Table 2.

Unstandardized coefficients showing the model building process for random intercept models predicting financial capital for migrants in rural areas of Madagascar

	Model 1		Model 2		Model 3		Model 4
	b	z	b	z	b	z	b	z
Intercept	2.579***	56.21	2.530***	55.66	2.502***	68.55	2.366***	35.22
Migrant			0.140***	6.43	0.110***	5.15	0.110***	5.08
Length of residence			0.030	1.85	0.027	1.67	0.029	1.82
Age					−0.002*	−2.56	−0.002**	−2.65
Male					0.088***	6.56	0.089***	6.58
Married					0.077***	4.91	0.077***	4.85
Religious					0.367***	21.01	0.364***	20.71
Professional/Supervisor1					0.600***	12.71	0.597***	12.56
Service worker1					0.196***	5.46	0.207***	5.73
Skilled manual worker1					−0.285***	−11.76	−0.283***	−11.64
Unskilled worker1					−0.119*	−2.25	−0.111*	−2.09
Household size					0.028***	9.88	0.028***	9.76
No. children (<5years)					−0.155***	−21.12	−0.156***	−21.03
Development index					1.578***	36.23	1.584***	36.10
NDVI (August 2008)							0.297*	2.49
Variance components
Between clusters	0.918***	14.61	0.892***	14.72	0.145***	13.33	0.143***	13.22
Within clusters	0.780***	96.41	0.775***	95.79	0.710***	95.97	0.711***	95.26
ICC2	0.54		0.54		0.17		0.17
BIC3	51,062		50,519		48,242		47,544
N	19,033		18,872		18,867		18,587

¹Reference category for occupation: Not working;

²ICC=Intra-class Correlation Coefficient;

³Bayesian Information Criteria (lower numbers indicate better model fit);

^*p≤.05;

^**p≤.01;

^***p≤.001

Source: Demographic and Health Survey for Madagascar 2008/2009