Sex sequence of births
Definition
The sex sequence of births for a female is defined as the sequence of sexes of children for the live births she has had. Here, sequence indicates that we not just store how many male and female births the female had, but also the order in which they had.
Inferior pieces of information
- Parity of a female is the total number of live births the female has had.
- Sex composition of births is the description of how many male and how many female births the female has had, without a specification of the order.