Overview
Identification
Countries
Burkina Faso, Kenya, South Africa, Title
Multi-centre Analysis of the Dynamics of Internal Migration and Human Capital in Selected INDEPTH Centres in Sub-Saharan Africa - Release 2016
Study Type
Demographic Surveillance
Series Information
The Migration, Urbanisation and Health Working Group of the INDEPTH Network provides a platform for multi-centre research on the determinants and outcomes of internal migration in low and middle-income countries. The database being described here is the first of a series of multi-centre databases in the project, Multi-centre Analysis of the Dynamics of Internal Migration and Health (MADIMAH). This first database is structured to examine determinants of in- and out-migration, particuarly the education status of the migrant. The second database in the series (forthcoming) will look at mortality as the outcome and migration exposure as co-variate.
ID Number INDEPTH.GH004.MIG.2014.v1 |
Version
Version Description
v1: Edited data and documentation
v2: Edited data for public distribution
Overview
Abstract
The abstract below from Ginsburg, C., Bocquier, P., Béguy, D., Afolabi, S., Augusto, O., Derra, K., Odhiambo, F., Otiende, M., Soura, A., Zabre, P., White, M.J., and Collinson, M.A. (2016). Human capital on the move: Education as a determinant of internal migration in selected INDEPTH surveillance populations in Africa. Demographic Research. 34(30): 845-884 Is an example of a use of these data:
BACKGROUND: Education, as a key indicator of human capital, is considered one of the major determinants of internal migration, with previous studies suggesting that human capital accumulates in urban areas at the expense of rural areas. However, there is fragmentary evidence concerning the educational correlates of internal migration in sub-Saharan Africa.
OBJECTIVES: The study questions whether more precise measures of migration in Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) populations support the hypothesis that migrants are self-selected on human capital and more educated people are more likely to leave rural areas, or enter urban areas within a geographical region.
METHODS: Using unique longitudinal data representing approximately 900 000 people living in eight sub-Saharan African HDSS sites that are members of the INDEPTH Network, the paper uses Event History Analysis techniques to examine the relationship between formal educational attainment and in- and out-migration, over the period 2009 to 2011.
RESULTS: Between 7% and 27% of these local populations are moving in- or out- of the HDSS area over this period. Education is positively associated with both in- and out-migration in the Kenyan HDSS areas, however, the education effect has no clear pattern in the HDSS sites in Burkina Faso, Mozambique and South Africa.
CONCLUSIONS: Empirical results presented in this paper confirm a strong age profile of migration consistent with human capital expectation, yet the results point to variability in the association of education and the propensity to migrate. In particular, the hypothesis of a shift of human capital from rural to urban areas is not universally valid.
Kind of Data
Event history data
Units of Analysis
Individual
Scope
Notes
Demographic events of Individuals in six HDSS populations.
Strict residency criteria: irrespective of the HDSS population definition we chose a residence criteria of 6 months required to be present in the population. Likewise, absence of 6 months was defined for out-migration.
Migration definition: migration is defined as crossing the field-site boundary and changing residency status as determined by the 6 month residency criteria described above.
Topics
| Topic | Vocabulary | URI |
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demography
| I01.240.050 | |
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age distribution
| I01.240.600 | |
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populatrion dynamics
| I01.240.600.350 | |
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emigration and immigration
| I01.240.800 | |
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internal migration
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sex distribution
| I01.240.800 | |
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Africa
| Z01.058 | |
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South Africa
| Z01.058.290.175.735 | |
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Kenya
| Z01.058.290.120.400 | |
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Burkina Faso
| Z01.058.290.190.245 | |
Keywords
Internal Migration, sub-Saharan Africa, Human Capital, Education, Health and Demographic Surveillance System, Kenya, South Africa, Burkina Faso
Coverage
Geographic Coverage
The data cover dynamic, demographic surveillance populations from six INDEPTH centres in three countries of sub-Saharan Africa, namely Burkina Faso, Kenya, and South Africa.
Universe
In each of the six participating HDSS centres all individuals in the population are included in an open cohort.
The date of right censoring is 1 January 2012. A person who in-migrated according to the study definition enters the cohort and a person who leaves the cohort through out-migration exits the cohort. If a person moves within the boundaries of the surveillance population and is shown by the HDSS to be the same person who enters one household and leaves another household remains in the cohort and the internal in and out moves are recorded as demographic events.
The datasets have differening start dates depending on the inception of the HDSS site.
Producers and Sponsors
Primary Investigator(s)
| Name | Affiliation |
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Collinson, Mark A.
| Medical Research Council/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa |
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Bocquier, Philippe
| Centre de Recherche en Démographie et Sociétés, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium |
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Ginsburg, Carren
| Medical Research Council/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa |
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Beguy, Donatien
| African Population and Health Research Centre, Nairobi, Kenya |
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Afolabi, Sulaimon
| Medical Research Council/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa |
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Derra, Karim
| Clinical Research Unit of Nanoro (CRUN), Nanoro, Burkina Faso |
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Odhiambo, Frank
| Kenya Medical Research Institute & CDC - Centre for Global Health Research, Kisumu, Kenya |
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Soura, Abdramane
| Institut Supérieur des Sciences de la Population (ISSP), Université de Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso |
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Zabré, Pascal
| Centre de Recherche en Santé de Nouna, Nouna, Burkina Faso |
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Funding
| Name | Abbreviation | Role |
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Swedish International Development Agency
| Sida | |
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National Research Foundation, South Africa
| NRF | |
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Wallonia-Brussels Federation of Belgium
| FNRS | |
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INDEPTH Secretariat
| INDEPTH | |
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South African Medical Research Council
| SAMRC | |
Other Acknowledgements
Metadata Production
Metadata Produced By
| Name | Abbreviation | Affiliation | Role |
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| Migration, Urbanisation and Health Working Group | INDEPTH MUHWG | INDEPTH Network | agency |
| iSHARE2 Technical Team | iS2TT | INDEPTH Network | Documentation of the study |
| INDEPTH Network | int.indepth | INDEPTH Network | agency |
Date of Metadata Production
2016-05
DDI Document Version
Version 1 (May 2016)
DDI Document ID
DDI.INDEPTH.GH004.MIG.2014.v1
Documentation in PDF
