Table 3.

Odds Ratios and T-Statistics for the Adult Children Taking Care of their Parents Attitudinal Predictor and Other Control Variables from Multilevel Logistic and Multinomial Regression Models Predicting Migration of Six Months or More. Predicting migration of 6 months or more from Better for Adult Children to Care for Parents^a with gender interaction & control variables for Respondents at risk for Migration

	Analysis 1		Analysis 2
	Any Migration	Within Nepal	India	Persian Gulf	WWA
Children Taking Care of their Parents^a	1.28⁺(1.44)	0.96 (.17)	3.62^*(2.14)	1.44 (1.10)	1.09 (.21)
Children Taking Care of their Parents^a x Female	1.02 (.08)	1.50 (1.16)	0.30⁺ (1.40)	0.88 (.11)	1.09 (.10)
Female	0.46^**(3.01)	0.76 (.83)	0.87 (.16)	0.05^**(2.64)	0.12^**(2.57)
Age: 15–19	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref
20–24	1.85^***(4.83)	1.39^*(1.97)	1.50 (1.23)	5.71^***(5.02)	4.03^**(3.04)
25–29	0.91 (.48)	0.58^*(2.07)	0.72 (.61)	4.57^***(3.29)	1.68 (.88)
30–34	0.62^*(2.23)	0.36^***(3.29)	0.36 (1.59)	3.08^*(2.23)	1.28 (.40)
35–39	0.42^***(3.55)	0.21^***(4.11)	0.36 (1.54)	2.22 (1.50)	0.88 (.18)
40+	0.14^***(8.11)	0.16^***(5.54)	0.10^***(3.43)	0.17^**(2.83)	0.21^*(2.26)
Caste Status: Brahmin-Chhetri	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref
Newar	1.26 (1.33)	1.59^*(2.18)	0.98 (.04)	0.85 (.32)	0.60 (.90)
Hill Janajati	1.19 (1.37)	1.11 (.58)	2.31^**(2.65)	1.10 (.29)	0.58 (1.26)
Dalit	1.07 (.45)	0.83 (.83)	1.43(.95)	1.69 (1.69)	0.89 (.24)
Terai Janajati	0.77⁺(1.73)	0.70⁺(1.67)	0.89 (.29)	0.67 (1.19)	.81 (.45)
Respondent Ever Married	0.73^*(2.15)	0.56^**(2.92)	0.56 (1.35)	1.06 (.17)	2.24^*(2.01)
Number of Household Members	0.88^***(3.31)	0.81^***(3.97)	0.79^*(2.16)	1.07 (.88)	0.88 (1.20)
Respondent Non-Family Work Experience:
Never Worked	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref
Wage Work Only	1.09 (.77)	1.12 (.78)	1.57 (1.62)	1.38 (1.12)	0.42^*(1.99)
Any Salary Work	1.18 (1.20)	1.28 (1.23)	0.79 (.58)	1.34 (.98)	0.46^*(2.26)
Distance to Narayanghat	1.03^*(2.37)	1.01 (.41)	1.09^**(2.65)	1.09^**(2.84)	0.98 (.51)
Respondent School Attainment: None	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref
1–5 Years	1.75^*(2.41)	1.75⁺(1.78)	2.76 (1.52)	0.95 (.09)	1.69 (.61)
6–8 Years	1.66^*(2.22)	1.17 (.49)	2.20 (1.17)	1.74 (1.12)	2.96 (1.36)
9–10 Years	2.07^**(3.13)	2.07^*(2.34)	2.45 (1.30)	1.14 (.25)	2.52 (1.11)
11+ Years	2.33^***(3.63)	2.22^**(2.56)	2.11 (1.05)	1.19 (.33)	4.33⁺(1.81)
Household Resources	0.99 (.12)	1.03 (.77)	0.91 (1.32)	0.98 (.27)	0.99 (.02)
Relative HH Resources: Lower Third	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref
Middle Third	0.99 (.08)	0.85 (.94)	1.36 (.90)	1.11 (.36)	1.00 (.00)
Upper Third	0.98 (.12)	.75 (1.26)	1.69 (1.21)	0.86 (.39)	1.53 (.83)
Respondent Migration Experience
No Migration	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref
Domestic Migration Only	1.41^*(2.51)	1.76^**(3.22)	0.34 (1.40)	0.67 (1.00)	2.02^*(1.97)
Any International Migration	2.51^***(5.89)	1.23 (.72)	6.00^***(4.40)	1.99^*(2.21)	3.53^***(3.30)
Logged % of HH Members Migrating	1.04 (.95)	0.97 (.53)	1.12 (.90)	1.09 (.84)	1.38^*(2.23)
Logged % of Neighbors Migrating	1.17 (.95)	1.28 (1.05)	1.27 (.49)	0.72 (.86)	0.76 (.56)
Number of Person Periods	164699	164699	164699	164699	164699
Number of Moves	569	309	82	109	69
Fit Statistics
AIC:	7030.42	4211.12	1288.88	1569.84	1113.76
BIC:	7120.14	4300.83	1378.59	1659.55	1203.47

Adult Children Taking Care of their Parents was collected at first re-interview after baseline and this analysis uses months subsequent to that time point.

Significance:

^+.

.05

^**

.01

^***

.001 (one-tailed for predictor variables, two-tailed for controls).

Note: The reference category for both Analysis 1 and Analysis 2 is “No Migration.”