Migration and child health in Moldova and Georgia

Cebotari, Victor; Siegel, Melissa; Mazzucato, Valentina

doi:10.1186/s40878-017-0068-9

Comparative Migration Studies

Table 3 Different transnational family characteristics and children’s health: Moldova

From: Migration and child health in Moldova and Georgia

	Model 7 Household type		Model 8 Duration		Model 9^a Parental migration and caregiver		Model 10 Remittances
Household type (ref. non-migrant household)
Migrant household	3.09^*	[1.28,7.47]
Returned migrant household	2.93^*	[1.01,8.48]
Female ^* migrant household	0.52^*	[0.29,0.91]
Duration of migration (ref. non-migrant household)
Short period abroad			1.86	[0.74,4.62]
Long period abroad			3.18^*	[1.05,7.42]
Parental migration and caregiver’s identity (ref. non-migrant: live with both parents)
Father migrant: mother caregiver					3.55^**	[1.64,8.71]
Mother migrant: father caregiver					2.11	[0.46,9.60]
Both parents abroad: grandmother caregiver					4.33	[0.69,9.82]
Female ^* Father migrant: mother caregiver					0.41^*	[0.20,1.63]
Remittances (ref. non-migrant household)
Migrant household: no							2.81	[1.07,5.58]
Migrant household: yes							2.15	[0.79,5.80]
Child is female	1.59^**	[1.14,2.22]	1.40^*	[1.04,1.87]	1.39^*	[1.04,1.85]	1.43^*	[1.06,1.91]
Age (in years)	1.04	[0.99,1.09]	1.04	[0.99,1.10]	1.05	[0.99,1.10]	1.04	[0.99,1.09]
Caregiver years of education	1.02	[0.97,1.08]	1.02	[0.97,1.08]	1.02	[0.97,1.08]	1.02	[0.97,1.07]
Good living conditions	1.55^**	[1.12,2.14]	1.59^**	[1.15,2.19]	1.47^*	[1.05,2.04]	1.58^**	[1.14,2.19]
Nr. of People per Nr. of Rooms	0.86	[0.70,1.07]	0.86	[0.69,1.06]	0.87	[0.69,1.09]	0.85	[0.68,1.05]
Number of children in household	1.08	[0.94,1.24]	1.07	[0.93,1.23]	1.07	[0.93,1.23]	1.07	[0.93,1.23]
Distant relationship with the caregiver	1.20	[0.54,2.67]	1.16	[0.51,2.65]	0.82	[0.31,2.16]	1.26	[0.56,2.81]
Happiness status caregiver	1.09^*	[1.01,1.16]	1.09^*	[1.02,1.16]	1.09^*	[1.02,1.17]	1.09^*	[1.01,1.16]
Chisinau (ref. Centre)	1.85^*	[1.06,3.22]	1.81^*	[1.03,3.15]	1.96^*	[1.11,3.46]	1.82^*	[1.05,3.16]
North	1.19	[0.87,1.62]	1.20	[0.88,1.64]	1.24	[0.90,1.69]	1.20	[0.88,1.64]
South	1.87^***	[1.40,2.49]	1.86^***	[1.40,2.48]	1.92^***	[1.43,2.57]	1.88^***	[1.41,2.51]
N	1394		1394		1394		1394
Wald χ²	64.53		68.78		76.92		79.92
McFadden’s pseudo-R²	0.11		0.09		0.08		0.09
Log-pseudolikelihood	−2854.24		−2039.54		−1910.48		−2852.94

Notes: Reported results are odds ratios; 95% confidence intervals in brackets
^*p < 0.05, ^** p < 0.01, ^***p < 0.001
^aModel 9 omits children in the category ‘both parents abroad: other caregiver’, as this category contained too few observations for inclusion in analysis

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