Table 6.

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

Independent Variables	Men
	Urban-Rural Move vs. No Move (N=193)			Urban-Urban Move vs. No Move (N=440)
	RRR		Std. Err.	RRR		Std. Err.
Age	0.981	*	0.008	0.977	*	0.011
Married/in union	1.176		0.229	1.031		0.206
Education	0.776	*	0.115	1.399	***	0.077
In school	0.567	+	0.281	0.707		0.348
Employed	0.336	***	0.211	0.596	*	0.245
Living children
No children (ref.)	1.000			1.000
One child	1.137		0.347	0.853		0.283
Two children	1.315		0.357	0.481	*	0.304
Three children	1.322		0.313	0.583	+	0.308
Four+ children	0.589		0.657	0.434	**	0.298
Number of prior moves	1.408	***	0.085	1.372	***	0.066
N (person-years)			11830
Independent Variables	Women
	Urban-Rural Move vs. No Move (N=199)			Urban-Urban Move vs. No Move (N=407)
	RRR		Std. Err.	RRR		Std. Err.
Age	0.975	*	0.011	0.970	**	0.011
Married/in union	1.035		0.211	0.825		0.224
Education	1.166		0.100	1.360	***	0.078
In school	0.553		0.385	0.520	+	0.374
Employed	0.840		0.178	0.523	**	0.185
Living children
No children (ref.)	1.000			1.000
One child	0.899		0.398	0.940		0.168
Two children	0.764		0.488	0.790		0.240
Three children	1.075		0.372	0.585	*	0.216
Four+ children	0.740		0.356	0.799		0.246
Number of prior moves	1.258	+	0.132	1.436	***	0.070
N (person-years)	16433

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.