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Discuss the factors influencing the distribution of sex ratio in India.

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  • Cultural Setting

Measured as females per 1,000 males, the 2011 range runs from Kerala 1,084 and Puducherry 1,037 — the only units above parity — down to Daman and Diu 618, Dadra and Nagar Haveli 774 and Chandigarh 818, against a national 943.

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  • Sex Ratio at Birth and Prenatal Selection
  • Differential Mortality
  • Migration as a Redistributive Factor
  • Economy, Society and Enumeration
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