01034pab a2200157 454500 180718b2000 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Krishnaji, N. Trends in sex ratio: a review in tribute to Asok Mitra 2000 p.1161-163 1 Apr The 1991 census counted 927 females to every 1,000 males in the Indian population. That was an all-time low level in the recorded female-to-male ratio. It laid to rest the sanguine prospect generated by the previous census, which showed an improvement in the ratio: to 934 in 1981 from 930 in 1971. Indeed, there has been a secular decline in the sex ratio from the beginning of this century. Some probing into what lies behind the long-term trend and its re-establishment in 1991 suggests - as the studies reviewed here do - that a further decline in the ratio is quite probable when the first count is made in the next millennium. - Reproduced Sex ratio Economic and Political Weekly 44466 44466 44466 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 35, Issue no: 14 AR44876 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR