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100			_aKrishnaji, N.
245			_aTrends in sex ratio: a review in tribute to Asok Mitra
260			_c2000
300			_ap.1161-163
362			_a1 Apr
520			_aThe 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
650			_aSex ratio
773			_aEconomic and Political Weekly
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