How does the Census of India express the sex ratio?

Males per 1,000 femalesCorrect answerYour answerFemales per 1,000 malesCorrect answerYour answerFemales as a percentage of the total populationCorrect answerYour answerFemale births per 1,000 births in a yearCorrect answerYour answer

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The Census of India defines the sex ratio as the number of females per 1,000 males.
The figure in the final Primary Census Abstract for 2011 was 943.
Several other countries use the opposite convention, which is why the definition has to be stated rather than assumed.

Worth noting

The provisional release of the same census put it at 940. Which of the two sets a number comes from is worth saying out loud, because both are Census 2011.

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How does the Census of India express the sex ratio?

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