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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | TN's skewed sex ratio could have a passport twist to it -Rema Nagarajan

TN's skewed sex ratio could have a passport twist to it -Rema Nagarajan

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published Published on Jan 29, 2019   modified Modified on Jan 29, 2019
-The Times of India

Tamil Nadu’s alarmingly low sex ratio at birth of 840 in 2016 according to the civil registration system could be due to a large number of adults registering their birth in recent years in a bid to get passports made. According to National Health Mission officials in Tamil Nadu, if only the births in a particular year are considered, the state’s sex ratio at birth was a much healthier 932 in 2016.

Ever since it became mandatory to produce a birth certificate in order to get a passport made, a large number of adults seeking jobs abroad have been registering their births every year. Most of these are men. In 2016, for instance, registrations done more than a year after birth accounted for 1.42 lakh in Tamil Nadu. Of these, over a lakh were males and less than 41,000 were females.

This skew in registrations which gets counted in the total civil registration of births in a year, the officials explained, is what is depressing the sex ratio of births in the CRS. Including such registrations done after the first year in total birth registrations in a year and calling the ratio derived from it “sex ratio at birth” has led to the misleading statistic.

According to the state’s Health Management & Information System, the actual sex ratio at birth after dipping steadily from 923 in 2012-13 has been going up from 2016 onwards.

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The Times of India, 29 January, 2019, https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/tns-skewed-sex-ratio-could-have-a-passport-twist-to-it/articleshow/67732544.cms


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