Genus
Volume 74, Issue 1, 2018

Changes in sex ratio at birth among immigrant groups in Sweden (Article) (Open Access)

Mussino E.* , Miranda V. , Ma L.
  • a Demography Unit—Department of Sociology, SUDA—Stockholm University, Stockholm, SE-106 91, Sweden
  • b Statistics Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden
  • c Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden

Abstract

What happens when citizens from societies with strong son preference culture migrate to countries in which preference for having a child of each sex prevails? Using data from Swedish population registers, we investigate the sex ratio at birth by parity and the sex composition of previous children in Sweden. Our results showed that women with Chinese, Korean, and Indian background had a substantially elevated sex ratio at the third parity if previous children were both girls. Strikingly, this skewed ratio became less pronounced after 2000, suggesting a shift for a more neutral sex preference for children among these groups in the new century. © 2018, The Author(s).

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immigrants Sweden Sex preference for children Sex ratio at birth Sex selection of children

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85052738803&doi=10.1186%2fs41118-018-0036-8&partnerID=40&md5=2e57472d0505410f3e270a42d3101b00
DOI: 10.1186/s41118-018-0036-8
ISSN: 00166987
Cited by: 3
Original Language: English