Causes of migration pattern among different gradients of Tiruchirapalli District

Abstract

Migration is the process in which, a member of household moves for work or employment and retains contact with the household at origin. To understand the causes of migration and effectively manage it, the effects of the push and pull elements must be investigated. With this background, the study has been carried out to determine the factors of migration in the different gradients of the study area. A multistage stratified random sampling technique was adopted in this study. The factor analysis has been used in the study andthe results revealed that the KMO and Bartlett’s test was significant (0.611) and the analysis extracted seven factors. The push factors were more responsible for the migration than the pull factors. Among the various push and pull factors, lower wages at origin and large family size were the highly influential factors for the migration.