Globally Declining Population of Women Folk Causing Sex Imbalance Is a Serious Concern: An Analysis of Sex Ratio around the Globe

Table 7

Stepwise multivariate regression analysis (started with all the above variables).

Model	Predictor		± SE	df	-value	-value	value
1	Sex ratio of 0–15 years of age	0.819	0.642 ± 0.025	142	640.0	25.2	0.001
After removal of sex ratio of 0–15 years of age
1	Total fertility rate	0.237	−0.741 ± 0.112	142	43.8	−6.6	0.001
After removal of total fertility rate
1	Crude birth rate	0.236	−0.091 ± 0.014	142	43.6	−6.6	0.001
After removal of crude birth rate
1	Life expectancy at birth	0.229	0.098 ± 0.015	142	41.9	6.4	0.001
After removal of life expectancy at birth
1	Adolescent fertility rate	0.197	−0.020 ± 0.003	142	34.6	−5.8	0.001
2	Adolescent fertility rate	0.224	−0.013 ± 0.005	142	20.2	−2.6	0.001
	Rate of natural increase (%)		−0.460 ± 0.208			−2.2
3	Adolescent fertility rate	0.250	−0.005 ± 0.006	142	15.4	−0.9	0.001
	Rate of natural increase (%)		−0.682 ± 0.228			−0.3
	Crude death rate (CDR)		−0.115 ± 0.052			−0.2
4	Rate of natural increase (%)	0.246	−0.846 ± 0.146	142	22.7	−0.4	0.001
	Crude death rate (CDR)		−0.144 ± 0.042			−0.2
1	Human development index	0.163	4.650 ± 0.886	142	27.5	5.2	0.001
1	Gender inequality index	0.161	−4.336 ± 0.835	142	26.9	−5.1	0.001
1	Infant mortality rate (IMR)	0.163	−0.026 ± 0.004	182	35.2	−5.9	0.001

Note: values of all the variables were for the year 2011.