Determinants and their role in emigration process: Neural network and cluster analysis

Peoples are migrating due to the worldwide current economic condition. The purpose of this study is also to investigate those factors that become the reason of emigration and have social economic impact on emigrant's family members. Consider factors are education, poverty, high crime rate, social status, unemployment and motivation have been nominated as factors for emigration. The study region is the Gujrat district, Pakistan and respondents selected by cluster sampling technique. Confirmatory factor analysis support that all factors are significance as a whole. In neural network analysis results categorizes the family members of emigrant as the most important variable followed by level of education of emigrant and poverty. Cluster Analysis shows that Motivation, Social Status and Poverty are the main operating factors that play significant role in migration of majority people from one to another place. The conclusion is also that the living conditions of the Emigrant's family particularly improved.