Philippine Statistics Authority

Nisperos 03:29 PM, Feb 28, 2023

February 28, 2023

Dear Kathlyn Morales,

Greetings!

Thank you for your request dated Feb 21, 2023 07:03:11 PM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch.

You asked for Teenage pregnancy.

We were able to determine that this particular information is already available online and therefore cannot be counted as a valid FOI request. 

In reference to your data request, you may check our available data as follows:

a) National Demographic and Health Survey 
https://psa.gov.ph/national-demographic-health-survey

Teenage Pregnancy Declined from 8.6 percent in 2017 to 5.4 percent in 2022
https://psa.gov.ph/content/teenage-pregnancy-declined-86-percent-2017-54-percent-2022

National Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS)
https://psa.gov.ph/content/national-demographic-and-health-survey-ndhs

2017 Philippine National Demographic and Health Survey Final Report
Table 5.11 Teenage pregnancy and motherhood
https://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/PHILIPPINE%20NATIONAL%20DEMOGRAPHIC%20AND%20HEALTH%20SURVEY%202017_new.pdf

2013 National Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS)
Table 5.12 Teenage pregnancy and motherhood
https://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/2013%20%20National%20Demographic%20and%20Health%20Survey-Philippines.pdf

2003 National Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS)
Table 4.9 Pregnancy and motherhood among young women
https://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/2003%20NDHS%20Philippines_0.pdf

b) 2018 Vital Statistics Report Vol. 2 - Birth Statistics
2018 Births_VSR Statistical Tables.xlsx
https://psa.gov.ph/content/vital-statistics-report-vsr

https://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/2018%20VSR%20Volume%202%20Birth%20Statistics.pdf
Table 11. Number of Registered Live Births by Age Group of Mother and by Place of Occurrence, Philippines: 2018
Table 12. Number of Registered Live Births by Age Group of Mother and by Usual Residence of Mother, Philippines:  2018

Adolescent Pregnancy in the Philippines: 2016-2020
https://psa.gov.ph/content/adolescent-pregnancy-philippines-2016-2020
Statistical Tables.xlsx
https://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/attachments/crd/pressrelease/Statistical%20Tables_3.xlsx

Table 5.11 Teenage pregnancy and motherhood
https://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/PHILIPPINE%20NATIONAL%20DEMOGRAPHIC%20AND%20HEALTH%20SURVEY%202017_new.pdf

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