Systematic assessment of the sex ratio at birth for all countries and estimation of national imbalances and regional reference levels
Image credit: © 2019 Chao et al.Abstract
We identify 12 countries with strong statistical evidence of SRB imbalance during 1970–2017, resulting in 45.0 (95% uncertainty interval [36.4; 54.8]) million missing female births globally. The majority of those missing female births are in China, with 23.1 [16.5; 30.7] million, and in India, with 20.7 [15.5; 26.6] million.
Please cite the linked dataset/web appendix as:
Chao, Fengqing, Patrick Gerland, Alex R. Cook, and Leontine Alkema. 2019. “Web Appendix Systematic Assessment of the Sex Ratio at Birth for All Countries and Estimation of National Imbalances and Regional Reference Levels”. figshare. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.12442373.
The following data files are available alongside the article online:
- Dataset S1: SRB database.
- Dataset S2: national SRB annual estimates and 95% uncertainty intervals, 1950–2017.
- Dataset S3: global and regional SRB annual estimates and 95% uncertainty intervals, 1950–2017.
- Dataset S4: national Annual number of Missing Female Births (AMFB) estimates and 95% uncertainty intervals for the 12 countries with strong statistical evidence of SRB inflation, 1970–2017.
Fengqing Chao
Assistant Professor of Computational Social Science
My research interests include statistical demography, global health, Bayesian modeling, and time series analysis.