Determination of Socio-Economic Characteristics of Non-Family-Reason Internal Migration in Nepal

This study has used the socio-economic, demographic, and geographic variables from the national household survey data. The volume of an internal migration is affected by the gaps of pull and push factors between the places of origin and destination. However, the proportion of internal migration due to the family reasons could be large, which is less affected by pull and push factors. This paper studies the non-family-reason internal migration (NFIM) and shows that the non-familyreason internal migration population has different characteristics from the other population and internal migrants. The NFIM and internal migration regression coefficients had the same sign for hill/terai geographical belts, age-group, nonpoor, farm household, and ethnicity. This paper studied the NFIM population’s characteristics using the second Nepal Living Standards Survey 2003/04 data. It is possible that there are similar characteristics of the NFIM population in other geographical areas.