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What are the issues relating to male migration and its impact on birth rate? Does it necessarily result in skewed sex ratio?
- UPSC 2018
- 20 marks
- Population Dynamics
Male out-migration is India's principal work-related stream: in Migration in India, 2020-21, employment explained about half of male migration against 6.2 per cent for women. The question's second clause turns on a distinction easily blurred — between the sex ratio of residents, which migration alters, and the sex ratio at birth, which it does not…
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- Issues raised by male out-migration
- The impact on the birth rate
- Does it necessarily skew the sex ratio? No
- Conclusion
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