After an official inquiry (1819 21) by John Thomas Bigge, the government encouraged the migration of men of some standing and wealth to both New South Wales and Tasmania.
This reallocation of task within the household was due to the seasonal migration of men to the coast for fishing and to their frequent search for odd jobs in response to the increasingly cash exigent economy.
The age and sex distribution of the study population may have resulted from the migration of men and young people from rural areas to cities or lower participation among older and younger person.
18 This may be explained in part by the fact that the mean age of our study population was 41, two thirds were women, the prevalence of high risk sexual behaviour was low, and the area is rural with considerable migration of men for work.
In South Africa, people in the age range considered for this study come from a generation renowned for migration of men to the mines and cities for paid work while the women remained in their rural homes with the care burden for children and those with disabilities [ 66].
This is an especially grave problem where the migration of men to cities in search of an income is a massive and socially disruptive trend that often leaves women without money to meet even the most basic needs of their young and old family members.
In minutes we traced migrations of men over thousands of years; seconds, the briefest glimpse, and we passed battlefields on which millions of men once struggled and died.
The age-specific sex ratios of the male per 100 female person-years were less skewed in Abhoynagar than Mirsarai, with sex ratio being the lowest in the age group 15 49 due to higher out-migration of men aged 15 49 in the latter site.
In other settings such as Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, other factors were contributory, including the seasonal migration of young men from Sahel countries to southern countries and sociocultural beliefs that men should not attend the same activities at the same time as women and children.
aMultivariate analyses modelling the migration propensities of men and women using logit probability models has confirmed that marital status is differentially significant in the migration projects of men and women.
