provisional estimates from the 2001 census of India show not only an unusually high sex ratio for children under seven years of age in the country as a whole (107.8 males per 100 females), but also an increase in this sex ratio since 1991, when it was 105.8. The all-India estimates mas...
摘要: Child sex ratio : a situation report on missing girl child based on Census of India 2001 (Census of India 2001) Office of the Registrar General, India, 2004 Computer File(Optical Disc)出版时间: 2004 收藏 引用 批量引用 报错 分享 ...
This note will largely focus on the 2001 Census results and developments in the ongoing litigation in the Supreme Court of India to enforce implementation of the Prenatal Diagnostic Techniques Act 1994. The 2001 Census highlighted the drastic decline in child sex ratios in several states in North ...
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...
The sex ratio of Indias population has been on the declining course during the last one century currently indicating a massive deficit of females. Sex ratio trends vary considerably across the regions of India consistent with the degree of gender inequalities in education employment and empowerment in...
In the birth statistics since 1990, we find a four-point increase in the sex ratio at birth for mothers born in India, attributable particularly to an increase at higher birth orders, mirroring findings reported for India. This suggests that sex-selective abortion is occurring among mothers born...
In the context of targeting of state transfers based on income poverty lines, this study is concerned with the identification of households that may have b... R Saith,BH White 被引量: 0发表: 2000年 加载更多 来源学校 University of East Anglia 1997 研究点推荐 Sex ratio imbalances 引用走势...
The paper studies the impact of prenatal sex selection on the well‐being of girls by analyzingchanges in children's nutritional status and mortality during the years since the diffusion of prenatalsex determination technologies in India. We use the ratio of male to female births in the year and...
Adjusted analyses revealed that paid sex was associated with kothi identity (adjusted odds ratio (AOR) 2.62, 95% CI 1.34 to 5.10) and harassment (AOR 2.34, 95% CI 1.16 to 4.72). MSM who engaged in paid sex (versus no paid sex) had a mean of 31 partners in the past month (versus ...
India has both higher levels of illegal trafficking of girls and abnormal child sex ratios in favor of boys. This paper examines if the skewed sex ratio in India is associated with trafficking of girls. Using panel data from twenty-nine Indian states from 1980 to 2011, the study finds that...