| Title |
Missing Girls in India: Infanticide, Feticide and Made-to-Order Pregnancies? Insights from Hospital-Based Sex-Ratio-at-Birth over the Last Century
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, May 2008
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0002224 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Mohit Sahni, Neeraj Verma, D. Narula, Raji Mathew Varghese, V. Sreenivas, Jacob M. Puliyel |
| Abstract |
There are 44 million missing women in India. Gender bias; neglect of girls, infanticides and feticides are responsible. The sex ratio at birth can be used to examine the influence of antenatal sex selection on the sex ratio. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| India | 1 | 25% |
| United States | 1 | 25% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 25% |
| Unknown | 1 | 25% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 4 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Iran, Islamic Republic of | 1 | 1% |
| India | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 87 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 22 | 25% |
| Researcher | 14 | 16% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 12 | 13% |
| Student > Bachelor | 9 | 10% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 5 | 6% |
| Other | 18 | 20% |
| Unknown | 9 | 10% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 21 | 24% |
| Social Sciences | 15 | 17% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 11 | 12% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 7 | 8% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 5 | 6% |
| Other | 19 | 21% |
| Unknown | 11 | 12% |