VITAL STATISTICS

        Vital statistics are derived from information at the time when the occurences of vital events and their characteristics are inscribed in civil register for legal purposes.

        Vital events are the births, deaths, fetal deaths, marriages, adoption, legitimation, recognition, annulment, legal separation, and all such events that have something to do with 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 in the civil register is known as vital or civil registration and the resulting  documents are called vital records.

                                 Recorded number of Births, Deaths and Marriages from the

                                                       Province of Sorsogon in 2010

                                                                (DVSS Report)

  MUNICIPALITY BIRTH DEATH MARRIAGE
1 BARCELONA 294 97 99
2 BULAN 2,030 518 458
3 BULUSAN 458 100 94
4 CASIGURAN 1,186 167 170
5 CASTILLA 2,108 260 266
6 DONSOL 1,760 218 233
7 GUBAT 1,616 338 211
8 IROSIN 2,469 383 306
9 JUBAN 882 115 142
10 MAGALLANES 1,089 190 128
11 MATNOG 1,508 201 64
12 PILAR 2,366 283 337
13 PRIETO DIAZ 447 87 83
14 STA. MAGDALENA 431 178 25
15 SORSOGON CITY 6,452 1254 589
         
 

TOTAL

25,096

4,389

3,205

 

The Structure of Vital Statistics System

            The production of vital statistics comprised of a system of operations in which the registration of vital events is an important component. The system begins with the registration of vital events followed by the processing and controlling of vital records and ends with the compilation and analysis of vital statistics.

            Under Commomwealth Act (CA) 591, the Bureau of Census (now the National Statistics Office) is mandated to generate general purpose statistics and to carry out and administer Act 3753.

            Under the same law, the head of the Bureau of Census is also the Civil Registrar General (CRG) who directs and supervises the local civil registration activities in the country.  The CRG in this regard is empowered to prepare and issue implementing rules and regulations on civil registration and to prescribe uniform and standard registration forms.

         For the registration of vital events, the Local Civil Registry Offices (LCROs), which are the registration units in the country and headed by the City/Municipal Civil Registrars (C/MCRs), are under the Local Government Units (LGUs). The hospitals, clinics, rural health units and similar institutions including barangay secretaries, practicing physicians, midwives, nurses, traditional midwives, solemnizing officers from various religious sects and denomination are required to assist in the reporting of vital events for  registration at the LCROs.  The concernec parents, next of kin, contracting parties, a witness of the person who has full knowledge of occurence of the event are also required to report the event, in default of the first mentioned set of persons.

            The processing and controlling of vital documents are done at the LCROs and at the NSO Provincial and Central Offices.

        The compilation and analysis of vital statistics is taken of by the NSO Central Office under the Vital Statistics Division (VSD) of the Civil Registration Department.

            Handling of documents through automated processing of data entry, data cleaning, file updating, and generation of preliminary tables at the LCRO level are done through the use of Civil Registry Information System (CRIS). However, only LCROs with computers are able to avail of the CRIS. At NSO level, the automation is made possible by the Decentralized Vital Statistics System (DVSS).