Demographic Characteristics of Recently Migrated Sri Lankan Youths for Foreign Jobs

Madhavi Bandara
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Madhavi Bandara: University of Colombo , Sri Lanka

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, 2023, vol. 7, issue 10, 638-648

Abstract: Young migrants make up more than 10 per cent of the overall 232 million international migrants, and, are the most mobile social group (International Labour Migration, 2023). Young people constitute the bulk of annual migration movements in most countries. Within this background the objective of this study is to identify the Demographic characteristics of recently migrated Sri Lankan youths for foreign jobs from 2018 to 2022. This study builds on the secondary data obtained from the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment. From the mass data set carried out 901,778 migrants, 1% of the probability sample has been selected using a simple random sampling method with less than 2 percent of margin of error. Youth migrants aged 20 – 34 have been derived as the study sample. Thus, 3814 cases have been utilized to carry out this study. According to the study, 76% of the migrants are males while 24% of them are females. Under the SLBFE classification of skill category and gender, there is a visible connection between gender and skill level. Pearson Chi-square value proves it with 0.000

Date: 2023
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