birth attendants or “hilots” attended to the most number of birth deliveries equivalent to 39.4 percent, physicians shared only 32.4 percent while midwives had 25.5 percent and nurses had a small share of only 1 percent.

 

Pucyutan added the Lucena City and Lopez town topped the rest of the municipalities in terms of the number of registered births. They also yielded the highest daily average of birth occurrences, 25 for Lucena City and 10 for Lopez town.

 

Candelaria town placed third with a daily average of seven while Gumaca and Sariaya, both with daily average of five.