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Selected Tables
Palestine
MIG - Migration Surveys
Palestinian emigrants (having emigrated 2000-2009 and still abroad in 2010) by some characteristics and sex (in %), 2010
|
Characteristiques
|
Sex
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Males
|
Females
|
Total
|
|
|
Place of birth
|
|||
|
Palestinian Territory
|
85,0
|
76,4
|
82,5
|
|
Other countries
|
15,0
|
23,6
|
17,5
|
|
Total
|
100,0
|
100,0
|
100,0
|
|
Citizenship of the country of residence
|
|||
|
Yes
|
25,0
|
44,0
|
29,4
|
|
No
|
61,9
|
43,1
|
57,5
|
|
Don’t know
|
13,1
|
13,0
|
13,1
|
|
Total
|
100,0
|
100,0
|
100,0
|
|
Citizenship of another country
|
|||
|
Yes
|
7,4
|
8,3
|
7,7
|
|
No
|
91,8
|
89,2
|
91,0
|
|
Don’t know
|
0,8
|
2,6
|
1,3
|
|
Total
|
100,0
|
100,0
|
100,0
|
|
Perceived experience of migration
|
|||
|
Positive
|
44,8
|
43,0
|
43,5
|
|
Negative
|
22,6
|
22,9
|
22,8
|
|
Neither positive nor negative
|
24,9
|
25,1
|
25,1
|
|
Don’t know
|
7,7
|
9,0
|
8,6
|
|
Total
|
100,0
|
100,0
|
100,0
|
|
Desire of any household member to join the emigrant
|
|||
|
Yes
|
16,4
|
28,3
|
24,9
|
|
No
|
83,6
|
71,7
|
75,1
|
|
Total
|
100,0
|
100,0
|
100,0
|
|
Household opinion
|
|||
|
No opinion
|
0,7
|
6,7
|
5,5
|
|
Encouraging them to move there
|
58,8
|
50,1
|
51,7
|
|
Discouraging them to move there
|
35,9
|
40,2
|
39,4
|
|
Others
|
4,6
|
3,1
|
3,4
|
|
Total
|
100,0
|
100,1
|
100,0
|
Source: Migration Survey in the occupied Palestinian territory - 2010, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics PCBS)
Updated: 04/07/2011
Page last updated: 30/05/2006

