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Competition refresher
Buy and subscribe here Competition refresher published this article page no 5 the trends of the last four decades have been particularly worrying – from 941 in 1961 the sex ratio had fallen to an alltime low of 927 in 1991 before posting a modest increase in 2001. according to the provisional data of census of india 2011 sex ratio has been increased and now it is 940 females per 1000 males. but what has really alarmed demographers policy makers social activists and concerned citizens is the drastic fall in the child sex ratio. age specific sex ratios began to be computed in 1961. as is shown in table 3 the sex ratio for the 0 - 6 years age group known as the juvenile or child sex ratio has generally been substantially higher than the overall sex ratio for all age groups but it has been falling very sharply competition refresher magazine subscription.