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grantcart

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11. you are correct that I quoted the statistics incorrectly

Reply to quakerboy (Reply #9)

Sun Feb 19, 2012, 08:41 PM

Feb 2012

a couple more clicks brings the actual stats

http://www.ica.gov.sg/data/resources/docs/Media%20Releases/SDB/SDB_December%202011.pdf

go to Table 5

Interestingly it shows a pattern for preferential male birth.

However in the last months recorded the trend seems to be reversing, especially among Indian couples.

I would still make the point that any article that alleges that the bias continues into the diaspora regardless of education and class would require a very thorough statistical basis which the original article doesn't seem to have.

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