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   DVH to abelard   
   Re: Why are there more French boy babies   
   16 Jan 11 12:43:02   
   
   XPost: uk.politics.misc   
   From: dvh@vhvhvhvh.com   
      
   "abelard"  wrote in message   
   news:kc64j6d731m9hg9eg2ggv2jll1du7hakq0@4ax.com...   
   > On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 20:23:50 -0000, "DVH"  wrote:   
   >   
   >>Every year for the last twenty or more years, more boy babies than girl   
   >>babies have been born in France.   
   >>   
   >>That reverses a trend of more girl babies lasting from the immediate   
   >>post-war years until 1985.   
   >>   
   >>Can more boy babies since 1985 be explained by the presence in France of   
   >>more "patriarchal" family units since the eighties?   
   >>   
   >>Can more girl babies from 1947 to 1985 be explained by events between 1914   
   >>and 1945?   
   >>   
   >>Here are the proportions for the last eight years:   
   >>   
   >>                Male            Female   
   >>   
   >>2007        51.2%        48.8%   
   >>2006        51.1%        48.9%   
   >>2005        51.2%        48.8%   
   >>2004        51.1%        48.9%   
   >>2003        51.2%        48.8%   
   >>2002        51.1%        48.9%   
   >>2001        51.4%        48.6%   
   >>2000        51.2%        48.8%   
   >>   
   >>http://www.insee.fr/fr/ppp/bases-de-donnees/irweb/projpop0760/   
   d/pyramide/pyramide.htm   
   >   
   > i wonder if that's the musulmen?   
      
   I suspect it is.   
      
   But I can't work out why there should have been ~40 years of more girl   
   births.   
      
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