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Title: | Rural Urban and Regional Variations in the Sex Structure of Ethiopia's Population |
Author: | Doilicho, Beyene |
Year: | 1993 |
Periodical: | Eastern and Southern Africa Geographical Journal |
Volume: | 4 |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | June |
Pages: | 35-49 |
Language: | English |
Notes: | biblio. refs., ills. |
Geographic terms: | Ethiopia Northeast Africa |
Subjects: | population distribution sex distribution Urbanization and Migration Miscellaneous (i.e. Demography, Refugees, Sports) migration Labor and Employment Demographics urbanization demography population urban population |
Abstract: | This paper examines the sex structure of the population of Ethiopia, with emphasis on the sex structure of the urban population, which is somewhat unique in Africa. Rural-urban and north-south differences in sex structure are determined using sex ratio classes and the rural-urban sex ratio gap. Early marriage, divorce, and the encouragement of female selective rural-urban migration have all contributed to the preponderance of females in the urban centres of Ethiopia, while the political crisis that set in with the 1974 revolution and the growing civil war have further deepened the problem of sex imbalance in the past few decades. Bibliogr., notes, sum. |