Subject area	Economics
More specific subject area	Environmentally-induced migration
Type of data	Excel file, figures
How data was acquired	Survey, guided interviews and focus group discussions
Data format	Raw, analyzed
Experimental factors	The selected farm household have more than twenty years’ farming experience and are indigenous or migrant farmers.
Experimental features	Farm households’ perception of climate and environmental changes, soil fertility decline, soil productivity decline, and land degradation. Soil fertility and productivity are considered to be pull factors in the host zone. Deforestation and land degradation are major push factors in the source region.
Data source location	Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
Data accessibility	Data is with this article