Migration of Rural Families with Children to Cities: Exploring Moving Points and Predictors
AUTHOR : 신나리,최유미,김경화
INFORMATION : page. 85~100 / 2023 Vol.30 No.3
ABSTRACT
This study aims to investigate the time at which households with children in rural areas move to cities and the factors that can predict this migration. The first to twelfth wave data of the Panel Study on Korean Children (PSKC) were analyzed using survival analysis for this study. As a result, 263 households (99.2%) of the 265 households with children residing in a rural area moved to the city, and the period when the migration rate was high at the time when the child was one year old and six years old, just before entering elementary school. Predictors influencing the initial timing of migration to cities, parental age, father's job change, and household income level were found to be significant. On the other hand, the child's gender, older siblings, and social support did not explain the proba-bility of moving. These result shows that substantial policies to secure quality jobs along with the improvement of childcare and educational infrastructure should be established for households with children to continue to reside in a rural area and to prevent the crisis of extinction due to depopulation.