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Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD), Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in South Africa (IJR), Institute for Empirical Research in Political Economy (IREEP), Institute for Development Studies (IDS), Michigan State University (MSU), University of Cape Town (UCT, South Africa)
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Q70. Most important reason for emigrating (Q70)

Data file: afr34-2016-2018-v1

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
loc_start_pos: 1080
loc_end_pos: 1083
Width: 4
Range: -1 - 9999
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
-1 Missing
1 Find work
2 Economic hardship
3 Lower taxes at destination
4 Poverty
5 Poor infrastructure/ services
6 Better business prospects
7 Natural Disasters
8 Better democratic environment
9 Political persecution
10 Religious persecution
11 Civil war
12 Crime
13 Better schools
14 Better medical services
15 To pursue an education
16 To accompany family members who are moving for work
17 To join spouse/ family members who have already migrated
18 Travel/tourism/adventure/experience other cultures
9995 Other
9997 Not applicable
9998 Refused
9999 Don’t know
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.
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