The Effects of Rural-Urban Migration on Rural Communities of Southeastern Nigeria

Table 3

Regression analysis results of effects of rural-urban migration.

Migration impact variables	Regression coefficients	Significance level
Debt repayment	0.080	0.03*
Buying of food	0.001	0.02*
House building/maintenance	0.043	0.12
Savings	0.013	0.14
Education of children	0.054	0.02*
Investments	0.044	0.12
Funerals	−0.067	0.16
Purchase of household goods	0.029	0.03*
Education project	0.044	0.00*
Electrification project	0.124	0.02*
Water supply project	0.097	0.04*
Road project	0.007	0.13
Agricultural project	−0.091	0.02*
Church project	0.046	0.35
Other projects	0.052	0.23

∗Significant at 0.05 level of significance.