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Journal of Population Sciences

Table 1 Sociodemographic characteristics of stayers and migrants

From: Ethnic fertility behavior and internal migration in Nigeria: revisiting the migrant fertility hypotheses

Variable

All Ethnic Groups

Hausa-Fulani

Igbo

Yoruba

Stayers

Migrants

Stayers

Migrants

Stayers

Migrants

Stayers

Migrants

%

%

%

%

%

%

%

%

Age

 15–19

1.3

0.5

1.7

1.2

0.5

–

0.4

–

 20–24

6.0

4.1

7.3

3.9

4.0

4.3

3.6

4.3

 25–29

14.7

11.9

16.5

11.3

11.4

12.9

12.1

8.5

 30–34

17.6

21.8

17.9

19.2

16.1

24.0

18.1

21.3

 35–39

20.1

24.9

19.9

27.2

18.7

22.6

22.3

26.6

 40–44

18.4

20.4

16.2

24.9

22.8

17.8

21.3

14.9

 45–49

22.0

16.5

20.6

12.3

26.5

18.3

22.2

24.5

Religion

 Catholic

8.0

23.2

–

9.4

40.5

37.6

1.4

5.3

 Other Christian

22.2

39.9

0.2

12.7

55.6

60.2

62.2

46.8

 Islam

68.6

37.0

99.3

77.9

–

2.2

35.8

47.9

 Traditionalist

0.8

–

0.1

–

3.5

–

0.5

–

 Others

0.4

–

0.5

–

0.4

–

0.1

–

Highest education

 None

57.3

31.8

85.2

72.5

14.1

4.0

7.4

7.4

 Primary

19.2

17.1

9.7

9.9

39.0

22.8

30.7

17.0

 Secondary

19.1

35.2

4.3

13.8

38.3

47.8

49.2

58.5

 Higher

4.4

15.9

0.7

3.9

8.6

25.4

12.7

17.0

 Wealth Index

        

 Poor

51.7

25.9

73.7

60.5

24.9

3.4

4.9

–

 Middle

17.1

5.8

13.9

5.5

29.7

5.7

14.9

7.4

 Rich

31.2

68.3

12.4

34.0

45.4

90.9

80.2

92.6

Place of residence

 Urban

38.4

67.3

20.2

36.9

64.5

86.4

73.2

93.6

 Rural

61.6

32.7

79.8

63.1

35.5

13.6

26.8

6.4

Children ever born

 1–4

29.9

47.1

23.2

28.9

31.3

59.3

51.2

59.6

 5–8

46.6

41.4

44.9

46.2

53.1

37.9

45.5

40.4

 9+

23.5

11.4

31.9

24.8

15.6

2.8

3.3

–

Number of observations

57,250

1,939

35,762

778

10,970

973

10,518

188