Table 2

Accounting for the Female Deficit in China (000s) by Parity: 1982–2000

Parity	Sex Combination	1982	1990	2000
1st	None	−882	−1,234	87
2nd	One boy	−372	− 846	−1,041
	One girl	906	3,569	7,773
3rd	Two boys	−305	−1,066	−644
	One girl, one boy	149	152	209
	Two girls	860	2,280	2,370
4th	Three boys	−155	−159	−52
	One girl, two boys	− 45	−75	7
	Two girls, one boy	168	252	126
	Three girls	368	575	404
	“Missing” Girls	691	3,448	9,239
	Female Births	136,723	133,538	110,371
	Share Missing	0.51%	2.58%	8.37%

Source: China Census 1% sample (1982), 1% sample (1990), .10% sample (2000). Married women ages 21–40 and their matched children ages 0–18.
Notes: These calculations represent the weighted average of the distortion to the fraction of sons born following a combination by the actual number of women who are observed with another child. These results will not exactly match the female deficit reported in Appendix Table A1.