An analysis of data from Censuses 2001 and 2011 shows that despite the increase in overall population sex ratio in this period, the 0'6 sex ratio and 0'1 sex ratio have continued to decline. This suggests that there is no let-up in daughter defi cit. However, one positive factor is that the north-western states which have had a long history of high levels of daughter defi cit have shown an increase in the 0'1 sex ratio. The reasons for this need to be determined. Another positive aspect is that daughter defi cit seems to be lower amongst the younger cohort of currently married women; it will be interesting to see whether this persists as the cohort ages.

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Rajan, S. I., Srinivasan, S., & Bedi, A. S. (2015). Coming Back to Normal?: Census 2011 and Sex Ratios in India. Economic and Political Weekly: a journal of current economic and political affairs, 50(52), 33–36. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1765/86765