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Demographic and Health Survey 2017-2018 - IPUMS Subset

Pakistan, 2017 - 2018
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
National Institute of Population Studies (NIPS) [Pakistan], and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
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Main reason for migrating to village/city of interview (H_MIGRANTWHY)

Data file: PAK2017-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
24) What was the primary reason for (NAME) to move to this village/city?

BETTER ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY 1
MARRIAGE 2
ACCOMPANY FAMILY 3
STUDY 4
TRANSFERRED ON JOB 5
ESCAPE FROM VIOLENCE/NATURAL DISASTER 6
OTHER REASONS 7
DON'T KNOW 8
Categories
Value Category
95 Other reason
10 Economic reasons
11 Better economic opportunities
12 Accumulate savings
13 Transferred
14 Schooling
15 Better infrastructure
20 Family reasons
21 Accompanied family
22 Join family
23 Marriage
24 Since childhood
25 Birth of postpartum
30 Escape danger
31 Escape drought or flood
32 Escape war or violence
33 Escape other natural disaster
97 Don't know
98 Missing
99 NIU (not in universe)
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Description

Definition
For usual household members born outside the household interview location, MIGRANTWHY reports the main reason why they moved to their current location (village or city).

Rationales are grouped into broad categories sharing a common first digit: Economic, familial, escape (from some sort of natural/local disaster), and other. More detailed rationales (e.g., escape from flood/drought versus escape from violence) are distinguished in the second digit.

concept

Concept
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