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

Table 2

Logistic regression analysis result of determinant factors for rural out-migration in the study area ().

Determinant factors	Odds ratio	Standard error
Sex	0.253	0.208	−1.67	0.095
Age	2.181	1.603	1.06	0.289
Family size	1.758	0.309	3.21	0.001
Relief assistance	3.480	2.287	1.90	0.058
Livestock ownership	0.415	0.085	−4.30	0.000
Farm size	0.0155	0.017	−3.77	0.000
Drought	741.442	1.536	0.34	0.731
Intravillage conflict	7.003	6.055	2.25	0.0241
Pest infestation	1.106	0.628	0.18	0.859
Access to information	177.110	269.693	3.4	0.001
Access to credit	0.957	0.556	−0.08	0.940
Dependent variable: rural-out migration
Number of obs. = 200
Prob > chi2 = 0.0000
Pseudo = 0.6340
LR chi2 (12) = 168.41
Log likelihood = −48.606488

and refer to significance at 5% () and 1% (), respectively.
Source: authors’ own computation from survey (2015).