Why do Europeans Migrate to Berlin? SocialStructural Differences ...

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TABLE 2A
DESCRIPTION OF VARIABLES USED IN THE REGRESSION
British
n (%)
French
n (%)
Italian
n (%)
Polish
n (%)
Total
n (%)
Migration age 21–29 years 159 205 124 118 606
(59%) (68%) (59%) (46%) (58%)
30 years and older 111 97 86 140 434
(41%) (32%) (41%) (54%) (42%)
Total 270 302 210 258 1040
(100%) (100%) (100%) (100%) (100%)
Gender men 163 132 108 74 477
(60%) (44%) (51%) (29%) (46%)
women 107 170 102 184 563
(40%) (56%) (49%) (71%) (54%)
Education no vocational training 53 51 61 46 211
(20%) (17%) (29%) (18%) (20%)
occupational degree 54 60 46 121 281
secondary level (20%) (20%) (22%) (47%) (27%)
university ⁄ college 163 191 103 91 548
degree
(60%) (63%) (49%) (35%) (53%)
Time of migration after 1994 134 174 117 104 529
(50%) (58%) (56%) (40%) (51%)
before 1995 136 128 93 154 511
(50%) (42%) (44%) (60%) (49%)
Network integration predominantly in 69 44 23 43 179
German network (26%) (15%) (11%) (17%) (17%)
predominantly in 26 11 21 73 131
national ⁄ ethnic
network
(10%) (4%) (10%) (28%) (13%)
predominantly in 175 247 166 142 730
multi-ethnic network (65%) (82%) 79%) (55%) (70%)
Social
father and ⁄ or mother 155 192 86 89 522
origin
member EGP service
class
(57%) (64%) (41%) (34%) (50%)
115 110 124 169 518
(43%) (36%) (59%) (66%) (50%)
Source: BSTME 2002, n = 1040, our own calculation.
Ó 2011 The Author
International Migration Ó 2011 IOM