We found a matchYour institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.TitleLow female[corrected]-to-male [corrected] sex ratio of children born in India: national survey of 1.1 million households.AuthorsJha, Prabhat; Kumar, Rajesh; Vasa, Priya; Dhingra, Neeraj; Thiruchelvam, Deva; Moineddin, RahimAbstractFewer girls than boys are born in India. Various hypotheses have been proposed to explain this low sex ratio. Our aim was to ascertain the contribution of prenatal sex determination and selective abortion as measured by previous birth sex.PublicationLancet (London, England), 2006, Vol 367, Issue 9506, p211ISSN1474-547XPublication typeJournal ArticleDOI10.1016/S0140-6736(06)67930-0