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Multilingual Demographic Dictionary, second unified edition, English volume

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Latest revision as of 06:44, 5 February 2010

Sex structure  (SEX structure)


The sex structure 1 or sex distribution 1 of the population is measured by the ratio of the total number of one sex 2 to the total number of the population or, more frequently, to the total number of the other sex. By convention, the male sex is usually considered in the numerator and we speak of the masculinity 3 of the population. The masculinity proportion 4 is the proportion of males in the total population. The sex ratio 5 is the ratio of the number of males to the number of females; it is usually expressed as an index value (132-7) i.e. the number of males per 100 females.

  • 3. Occasionally, the numerator of this ratio relates to the female population, and the feminity of the population is measured.

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