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Table 1 Descriptive statistics of children’s gender by ethnicity

From: Missing women in the United Kingdom

Ethnicity

First child: Male dummy

Second child: Male dummy

Third child: Male dummy

Third child: Male/First two children female

Third child: Male/One child male and one female

English

0.517

0.510

0.511

0.504

0.516

99,691

76,351

30,660

7549

14,258

Indian

0.489

0.475

0.530

0.488

0.559

1400

1131

598

205

272

Pakistani

0.541

0.475

0.507

0.504

0.508

614

549

432

115

199

English-Indian

0.517

0.524

0.525

0.692

0.522

503

382

158

39

67

English-Pakistani

0.533

0.460

0.482

0.571

0.455

184

139

83

21

44

Indian-Pakistani

0.474

0.594

0.478

0.667

0.333

38

32

23

3

15

All

0.517

0.510

0.512

0.505

0.516

102,430

78,584

31,957

7932

14,855

  1. Source: The means are calculated from data in the UK general household survey.