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Number of Child/Adolescent Live birth cases in the Philippines

Requested from PSA by P. Salac at 07:55 PM on Jul 15, 2022.
Purpose: academic research requirement
Date of Coverage: 01/01/2015 - 12/31/2021
Tracking no: #PSA-950847267994

Salac 07:55 PM, Jul 15, 2022 

Hi! I would like to request for pregnancy cases in the age range of the youngest age to 19 years old from the earliest possible year to December 31, 2021 which includes the following:

Number of child/adolescent pregnancy cases per year, organized by region,city/province, and by age of mother

Number of child/adolescent pregnancy cases by age of child/adolescent mother and age of father per year.

Nisperos 06:02 PM, Jul 28, 2022 

July 28, 2022

Dear Patricia Milenz Salac,

Greetings!

Thank you for your request dated Jul 15, 2022 07:55:43 PM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch.

You asked for Number of Child/Adolescent Live birth cases in the Philippines.

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, our data on pregnancy can be found on the following published data as follows;

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

2017 Philippine National Demographic and Health Survey Final Report, Chapter 5. Fertility, Table 5.11 Teenage pregnancy and motherhood
https://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/PHILIPPINE%20NATIONAL%20DEMOGRAPHIC%20AND%20HEALTH%20SURVEY%202017_new.pdf

b) Vital Statistics Report on Births
https://psa.gov.ph/vital-statistics/table
https://psa.gov.ph/content/vital-statistics-report-vsr

Registered Live Births in the Philippines, 2020, Table 10. Number of Registered Live Births by Age of Mother and Place of Occurrence, Philippines: 2020

Statistical tables
https://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/attachments/crd/specialrelease/2020%20Births_Statistical%20Tables.xlsx

You may also check the attached tables generated from our Vital Statistics Reports. Kindly take note that our data on 2021 is still preliminary. 

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Thank you.

Respectfully,

Cesar Reynaldo V. Vinuya
Assistant National Statistician
Information Technology and Dissemination Service

Attachments:
 2009-2019 births, by adolescent mother & month.xlsx
 2010-2018 births by age of adolescent mother & father.xlsx

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