Sex-ratio at birth in families with previous girls is worse than those with a boy. Our aim was to prospectively study in a large maternal and child unit sex-ratio against previous birth sex and use of traditional medicines for sex selection. Sex-ratio among mothers in families with a previo...
Prabhat Jha and colleagues report a low female-to-male sex ratio in India (759/1000) on the basis of a large national survey. They rule out other causes of this imbalance and conclude that it is likely to be due to prenatal sex determination by ultrasound followed by selective abortion of...
Understanding the sex ratio in India: A simulation approach The highly masculine sex ratio in India has increased substantially in the twentieth century, in contrast to most other countries in the world. Competing a... P Griffiths,MA Hinde - 《Demography》 被引量: 91发表: 2000年 ...
Before 1990, sex ratios at birth were consistently nearly one point lower (104) for the three major Asian groups in Britain compared with mothers born in Western countries. This is inconsistent with previous suggestions that Asian populations have a higher "natural" sex ratio at birth. In the ...
Sex ratio at birth (SRB) among live singleton newborns and among previous children, if any, of their mothers without history of any abortion, stillbirth or twins is reported here. In the absence of environmental stress or selective abortion of females, global average of SRB is about 1050 ...
The purpose of this study is explore several socio-economic factors associated with sex ratio at birth and the influencing factors in the family dynamics of major states of India. We use quantitative secondary data collected from statistical databases like India Human Development Survey, 2010 and Cen...
Skewed Sex Ratio: Gender Poverty Alleviation in India 来自 Semantic Scholar 喜欢 0 阅读量: 115 作者: M Gangte 摘要: The rise of boy child population in India for the past twenty years parallels the experience of other Asian Countries such as China and South Korea. There were 945 girls per...
Further, the association is heterogeneous by women’s empowerment, crime against women, and party rule in the state, and the association between the child sex ratio and trafficking of girls is stronger and larger in magnitude in states with greater women’s empowerment. Overall, ...
(1987) test of cointegration did find good linkage but the Johansen (1996) test of cointegration showed that the Bangladesh's 'sexport/GDP ratio to India with the indicators of financial indicators has only twocointegrating vectors but Bangladesh export to India with the financial indicators of...
The adjusted sex ratio for the third child was 719 (675–762) if the previous two children were girls. By contrast, adjusted sex ratios for second or third births if the previous children were boys were about equal (1102 and 1176, respectively). Mothers with grade 10 or higher education ...