Determinants of life satisfaction among migrants in South Africa: an analysis of the GCRO’s quality of life survey (2009–2021)

Table 3 Correlation between Life satisfaction and Factor-related indicators (individual, household and community) among Migrants in South Africa, 2009–2021

Factors-related indicators	Migration status
	Internal migrants			International migrants
	N	r	ρ-value	N	r	ρ-value
Independent-level factors
Gender	21,879	2.0064	0.34	4,807	1.0092	0.51
Age	21,879	1.0828	0.00 *	4,807	2.0534	0.00 *
Education	21,879	3.0153	0.02 *	4,807	2.0624	0.00 *
Population Group	21,879	1.1335	0.00 *	4,807	1.1327	0.00 *
Income	21,879	1.1627	0.02 *	4,807	3.1525	0.00 *
Employment	21,879	0.0623	0.03 *	4,807	0.0169	0.23
Health insurance cover	21,879	1.1230	0.00 *	4,807	1.1161	0.00 *
Healthcare services usage	21,879	1.0405	0.03 *	4,807	1.0300	0.03 *
Household-level factors
No. of persons living in H/H	21,879	− 0.0084	0.21	4,807	0.0113	0.42
No. of persons under 18 in H/H	21,879	− 0.0296	0.02 *	4,807	0.0074	0.60
Not enough money to feed children	21,879	− 0.0366	0.01 *	4,807	0.0236	0.09
Receiving SASSA social grant	21,879	− 0.0518	0.05 *	4,807	0.0178	0.21
Community-level factors
Type of dwelling	21,879	− 0.2161	0.00*	4,807	− 0.1980	0.00 *

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