UNFPA RESEARCH STUDY ON SON PREFERENCE IN VIETNAM
A UNFPA qualitative research report to better understand the rapidly rising sex ratio at birth in Viet Nam.
More recently Viet Nam has begun to experience an unusually rapid rise in the sex ratio at birth (SRB). While in 2000 the SRB was still at normal levels at an estimated 106.2 male births per 100 female births, it increased rapidly to 110.6 according to the 2009 Viet Nam Population and Housing Census. Internationally as well as in Viet Nam, the imbalance of the sex ratio at birth is seen as a demographic manifestation of gender inequality as it corresponds to a situation in which girls and women are discriminated against even before birth.
Even though these quantitative analyses provided invaluable information on the trends and characteristics of the SRB imbalance in Viet Nam, many questions on the social and cultural factors impacting on the SRB remained unanswered. To identify the gaps in knowledge and understanding, the UNFPA commissioned an annotated bibliography of literature on the SRB in the Asian Region, with a particular focus in Viet Nam in early 2010. This study collected and analyzed all existing literature, laws and policies on the SRB in India, China, South Korea and Viet Nam and identified the gaps in current understanding. It thereby provided the basis for the design of the research study presented in this report.
http://www.unfpa.org/gender/docs/studies/vietnam.pdf
This is part a series of UNFPA Studies on Sex-Ratio Imbalance in Asia, analyzing different aspects of skewed sex balance ratios in four countries (China, India, Nepal and Viet Nam).
Find here other documents: http://www.unfpa.org/gender/case_studies.htm
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