Self-selection patterns among return migrants: Mexico 1990-2010

Table 1 Descriptive statistics: Full population

	1990		2000		2010
	S	RM	S	RM	S	RM
N	3,433,584	6,868	4,536,879	38,320	5,521,552	108,691
Age	34.4	33.3	35.1	32.5	36.6	34.3
Male	0.48	0.66	0.47	0.75	0.47	0.76
Rural	0.25	0.28	0.22	0.32	0.20	0.36
High Migration Region	0.21	0.50	0.20	0.45	0.21	0.35
Low Migration Region	0.15	0.01	0.15	0.04	0.15	0.09
Intermediate Migration Region	0.34	0.15	0.36	0.28	0.37	0.36
North Region	0.14	0.25	0.14	0.16	0.14	0.16
High Migration x Rural	0.06	0.20	0.05	0.19	0.05	0.15
Low Migration x Rural	0.06	0.00	0.06	0.01	0.06	0.05
North Region x Rural	0.02	0.03	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02
Intermediate Migration x Rural	0.10	0.05	0.09	0.10	0.08	0.14
Indigenous	0.08	0.02	0.07	0.03	0.07	0.04
Years of Schooling	6.36	6.93	7.98	7.90	9.26	8.42
No Education	0.15	0.08	0.07	0.03	0.05	0.02
Primary Incomplete	0.25	0.24	0.19	0.19	0.11	0.12
Primary	0.26	0.32	0.25	0.30	0.20	0.28
Secondary	0.20	0.21	0.24	0.27	0.28	0.35
High School	0.10	0.11	0.21	0.18	0.28	0.20
College	0.04	0.04	0.05	0.03	0.07	0.03

Notes: S denotes stayers and RM return migrants. The sample is restricted to individuals who are 20–59 years old. Indigenous is a dichotomic variable representing the population that speaks an indigenous language. The states were divided into the following groups. i) High migration: Aguascalientes, Durango, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Michoacán, San Luis Potosí and Zacatecas; ii) low migration: Campeche, Chiapas, Quintana Roo, Tabasco and Veracruz; iii) intermediate migration: Colima, Estado de México, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Morelos, Nayarit Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, Tlaxcala and Sinaloa; iv) north region: Baja California, Baja California Sur, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Sonora and Tamaulipas. Proportions do not add 1 because Mexico City and Nuevo Leon are omitted. Rural represents the population living in areas with 2500 inhabitants or fewer. Years of schooling includes only the completed years. Primary incomplete, Primary, Secondary, High School and College indicate 1–5 years of schooling, 6–8 years of schooling, 9–11 years of schooling. 12–16 years of schooling and 17 years of schooling or more, respectively.