Do migrants adopt new political attitudes from abroad? Evidence using a multi-sited exit-poll survey during the 2013 Malian elections

Comparative Migration Studies

Table 6 Characteristics of migrants in Côte d’Ivoire

		Migrants in Côte d’Ivoire
	Non migrants	With access to media in Côte d’Ivoire^a	Without access to media in Côte d’Ivoire^b	With tertiary education	Without tertiary education	Union member	Not a union member
High level of trust in…
Malian democracy	0.21	0.45	0.41	0.40	0.43	0.25	0.44
	(0.41)	(0.50)	(0.49)	(0.51)	(0.50)	(0.45)	(0.50)
Malian politicians	0.13	0.29	0.27	0.00	0.30	0.08	0.29
(before the coup)	(0.33)	(0.46)	(0.45)	(0.00)	(0.46)	(0.29)	(0.46)
Malian politicians	0.34	0.34	0.40	0.33	0.37	0.17	0.39
(after the coup)	(0.48)	(0.48)	(0.49)	(0.49)	(0.49)	(0.39)	(0.49)
Malian Justice	0.17	0.34	0.28	0.07	0.33	0.09	0.32
	(0.38)	(0.47)	(0.45)	(0.26)	(0.47)	(0.30)	(0.47)
Malian police	0.27	0.36	0.32	0.13	0.36	0.27	0.35
	(0.45)	(0.48)	(0.47)	(0.35)	(0.48)	(0.47)	(0.48)
Malian media	0.31	0.29	0.28	0.13	0.29	0.09	0.30
	(0.46)	(0.46)	(0.45)	(0.35)	(0.46)	(0.30)	(0.46)
Malian army	0.43	0.33	0.33	0.07	0.35	0.18	0.34
	(0.50)	(0.47)	(0.47)	(0.26)	(0.48)	(0.40)	(0.47)
High interest in…
Malian politics	0.36	0.38	0.52	0.67	0.43	0.75	0.44
	(0.48)	(0.49)	(0.50)	(0.49)	(0.50)	(0.45)	(0.50)
Malian 2013 election	0.72	0.53	0.58	0.93	0.53	0.75	0.55
	(0.45)	(0.50)	(0.50)	(0.26)	(0.50)	(0.45)	(0.50)
Close to a political party	0.59	0.53	0.63	0.93	0.56	0.75	0.57
	(0.49)	(0.50)	(0.48)	(0.26)	(0.50)	(0.45)	(0.50)
Mb. of a political party	0.33	0.22	0.21	0.40	0.20	0.50	0.20
	(0.47)	(0.41)	(0.41)	(0.51)	(0.40)	(0.52)	(0.40)
Number of observations	658	111	114	15	210	12	213

Standard deviations in parentheses
^aMigrants who watch TV and/or read newspapers and/or listen to the radio or other media to get informed about Ivoirian political affairs
^bMigrants who do not “consume” any medium