Rural-Urban Labor Migration, Remittances, and Its Effect on Migrant-Sending Farm Households: Northwest Ethiopia

Table 2

Utilization of remittance.

Utilized remittance	Migrant-sending households location
	Machakel		Bibugn		Basso Liben		Hulet Ej Enese		Total HHs
	Number of obs. (n)	%	Number of obs. (n)	%	Number of obs. (n)	%	Number of obs. (n)	%	Number of obs. (n)	%
Recipient households	18	22.50	23	28.75	17	21.25	22	27.50	80	17.13
To buy agricultural inputs	43	37.39	56	47.86	46	39.31	37	31.36	186	39.82
For holidays and funerals	7	6.08	9	7.69	11	9.4	13	11.02	40	8.56
Improving or building housing	13	11.30	4	3.41	7	5.98	11	9.32	35	7.45
Repayments and payments	22	19.13	44	31.63	33	28.21	27	23.08	119	25.48
For consumption	47	40.87	54	46.15	34	29.05	57	48.01	192	41.11

Source. Own survey computation (2022).