Sex ratio is an important social indicator which has a great importance in the study of population as it is closely related to socio-economic condition of area. The present study focuses on the variations in the pattern of sex ratio among major religious groups of Haryana as the rural and urban sex ratio among different religious groups differs considerably in the year 2001. The sex ratio among religious group was relatively higher in the rural areas. This was largely attributable to male- selectivity in rural-urban migration dominated by male due to available of employment opportunities, sex selective abortions due to the easy availability of sex determination technology in the urban areas. Furthermore, the rural-urban differential in sex ratio was the highest among the Muslim and least difference in Sikh religion. Such analyses were carried out by applying descriptive statistics, Analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Paired difference of sex ratio of Different Social Groups/Communities of Haryana. All these analysis revealed that the sex ratio of major religious groups varies at both rural and urban level. The results showed that the variations are significant at 1 percent level of significance
