GUIMARAS – For the first semester of 2022, more female teens here settled down than males, recording 20 brides belonging to the age group below 20 years old, data from the Decentralized Vital Statistics System (DVSS), Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) – Guimaras Provincial Statistical Office showed.
The number was four times more than the number of grooms – only five – of the same age group.
The DVSS record also showed that most of the teen brides came from the municipality of Jordan, with six, comprising 30 percent of the total brides aged below 20 years old.
Jordan was followed by Sibunag municipality with five adolescents (25 percent).
Buenavista, Nueva Valencia, and San Lorenzo shared 15 percent each with three recorded brides individually.
“In the recorded teen grooms, two or 40 percent each came from the Municipality of Jordan and Sibunag, while one or 20 percent came from the Municipality of Nueva Valencia,” Provincial Statistical Officer Nelida B. Losare said.
Losare also said there were more brides than grooms among age groups 20 to 34 years old, having a total of 421 brides comprising 81.91 percent of the provincial total, while grooms had registered only 392 or 76.26 percent of the total grooms.
“Data also showed that more men got married at an older age than women, 98 grooms and 66 brides belonging to an age group of 35 to 49 years old were recorded out of 514 couples, while 12 grooms and four brides among the age group 50-59 years old,” Losare said.
Meanwhile, three grooms belonging to the age group 60-69 and three 70 years old and above tied their knots during the first semester of 2022, while one bride each for the same age group. (PSA/PN)
