Research Article
Determinants of Rural Out-Migration in Habru District of Northeast Ethiopia
Table 2
Logistic regression analysis result of determinant factors for rural out-migration in the study area (
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| Determinant factors | Odds ratio | Standard error | | |
| Sex | 0.253 | 0.208 | −1.67 | 0.095 | Age | 2.181 | 1.603 | 1.06 | 0.289 | Family size | 1.758 | 0.309 | 3.21 | 0.001 | Relief assistance | 3.480 | 2.287 | 1.90 | 0.058 | Livestock ownership | 0.415 | 0.085 | −4.30 | 0.000 | Farm size | 0.0155 | 0.017 | −3.77 | 0.000 | Drought | 741.442 | 1.536 | 0.34 | 0.731 | Intravillage conflict | 7.003 | 6.055 | 2.25 | 0.0241 | Pest infestation | 1.106 | 0.628 | 0.18 | 0.859 | Access to information | 177.110 | 269.693 | 3.4 | 0.001 | Access to credit | 0.957 | 0.556 | −0.08 | 0.940 |
| Dependent variable: rural-out migration | Number of obs. = 200 | Prob > chi2 = 0.0000 | Pseudo = 0.6340 | LR chi2 (12) = 168.41 | Log likelihood = −48.606488 |
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and refer to significance at 5% () and 1% (), respectively. Source: authors’ own computation from survey (2015).
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