Analyzing the present and prospective sex and age structures of china's population, the article indicates that there still exist in the china's population the war ravage and the increasing sexual discrimination caused by the war and poverty. And the increasingly imbalanced birth sex ratio since the 1980s has deteriorated the population sex structure while there is evidence of improvement in terms of the population age structure.
Impact of Fertility Policies on Sex Ratios at Birth and Sex Ratios of Infant Mortality: An Investigation at Prefecture and City Level Using Data from the 2000 Census of China
Thirdly, the province within the normal range of sex ratio at birth was fewer and fewer, and there are seven provinces whose sex ratios at birth are beyond 130 belonging to the high range. The analysis have also reflected, while generally investigating in 2000, that the provinces' sex ratios at birth on the high side were distributed in east and middle part mainly, and mostly provinces of large population.
The traditional thought of regarding man as superior to woman is an inherent origin with out-of-balance sex ratio of birth. And woman's lower status in family is its external origin. That women's quality is lower is its external manifestation.
Data from three Ghana Demographic and Health Surveys were used to examine the relationship between family structure and offspring sex ratio at birth, something that previous studies have not been able to do.
The paper shows that, when the cost of gender detection test falls, the sex ratio at birth rises due to more selective abortions, but fertility can rise or fall with rising sex ratio.
A significant difference in the birth sex ratio was observed between the first and second half of the lambing season, among like-sex pairs of twin lambs.
The relationship between average monthly air temperature and sex ratios at birth (SRB) was analyzed for children born in Germany during the period 1946-1995.
We show that the range of interpopulation variation in the sex ratio of pouch young spans and exceeds the range of sex ratios at birth hitherto recorded from eutherians (Clutton-Brock and Albon 1983).