Table 1.
Percentage Distribution of Household Migration and Remittances Status by Race and Place, PSLSD 1993. (N=8,809)a
| No migrants | Migrants, no remittances |
Remittances | N | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 70.2% | 6.0% | 23.8% | 8,809 |
| Blacks | ||||
| Overall | 65.0 | 5.6 | 29.4 | 6,494 |
| Rural | 55.9 | 7.5 | 36.7 | 4,173 |
| Urban | 81.4 | 2.2 | 16.3 | 2,312 |
| Coloreds | ||||
| Overall | 82.2 | 4.2 | 13.7 | 690 |
| Rural | 88.9 | 6.7 | 4.4 | 45 |
| Urban | 81.7 | 4.0 | 14.3 | 645 |
| Indians | ||||
| Overall | 83.7 | 6.6 | 9.7 | 258 |
| Rural | 100.0 | .0 | .0 | 2 |
| Urban | 83.6 | 6.6 | 9.8 | 256 |
| Whites | ||||
| Overall | 86.5 | 8.9 | 4.6 | 1,367 |
| Rural | 93.8 | 1.8 | 4.5 | 112 |
| Urban | 85.9 | 9.5 | 4.6 | 1,255 |
a
All three chi-square tests of migration status by race (overall, and separately for rural and urban households) are significant at the .001 level.