“Barcelona or die”: understanding illegal migration from Senegal

Mbaye, Linguère Mously

doi:10.1186/s40176-014-0021-8

Table 2 Summary statistics

From: “Barcelona or die”: understanding illegal migration from Senegal

Variables	Legal migration		Illegal migration		Total
	(N=222)		(N=145)		(N=367)
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Characteristics
Male	0.88	0.33	0.88	0.32	0.88	0.33
Age	26.95	08.01	24.45	5.36	25.96	7.18
Married	0.32	0.47	0.17	0.37	0.26	0.44
Child is male	0.88	0.33	0.78	0.42	0.84	0.37
Child is female	0.89	0.31	0.78	0.42	0.85	0.36
Adult is male	0.79	0.41	0.70	0.46	0.75	0.43
Adult is female	0.84	0.37	0.84	0.37	0.84	0.37
Education level
Low education level	0.33	0.47	0.55	0.50	0.42	0.49
Secondary level	0.27	0.45	0.26	0.44	0.27	0.44
University level	0.24	0.43	0.05	0.22	0.16	0.37
Koranic school	0.16	0.37	0.14	0.35	0.15	0.36
Home owner	0.57	0.50	0.54	0.50	0.56	0.50
Mouride	0.39	0.49	0.54	0.50	0.45	0.50
Ethnic dummies
Wolof	0.36	0.48	0.30	0.46	0.34	0.47
Lebou	0.16	0.37	0.23	0.42	0.19	0.39
Hal Pular	0.14	0.34	0.08	0.27	0.11	0.32
Serere	0.22	0.41	0.24	0.43	0.23	0.42
Diola	0.05	0.23	0.06	0.23	0.05	0.23
Manjack	0.01	0.09	0.01	0.12	0.01	0.10
Bambara, Mandingue, Sub-region	0.06	0.24	0.08	0.28	0.07	0.26
Region dummies
Campus	0.17	0.38	0.02	0.14	0.11	0.32
Fass, Medina and Geule tapée	0.11	0.32	0.10	0.31	0.11	0.31
Guédiawaye	0.34	0.48	0.39	0.49	0.36	0.48
Sandaga	0.10	0.30	0.16	0.37	0.12	0.33
Kayar, Thiaroye, Yarakh and Yoff	0.27	0.45	0.33	0.47	0.30	0.46
Expenditure in Senegal	77,684.68	66,006.94	73,604.35	62,840.70	76,054.93	64,698.93
Expenditure in Senegal per capita	20,678.40	15,647.79	22,690.14	18,800.45	21,481.92	16,979.35
Motivations
Expected foreign wage	1,850,505	7,008,376	1,141,931	1,158,843	1,567,466	5,486,186
Expected foreign wage per capita	1,089,245	6,829,681	600,252.9	1,021,903	893,918	5,332,343
Restrictive immigration policies	0.62	0.49	0.79	0.41	0.68	0.47
Having relatives abroad	0.66	0.48	0.88	0.33	0.74	0.44
Destination and Prices
Spain preferred	0.18	0.39	0.41	0.49	0.27	0.44
Italy preferred	0.15	0.36	0.26	0.44	0.19	0.39
US preferred	0.31	0.46	0.16	0.37	0.25	0.43
France preferred	0.15	0.36	0.03	0.16	0.10	0.31
United Kingdom preferred	0.06	0.24	0.03	0.18	0.05	0.22
Canada preferred	0.04	0.20	0.01	0.12	0.03	0.17
Anywhere preferred	0.11	0.31	0.10	0.31	0.11	0.31
Visa price					829,785.10	485,625.33
Pirogue price					419,089.91	43,049.96
Embassy price					3,071 603	935,445.5
Migration prices					2,220,254	1,756,592

Note: Amounts are presented in Fcfa and 1 Euro = 655.957 Fcfa.

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