An Analysis of the Causes of Internal Migration of the Census of 2006 and 2012

Document Type : Research Article

Authors

1 Assistant professor of demography, Payame Noor University

2 Associate professor, Tehran University

3 PhD candidate of demography, Payame Noor University

Abstract

Internal migration is one of the most important issues currently on the Iranian population that is done for several reasons. In this study, a secondary analysis of data on population and housing censuses in 2006 and 2012, the major causes of internal migration in Iran, along with its explanatory factors have been identified. The main cause of migration is to obey the family (a general and vague reason), and the next reasons are employment, education and graduation, access to more affordable housing, and the end of military service, which can classified in two general categories of subordinating and economic migration. Immigrants in urban and rural areas, male and female immigrants, immigrants of different age, have enumerated different reasons for immigration. Multivariate analysis showed that immigrants’ gender and age (as demographic variables) explain the very strong possibility of consequential and economic migration, and then the education, migration flows, migration type and level of development of destination is the goal. The two types of migrations have different outcomes for the source and the destination. By studying its causes, one can plan for internal migrations in Iran.

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