Research Article
Globally Declining Population of Women Folk Causing Sex Imbalance Is a Serious Concern: An Analysis of Sex Ratio around the Globe
Table 6
Regression analysis between sex ratio and other demographic variables among 183 countries of the world.
| Bivariate linear regression analysis | Dependent variable | Independent variable | | ± SE | df | -value | -value | value |
| Sex ratio at birth | Sex ratio of 0–15 years of age | 0.718 | 0.596 ± 0.028 | 182 | 459.9 | 21.4 | 0.001 | Total fertility rate | 0.244 | −0.723 ± 0.097 | 174 | 55.8 | −7.4 | 0.001 | Crude birth rate (CBR) | 0.231 | −0.088 ± 0.012 | 182 | 54.4 | −7.3 | 0.001 | Life expectancy at birth | 0.222 | 0.096 ± 0.013 | 182 | 51.5 | 7.1 | 0.001 | Adolescent fertility rate | 0.188 | −0.019 ± 0.003 | 182 | 41.7 | −6.4 | 0.001 | Rate of natural increase (%) | 0.189 | −0.846 ± 0.130 | 182 | 42.1 | −6.4 | 0.001 | Human development index | 0.177 | 4.812 ± 0.772 | 182 | 38.8 | 6.2 | 0.001 | Infant mortality rate (IMR) | 0.163 | −0.026 ± 0.004 | 182 | 35.2 | −5.9 | 0.001 | Gender inequality index | 0.161 | −4.336 ± 0.367 | 142 | 26.9 | −5.1 | 0.001 | Crude death rate (CDR) | 0.053 |
−0.130 ± 0.041 | 182 | 10.1 | −3.1 | 0.002 | Sex ratio of 15–64 years of age | 0.002 | 0.004 ± 0.008 | 182 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.560 | Sex ratio of population 65+ | 0 | −0.001 ± 0.009 | 182 | 0.01 | −0.13 | 0.894 | Sex ratio of total population | 0 | 0.002 ± 0.011 | 182 | 0.04 | 0.2 | 0.837 | Net migration rate (per 1000) | 0 | −0.006 ± 0.030 | 182 | 0.03 | −0.1 | 0.852 |
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