Major factors and conditions for migration: survey in Chifeng, Nei Mongol Autonomous Region

The author analyzes results from a 1985 survey by the Institute of Sociology of Beijing University that examined rural-rural migration of household heads in the Chifeng region of China. "The key issues addressed by the survey included the number of immigrants in the current rural population in Chifeng; the immigrant's date of arrival; the factors that led them to leave their native places and choose Chifeng to settle down [in] and the conditions encountered in the process of their migration and settlement." More than 2,000 families were included in the survey.