Determinants of Rural Out-Migration in Habru District of Northeast Ethiopia

Table 1

Household characteristics of respondents ().

Household characteristics	Frequency	Percentage
Migration status of households
Migrant sending households	76	38
Nonmigrant sending households	124	62
Household migrants’ number
Households with no migrant members	124	62
Households with one migrant member	46	23
Households with two migrant members	27	13.5
Households with three migrant members	3	1.5
Age of migrants household members
Nonmigrants	124	62
15–24 years	48	24
25–34 years	23	11.5
35–64 years	5	2.5
Sex of respondents
Female	28	14
Male	172	86
Households and sex of their migrant household members
Households with no migrants	124	62
Households with female migrants	40	20
Households with male migrants	22	11
Households with both female and male migrants	14	7
Educational status
Unable to read and write	78	39
Able to read and write	122	61
Marital status
Unmarried	0	0
Married	200	100

Source: authors’ own computation from survey (2015).