Vital Statistics are derived from information obtained at the time when the occurrences of vital events and their characteristics are inscribed in civil register.

Vital acts and events are the births, deaths, fetal deaths, marriages, and all events such 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 called vital records.

The total number of registered deaths in the province of Romblon for the 2^nd Quarter of the year 2023 is 486.  This is the result of the preliminary tabulation of data from the submissions of the local civil registry offices in the province.

Figure 1 shows that the municipality of Odiongan registered the most number of deaths with 136 or 28.0 percent of the total registered births for the province during the quarter. The municipality of Romblon came in second with 64 or 13.2 percent while Cajidiocan ranked third with 40 or 8.2 percent. 

On the other hand, the municipality of Banton and San Jose recorded the least number of registered deaths during the quarter with 6 or 1.9 percent.   

Table 1 shows the distribution by municipality and month of registered deaths in the province of Romblon during the third quarter of 2023. In the said quarter, the most number of deaths occurred in the month of August 2023 with 170 deaths or 35.2 percent.

Table 2, meanwhile, compares the total number of registered deaths in the third quarter of 2023, second  quarter of 2023, and third quarter of 2022. In the said table, the number of deaths in third quarter of 2023 decreased by 132 or by -21.4 percent compared to the total registered in the previous quarter. Also, it decreased by 34 deaths or by -6.5 percent compared to the total registered deaths in the same quarter during the past year. 

About two in every one hundred deaths are registered late

There were 486 deaths registered in 2023. Of this total, 11 deaths or 2.3 percent were registered after the reglementary period, hence, considered as delayed registration.