The data presented in Table 8 mainly represents a quarterly summary of the data previously presented in Tables 4 and 5: gender, marital status and institutional births. Additionally, quarterly live birth outcome data is presented. The quarter with the largest number of live birth occurrences for 2004 was the October to December quarter with 12,634, followed by the July to September, January to March and April to June quarters with 10,715, 10,115 and 8,984 respectively.
In respect of live birth outcomes, there were 41,648 singletons, 810 sets of twins and 4 triplets. This is comparable to the previous year’s totals of 42,511 singletons, 439 twins and 6 triplets.
(Table 8)
In respect of the parish of occurrence of the live births by outcome, it can be observed that the triplets occurred in Kingston and St. Catherine, two in each parish. For twins, the parishes with the highest occurrence were Kingston and Manchester with 81 and 59 respectively. Portland had the least with only one set of twins.
(Table 8a)
TABLE 8: QUARTERLY STATISTICS OF LIVE BIRTHS OCCURRING IN 2004 SHOWING GENDER, MARITAL STATUS AND LIVE BIRTH OUTCOMES
TABLE 8a: LIVE BIRTHS OCCURRING IN 2004 BY PARISH OF OCCURRENCE AND LIVE BIRTH OUTCOME