Sex Differentials in Mortality: A Corollary of Son Preference?

Zeba A Asathar
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Zeba A Asathar: Pakistan Institute of Development Economics,Islamabad.

The Pakistan Development Review, 1987, vol. 26, issue 4, 555-568

Abstract: The issue of sex differentials in mortality received attention as early as 1901 when the Supenntendents of Census remarked on the unusually high sex ratios found in the Indian subcontinent, particularly in the North West Census of India 1901. More thorough investigations of the phenomenon were begun in the Sixties when detailed examinations of sex ratios in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh attributed their excess to higher female mortality (Vi:iaria (1967); Rukanuddin (1967); Bangladesh Retrospective Survey of Fertility and Mortality (BRSFM) (1977)]. A partial explanation was also found in the omission of female members of households from census counts because of culturally based reluctance to give out names of female household members to enumerators who were strangers plus understating of girls' ages as some form of 'protection' of nubile daughters from the outside world.

Date: 1987
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