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Sex Ratios and Sex Sequences of Births in India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Kanti Pakrasi  and
Ajit Halder
Kanti Pakrasi
Affiliation:
Research and Training School, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India
Ajit Halder
Affiliation:
Research and Training School, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India
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101,220 births in urban areas and 147,331 in rural areas in India, recorded by interview from a 10% sample of households in 3888 villages and 2357 urban blocks, have been analysed. The overall sex ratio was similar to that found in Europe; the only obvious effect of birth order was an apparent high masculinity of first births in both urban and rural areas (probably artifactual); the distribution of the sexes in families in both areas differed somewhat from the binomial expectation; and there was no association between the sexes of pairs of children from adjacent births, but some in the case of pairs separated by one other birth in urban areas or by two other births in rural areas.

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Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 3 , Issue 4 , October 1971 , pp. 377 - 387
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1971

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