Republic of the Philippine Statistics Authority

Laguna

SPECIAL RELEASE VITAL STATISTICS REPORT: JANUARY 2020 Marriages in (Preliminary Results)

Date of Release: 19 March 2020 Reference No. 2020-002

This report presents statistics on marriages that were registered in Laguna for the month of January, year 2020. The data presented herein were obtained from the documents submitted by the Local Civil Registrars to the PSA Provincial Office and then processed thru DVSS2K system. Caution must be employed in interpreting the data since the figures were not adjusted in consideration of under registration.

MARRIAGE STATISTICS

Figure 1. Number of Registered Marriages by There were 1,324 recorded marriages for City/Municipality in Laguna: January 2020 the month of January 2020. It decreased by 77.5 percent from 5,882 marriages in Alaminos 37 January 2019. On the average, 42 Bay 40 City of Biñan 103 marriages a day occurred in January City of 79 2020. City of Calamba 232 36 Among the cities/municipalities in Laguna, 17 City of Calamba had the highest recorded 4 number of marriages with 232 couples. It Kalayaan 12 comprised 17.5 percent of the total 10 Los Baños 76 marriages. It was followed by cities of San 17 Pablo and San Pedro with 176 (13.3 6 percent) and 114 (8.6 percent) marriages, 17 respectively. On the other hand, Magdalena 12 municipalities of Famy and had Majayjay 6 30 the lowest number of marriages with 4 7 (0.3 percent) and 6 (0.5 percent) 14 marriages, respectively. 9 9 Pila 28 11 San Pablo City 176 City of San Pedro 114 Santa Cruz 52 Santa Maria 23 City of Santa Rosa 108 20 Victoria 19

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By type of ceremony, marriages solemnized under Roman Catholic showed the largest proportion with 536 or 40.5 percent of the total marriages in Laguna. Ranked second was marriages under civil ceremony with 468 or 35.3 percent followed by marriages solemnized under other religious rites with 320 or 24.2 percent. However, none were officiated under Muslim and Tribal rites.

Figure 2. Number of Registered Marriages by Type of Ceremony in Laguna: January 2020

536 468

320

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Roman Civil Rites Muslim Tribal Other Catholic Religious Rites

Filipino brides and grooms also marry Figure 3. Registered Marriages other nationalities. There were 1,307 (98.7 by Citizenship percent) marriages between Filipino Between Fil. & grooms and Filipino brides while 17 (1.3 Foreign percent) involved foreign nationals. Nationals 1.3% Among foreign nationals, the highest number of intermarriages involved Filipino brides and American grooms with 7 marriages, followed by Japanese and Korean grooms with 2 marriages each.

On the other hand, there were only 4 Between intermarriages between Filipino grooms Fil. and foreign national brides consisted of 2 Brides & Americans, Japanese and the other one is Fil. Grooms not stated. (See Table 3) 98.7%

MAGDALENA T. SERQUEÑA Provincial Statistics Office

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LIST OF TABLES

TABLE 1. Number of Registered Marriages by Place of Occurrence in Laguna: January 2020

PLACE OF MARRIAGE TOTAL LAGUNA 1,324 ALAMINOS 37 BAY 40 CITY OF BIÑAN 103 CITY OF CABUYAO 79 CITY OF CALAMBA 232 CALAUAN 36 CAVINTI 17 FAMY 4 KALAYAAN 12 LILIW 10 LOS BAÑOS 76 LUISIANA 17 LUMBAN 6 MABITAC 17 MAGDALENA 12 MAJAYJAY 6 NAGCARLAN 30 PAETE 7 PAGSANJAN 14 PAKIL 9 PANGIL 9 PILA 28 RIZAL 11 SAN PABLO CITY 176 CITY OF SAN PEDRO 114 SANTA CRUZ 52 SANTA MARIA 23 CITY OF SANTA ROSA 108 SINILOAN 20 VICTORIA 19 Source: DVSS Tabulation

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TABLE 2. Number of Registered Marriages by Type of Ceremony in Laguna: January 2020

NUMBER OF REGISTERED MARRIAGES

TYPE OF CEREMONY NUMBER OF COUPLES Roman Catholic Church 536 Civil Ceremony 468 Muslim - Tribal - Other Religious Rites 320 Not Stated - TOTAL 1,324 Source: DVSS Tabulation

TABLE 3. Nationalities of Brides and Grooms

NATIONALITY GROOM BRIDE American 7 2 Australian 1 - Filipino 1,307 1,320 Indian 1 - Japanese 2 1 Korean 2 - Norwegian 1 - Romanian 1 - Taiwanese 1 - Thai 1 - Not Stated - 1 TOTAL 1,324 1,324 Source: DVSS Tabulation

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