Measuring sex selective abortions in India: Evidences from Haryana

Type Conference Paper - CEPED-CICRED-INED Seminar on Female Deficit in Asia: Trends and Perspectives
Title Measuring sex selective abortions in India: Evidences from Haryana
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Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2005
City Singapore
Country/State Singapore
URL http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.506.6151&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Abstract
The declining child sex ratio (F/M) has been one of the important concerns in India’s demography in recent times. Haryana is one of the developed states situated in north India, having one of the lowest sex ratio as well as declining trend in child sex ratio in the last two decades. The present study aims to understand the magnitude of sex selective abortions and their reasons in Haryana. The data come from a community based research project in Jind district of Haryana. As a first step, in order to identify the areas of high incidence of induced abortion, secondary data from censuses on child population (0-4 and 5-9) were analysed by districts. The district maps were prepared using child sex ratios. The district that exhibited very high sex ratio namely Jind was selected. There were many villages with child sex ratio of 125(M/F) and above in Jind district. One of the concentrations of such cluster was selected. From the selected cluster of villages, five villages were selected randomly and a complete census of all the households in the selected villages was done. A total of 2590 households were covered and 2646 ever-married women in the reproductive ages were interviewed. Detailed information was collected on household characteristics, pregnancy histories, antenatal care, deliveries, abortion history, reasons for abortion and place of abortion for each pregnancy starting from marriage. The study provides estimates of sex-selective abortions based on evidences on pregnancy history of women, spontaneous and induced abortions and ultrasound status

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