Table 5. Pearson’s correlation coefficients between each migration measure and national indicators.

	Intensity (ACMI)	Age at Peak	Effectiveness (mean MEI)	Impact (INMI)	Distance (βparameter)
Geographic
Area	0.01	0.23	-0.40**	-0.16	0.30
Population density (2000)	-0.39***	-0.10	0.78***	-0.26**	-0.28
Urbanization (2000)	0.21	0.45**	-0.50**	-0.08	-0.27
Economic
GDP per capita (2005 PPP$)	0.35	0.70***	-0.42*	0.05	-0.47*
Gini index (2000,2005)	0.15	-0.20	0.02	0.29	-0.06
Foreign direct investment % of GDP (2000)	0.01	-0.08	-0.35**	-0.26	0.14
Employment in agriculture (%) (2005)	-0.16	-0.61***	0.41	0.06	0.48**
Labour force participation (2000)	-0.14	-0.51***	0.50*	-0.05	-0.06
Social
HDI (2000 and 2005)	0.53***	0.55***	-0.64**	0.29*	-0.56**
Mobile telephone subscribers 2000	0.50***	0.66***	-0.44**	0.18	-0.38
Literacy (2000)	0.42***	0.42***	-0.74***	0.25*	-0.67***
Mean years of schooling (2005)	0.44**	0.50***	-0.24	0.27	-0.28
Homicide Rate (2005)	-0.42***	-0.03	0.15	-0.26*	-0.04
Political Rights (2010)	0.60***	0.15	-0.26	0.44***	0.05
Civil Liberties (2010)	0.64***	0.26	-0.39**	0.38***	-0.14
Demographic
Population growth rate (2000–2005)	0.18	-0.06	0.03	0.34	0.29
Life expectancy at birth (2000–2005)	0.39*	0.54***	-0.62**	0.17	-0.51***
Total Fertility Rate (200–2005)	-0.18	-0.52***	0.42*	0.10	0.45**
Median age (2000)	0.31	0.35	-0.33*	0.01	-0.59***
Mean age at first union (2000)	0.29	0.45**	-0.55**	-0.01	-029
International net migration rate (2000–2005)	0.47***	0.35	-0.26	0.40***	-0.28
Remittances as percent of % GDP (2000)	-0.55***	-0.42**	0.68***	-0.36**	-0.13

Significance levels were derived from bootstrapped confidence intervals using 1000 replicates.

* correlation significant at the 10% level,

** 5% level and

*** 1% level