Acknowledgements
I would like to thank Tracey Skelton for her very helpful comments on this piece and Nissa Finney for her advice on using mixed methods.
Notes
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=369; last accessed 31/07/08
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/CCI/nugget.asp?ID=1651&Pos=3&ColRank=1&Rank=278; last accessed 31/07/08
The number of males in the population outweighs the number of females up to around 20 years of age, when it generally begins to decrease due to emigration and mortality.