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The Age Distribution of Missing Women in India

Anderson, Siwan; Ray, Debraj - eSocialSciences - 2012

Relative to developed countries, there are far fewer women than men in India. Estimates suggest that more than 25 … million women are "missing". Sex selection at birth and the mistreatment of young girls are widely regarded as key … explanations. A decomposition of missing women by age across the states of India is done. The state-wise variation in the …

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Declining Child Sex Ratio: Addressing the Imperatives

Sen, Anwesha - eSocialSciences - 2011

A discussion about the declining sex ratio in India is given. The various reasons for declining sex ratio are outlined. …

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Determinants of RTIs/STIs Prevalence among Women in Haryana

Rode, Sanjay - eSocialSciences - 2007

of RTI/STI among the rural women in Haryana. Half of the rural women have no knowledge of the mode of transmission of …An increase in HIV infection has contributed to the problem of RTIs/STIs in India. This paper finds a high prevalence … understand the factors responsible for the prevalence of RTI/STI in Haryana. …

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The Socio-Economic Determinants Behind Infant Mortality and Maternal Mortality

Innovation, Indian Trust for; ITISC, Social Change - eSocialSciences - 2009

and Haryana to understand the socio-economic, cultural and demographic features accelatrating Infant Mortality rate and …

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Fertility Decline and Missing Women

Jayachandran, Seema - eSocialSciences - 2014

This paper empirically measures the relationship between desired fertility and the sex ratio. Standard survey questions on fertility preferences ask the respondent her desired number of children of each sex, but people who want larger families have systematically stronger son preference, which...

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Draft of combined Fourth and Fifth Periodic Reports of India to CEDAW

eSocialSciences; Government of India Ministry of Women … - 2011

This Report covers developments in implementation of the Convention in India from 2006 to 2011. The harmonised … of Discrimination against Women, 2006 have been followed broadly in the preparation of this Report. [Report Ministry of … Women and Child Development]. …

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Access and Utilisation of Health Care Services in Urban Low-income Settlements in Surat, India

Acharya, Akash - eSocialSciences - 2008

This paper investigates a range of aspects including socio economic status,morality, morbidity requiring inpatient as well as outpatient care, health care-seeking behavior etc.

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