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Lesotho - how to identify migrant-sending HHs? [message #4365] Thu, 14 May 2015 11:32 Go to previous message
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I am using Lesotho DHS 2009 for a study on female labor migration. Most of my analysis relies on individual recodes, where migrants are identified as those who have not always lived in their current place of residence (v104!=95, always). However, the information needed to compare sending vs. non-sending households is only available in the household recode and here it's less clear how to identify migrants.

Based on DHS reports and other entries in this forum, I thought the DHS household roster includes both usual residents (de jure members) and visitors. The term de facto members is also used to identify which of the individuals listed in the roster, either residents or visitors, slept in the house the previous night. Therefore, "visitors" are de facto but not de jure members, whereas "migrants" would be de jure, but not de facto members. Is my understanding correct?

When working with the data, however, I realized that 23% of household heads were not de jure members (hv102_*, usual resident). According to the definition above, this would qualify them as visitors, but almost none of them had slept in the house the previous night (hv103_*) either. In what circumstances would someone be listed in the roster if they were not usual residents (de jure) and they hadn't slept there the night before (de facto)? Could it be that migrants were inaccurately recorded as not being usual residents?

Thank you!

Ioana
 
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