Published in Bulletin of the World Health Organization
The sex of surviving children is an important determinant of reproductive behaviour in South Asia in general and Pakistan in particular. This cohort study evaluates the role of the sex of children on reproductive intentions and subsequent behaviour of women in urban slums of Karachi, Pakistan. The analysis is based on two rounds of surveys conducte...
Published in Journal of biosocial science
This article reviewed studies on the abnormal sex ratio at birth in China. The abnormality in the sex ratio at birth is a complicated result of China's social, economic and political context. It was a nationwide phenomenon in the 1980s and became more visible at present. The possible causes of the abnormal sex ratio at birth included not only the r...
Published in Studies in family planning
This study examines the indicators of son preference in North Korea. Basing from the 1993 population census and 1998 surveys of child nutrition conducted in the wake of the recent famine, simple indicators of son preference were constructed. These include sex ratio at birth, sex ratios of infant and child mortality, and sex ratios of child malnutri...
Published in China population today
This report presents findings from a family planning (FP) survey of the population in 2 counties in North Anhui province and 2 counties in South Jiangsu province, China. FP views differed between the older and younger generation. About 66% viewed FP as positive. One women noted the increase in women's status. Young women and men preferred the husba...
Published in China population today
In China, the rapidly rising sex ratio at birth has caused a great deal of concern and is generally attributed to persistence of a traditional preference for sons. The abnormal sex ratio has been influenced by sex selective abortion and by the misreporting and underreporting of births. While abortion is the primary influence, some families fail to ...
Published in Journal of biosocial science
This study explored the attitudes of rural and urban men toward family planning (FP) in Tanzania. Data were obtained from focus groups conducted among a sample of men aged 16-50 years living in both urban (Mabatini, Ruanda, and Sisimba) and rural (Iwindi, Mapogoro, and Tembela) districts of Mbeya region in the southern highlands in 1994. The total ...
Published in China population research newsletter
This news brief focuses on the sex ratio at birth (SRB) in China, its causes, and remedial efforts. A SRB has been evident since the 1980s. The SRB increased from 108.48 male/100 female births to 116.30 male/100 female births during 1981-94. A normal SRB in China during 1940-94 would have been 107 male/100 female births. The SRB rose every year aft...
Published in People & the planet
A deep-seated preference exists in many cultures for bearing sons rather than daughters. This preference for sons results in the abuse and neglect of girl children, which often leads to their death and country-level sex ratios skewed in the favor of boys and men. Many women, with the assistance and cooperation of their physicians, use ultrasound, a...
Published in Human reproduction (Oxford, England)
The ability of the human serum albumin (HSA) method for separation of X- and Y-bearing human spermatozoa to enrich sperm samples for the chosen sex chromosome was investigated in 112 couples inseminated at the Gender Choice Center in Hong Kong. Sperm recovery was limited, as specified by Ericsson, to less than 5% of the initial number. Aliquots of ...
Published in Journal of population economics
"When capital and labor markets are imperfect, choice sets narrow, and parents must choose how to ration available funds and time between their children. One consequence is that children become rivals for household resources. In economies with pro-male bias, such rivalries can yield gains to having relatively more sisters than brothers. Using a ric...
