Table 2.
Reasons for coming to Ireland, prior experience and years spent in Ireland compared with migration intentions
| Reasons/Intentions | Migration intentions | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intends to remain in Ireland n (%) | Intends to return home n (%) | Intends to migrate to onwards n (%) | Total n (%) | P valuea | |
| Reasons for coming to Irelandb | |||||
| For post-graduate medical qualificationsc | 86 (83 %) | 52 (68 %) | 122 (81 %) | 260/331 (79 %) | 0.0236 |
| For higher salaryc | 30 (32 %) | 25 (33 %) | 79 (52 %) | 134/324 (41 %) | 0.0018 |
| For family reasonsc | 43 (47 %) | 20 (27 %) | 48 (32 %) | 111/315 (35 %) | 0.0161 |
| For safety/securityc | 47 (51 %) | 28 (38 %) | 69 (47 %) | 144/315 (46 %)d | 0.2502 |
| Years of experience prior to arrival | |||||
| <5 | 8 (8 %) | 16 (20 %) | 15 (9 %) | 39 (11 %) | 0.0043 |
| 6–10 | 12 (12 %) | 12 (15 %) | 37 (23 %) | 61 (18 %) | |
| 11–15 | 20 (19 %) | 17 (22 %) | 28 (18 %) | 65 (19 %) | |
| 16–20 | 15 (14 %) | 4 (5 %) | 29 (18 %) | 48 (14 %) | |
| 21–25 | 21 (20 %) | 8 (10 %) | 18 (11 %) | 47 (14 %) | |
| >25 | 28 (27 %) | 22 (28 %) | 33 (21 %) | 83 (24 %) | |
| TOTAL | 104 (100 %) | 79 (100 %) | 160 (100 %) | 343 (100 %)d | |
| Years spent in Ireland | |||||
| <2 | 8 (9 %) | 12 (20 %) | 17 (13 %) | 37 (13 %) | 0.0054 |
| 3–5 | 5 (5 %) | 9 (15 %) | 29 (22 %) | 43 (15 %) | |
| 6–10 | 31 (33 %) | 16 (27 %) | 43 (32 %) | 90 (31 %) | |
| 11–15 | 22 (23 %) | 12 (20 %) | 26 (19 %) | 60 (21 %) | |
| >15 | 28 (30 %) | 10 (17 %) | 19 (14 %) | 57 (20 %) | |
| Total | 94 (100 %) | 59 (100 %) | 134 (100 %) | 287 (100 %)e | |
aχ2 test of association
bReasons for coming to Ireland are not mutually exclusive
cIndication of ‘Very important’ or ‘Important’
dMissing data for ‘reasons for coming to Ireland’ and ‘years of prior experience’ range from 0 (345 responses) to 30 (315 responses) respondents
eMissing data for years spent in Ireland = 58 – see text