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

Table 3

Effects of rural-urban migration on migrant-sending households.

Effects of rural-urban migration	Migrant-sending households location
	Machakel		Bibugn		Basso Liben		Hulet Ej Enese		Total HH
	Number of obs. (n)	%	Number of obs. (n)	%	Number of obs. (n)	%	Number of obs. (n)	%	Number of obs. (n)	%
Creates labor shortage in peak seasons	33	28.70	5	4.27	61	52.14	47	39.83	146	31.23
Increases household’s loan repayment	16	13.91	54	46.15	21	17.95	35	29.66	126	26.92
Able to purchase agricultural inputs	11	9.57	45	38.46	7	5.98	22	18.64	85	18.16
Decreases agricultural income	39	33.91	13	11.11	17	14.53	4	3.39	73	15.73
The remaining members get more farm plots	16	13.91	0	0.00	11	9.40	10	8.47	37	7.95

Source. Own survey computation (2022).