Some aspects of internal annual migration in India

Data collected in 1973-1974 during the twenty-eighth round of the National Sample Survey are used to analyze annual internal migration in India. "The analysis reveals that [the in-migration] rate for all-India was estimated at 91 for the rural and 104 for the urban areas per 10,000 population. Out of the total migration intra-state migration was as high as 87 percent and more than 68 percent came from rural areas. The most important flow of migration was rural to rural and next to that was urban to urban followed by rural to urban and urban to rural." Findings are also presented concerning variations among states, rates of urbanization, the age and sex composition of migrants, reasons for migration, the educational level of labor migrants, and changes since the 1963-1964 round of the survey.