![]() Without sex selection, there should be 100 girls for every 105 boys at birth, but in five years the ratio almost evens out and among adults there will be more women than men. Drastic fall in sex ratio does not occur naturally in a span of five years, he said. The previous edition of the survey gathered information from 26,033 households, 28,820 women, and 4,794 men. The sample size and methodology have remained the same," said former public health director Dr K Kolandasamy. We are comparing the results of the fourth edition of the survey with the fifth edition. ![]() ![]() "We are comparing apples to apples in this survey. However, public health experts say the survey sounds an alarm. ![]() "In addition, the state's own health information management system shows that the sex ratio is nearly 940 in Tamil Nadu," he added. ![]()
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