Outcome of the 2016 United States presidential election and the subsequent sex ratio at birth in Canada: an ecological study.

BMJ Open
Ravi Retnakaran, Chang Ye

Abstract

The sex ratio at birth (proportion of boys to girls) generally shows slight male preponderance but may decrease in response to societal stressors. Discrete adverse events such as terrorist attacks and disasters typically lead to a temporary decline in the sex ratio 3-5 months later, followed by resolution over around 5 months thereafter. We hypothesised that the unexpected outcome of the 2016 US presidential election may have been a societal stressor for liberal-leaning populations and thereby precipitated such an effect on the sex ratio in Canada. Ecological study. Administrative data for Ontario (Canada's most populous province). All births in Ontario from April 2010 to Oct 2017 inclusive (n=1 079 758). We determined the sex ratio at birth in Ontario for each month from April 2010 to October 2017 and performed segmented regression analysis to evaluate the seasonally adjusted sex ratio for the following three time periods: before the November 2016 election; after the election to before the anticipated impact; and from anticipated impact to 5 months thereafter. In the 12 months following the election, the lowest sex ratio occurred in March 2017 (4 months post election). Compared with the preceding months, the sex ratio was lowe...Continue Reading

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