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Migration Household Survey 2009

Kenya, 2009
University of Nairobi
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Primary reason for migrant living outside HH (q5_6)

Data file: section5

Overview

Valid: 2236
Invalid: 9
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Width: 3
Range: 1 - 999
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
What is the primary reason why (NAME) is currently living outside your household?
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 education 582
26%
2 search for work 561
25.1%
3 job transfer/job opportunity 713
31.9%
4 civil conflict/ war 2
0.1%
5 marriage arrangement 177
7.9%
6 divorce/marriage dissolution 6
0.3%
7 death of spouse or partner 0
0%
8 family problems 27
1.2%
9 moved to join other family members 75
3.4%
10 return to original or previous home 63
2.8%
11 do not own agricultural land to work here / don’t have enoug 12
0.5%
12 poor quality of land or depleted soils 1
0%
13 health problems 4
0.2%
14 drought 0
0%
15 political factors 1
0%
16 won green card 12
0.5%
777 n\a 0
0%
888 dk 0
0%
999 missing 0
0%
Sysmiss 9
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.
var_qstn_ivuinstr
Q5.6 collects information on the PRIMARY reason why each former household member is currently living outside of the household. In this question list only ONE reason why each person is currently living outside of the household.
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