Household migration in the Southern Cone: the case of Paraguay

Abstract

The phenomenon of individual migration from Paraguay to Argentina is examined. This work differentiates itself from the substantial litaerature that already exists on Latin American migration in three important ways. First it focuses particular attention on the issue of urban–urban as compaared to rural–rural or rural–urban migration. Second the data examined are derived from household interviws rather than from national censuses. The database for the study is a set of over 1200 interviews couducted with Paraguayan families from September 1983 to May 1984. Half of the sample consists of families residing in Asunción Paraguay and half of families residing in Buenos Airies. A one-equation logistic regression model is specified that discriminates between the two samples as a function of demographic and occupational variables.