Aggregate Sex Ratio Differs from the Average Sex Ratio
The aggregate sex ratio is the sex ratio in the total population, ignoring jurisdictional distinction. The average sex ratio is less meaningful.
The aggregate sex ratio is the sex ratio in the total population, ignoring jurisdictional distinction. The average sex ratio is less meaningful.
Crosswalk for geographies in World Bank World Development Indicators, Prison Studies prisoner dataset, UN Human Development Report, and UN Crime Trends Surveys.
The distribution of prisoner sex ratios across 209 jurisdictions worldwide about the year 2010 is approximately log normal.
Prisoner sex-ratio dispersion has not always decreased when in the median prisoner sex ratio has decreased.
Statistics on prisoners world-wide are among the best quality international statistics available. They deserve more scholarly and policy attention.
Compared to sex shares, sex ratios are more likely foster popular understanding and insight.
Converting a sex share to the corresponding sex ratio involves only easy algebra.