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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Popul Dev Rev. 2016 Nov 17;42(4):693–710. doi: 10.1111/padr.12002

Table 4. Sex ratios at birth in five years preceding the survey.

1990 2007 2012

n SRB n SRB n SRB
Overall 6,426 101 9,112 110* 10,739 104
Region
 Urban 3,373 100 3,116 115** 4,440 105
 Rural 3,053 104 5,996 108 6,299 104
Birth order
 1 1,126 115 1,880 108 2,423 107
 2 1,021 106 1,673 110 2,116 107
 3 944 99 1,397 125** 1,717 100
 4 817 94 1,165 113 1,360 103
 5+ 2,518 97 2,997 105 3,123 103

Assuming independence p(boy)=0.5145.

*

p<0.1;

**

p<0.05 → 106 significantly different from estimated SRB.