Table 5.

Effects of sociodemographic characteristics on the competing risks of inter-regional migration of rural-origin men and women (age 15+), by type of move, coastal Central Region, Ghana, 2002. Discrete time multinomial logit models.

Independent Variables	Men
	Rural-Rural Move vs. No Move (N=59)			Rural-Urban Move vs. No Move (N=134)
	RRR		Std. Err.	RRR		Std. Err.
Age	0.977		0.028	0.970		0.024
Married/in union	5.037	**	0.567	1.433		0.310
Education	1.213		0.188	1.196		0.108
In school	0.413		0.679	0.619		0.332
Employed	0.097	***	0.328	0.378	**	0.261
Living children
No children (ref.)	1.000			1.000
One child	0.090	*	1.069	0.472	+	0.419
Two children	0.084	+	1.310	0.343	+	0.607
Three children	0.092	+	1.321	0.180	*	0.631
Four+ children	0.866		0.784	0.137	**	0.526
Number of prior moves	1.396	*	0.124	1.534	**	0.112
N (person-years)			10084
Independent Variables	Women
	Rural-Rural Move vs. No Move (N=95)			Rural-Urban Move vs. No Move (N=112)
	RRR		Std. Err.	RRR		Std. Err.
Age	0.965	+	0.019	0.972		0.017
Married/in union	1.220		0.336	1.406		0.446
Education	1.397	+	0.171	1.573	**	0.141
In school	2.173		0.605	1.016		0.245
Employed	1.790		0.471	0.507	**	0.241
Living children
No children (ref.)	1.000			1.000
One child	0.964		0.447	0.607		0.519
Two children	0.353	+	0.521	0.224	*	0.654
Three children	0.559		0.674	0.987		0.346
Four+ children	0.759		0.473	0.389		0.571
Number of prior moves	1.832	***	0.059	1.277	+	0.138
N (person-years)			15562

Source: As for Table 1.

Notes: RRR = Relative Risk Ratio. (ref.) = reference category.

⁺Significant at 0.10 level;

^*significant at 0.05 level;

^**significant at 0.01 level;

^***significant at 0.001 level.