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Published in final edited form as: Int Migr Rev. 2009;43(3):621–651. doi: 10.1111/j.1747-7379.2009.00779.x

TABLE 3. Multinomial Logistic Regression Output for Predicting the Competing Risks of Taking A First Trip to Three Locations in Year t + 1.

INDEPENDENT VARIABLES IN YEAR t Within Chitwan To Other Districts To Other Countries



B SE B SE B SE
Physical Capital
 Home business -0.186 0.155 -0.751** 0.301 -0.958*** 0.365
 Outside business -0.135 0.277 -0.897 0.588 -0.505 0.464
Social Capital
 Mother traveled internationally -0.088 0.105 -0.07 0.177 -0.015 0.181
 Father traveled internationally 0.104 0.071 0.058 0.121 0.099 0.124
 Neighborhood prevalence ratio for within Chitwan migrants 0.007*** 0.002 -0.001 0.003 0.00005 0.003
 Neighborhood prevalence ratio for migrants to other districts 0.009*** 0.003 0.022*** 0.005 -0.007 0.006
 Neighborhood prevalence ratio for international migrants 0.007** 0.004 -0.003 0.007 0.045*** 0.005
Human Capital
 Education 0.050*** 0.009 0.100*** 0.015 0.030* 0.016
 Salary job 0.504*** 0.116 0.369** 0.16 -0.372* 0.221
 Wage job 0.075 0.065 -0.265** 0.135 -0.305** 0.133
 Served in the military 0.26 0.195 1.707*** 0.179 1.214*** 0.199
Neighborhood Characteristics
 Electricity -0.055 0.079 -0.310** 0.146 -0.058 0.145
 Indicator of neighborhood development -0.005 0.027 -0.135 0.082 -0.432*** 0.144
Demographic Variables
 Age -0.160*** 0.017 -0.026 0.046 -0.172*** 0.04
 Age2 0.002*** 0 -0.001 0.001 0.001* 0.001
 Gender 0.553*** 0.069 -0.718*** 0.134 -1.599*** 0.148
 Marriage 0.029 0.079 -0.079 0.137 0.111 0.138
Ethnicity
 Hindu upper caste -0.282*** 0.084 0.346* 0.178 0.688*** 0.197
 Hindu lower caste -0.102 0.106 0.897*** 0.203 1.138*** 0.211
 Hill Tibeto-Burmese -0.013 0.097 0.265 0.205 0.745*** 0.215
 Newar and other -0.328** 0.135 0.211 0.246 -0.278 0.335
 Terai Tibeto-Burmese - - - - - -
Constant -1.265*** 0.261 -3.589*** 0.632 -1.194** 0.581
No. of person years 40771
*

significant at 10%;

**

significant at 5%;

***

significant at 1%