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572 Migration of Adult Children, Living Arrangement and Geographical Proximity to
Parents: Analysis of the Japanese National Survey on Migration

Masataka Nakagawa, Yoshimi Chitose
National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, Tokyo, Japan

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5. Population Mobility (Internal and International Migration, including Refugees) and Urbanization

Abstract

This paper analyses the relationships between migration of adult children, their co-residing patterns and
geographical distances to parents, highlighting the role of return migration to the non-metropolitan regions. Using
data drawn from the latest Japanese National Survey on Migration conducted in 2016, individual-level
characteristics and migration history of respondents aged 20-49 (N = 34,294) are linked to information on their
parents, including place of residence of non-coresiding parents. The proportion of those who have migrated for
the purpose of “living with” or “living closer to” parents is significantly higher in the non-metropolitan regions, where
return migrants are more likely than stayers (those without inter-prefectural out-migration experience) to live with
their parents. These observations suggest that the higher prevalence of co-residence between parents and their
adult children in the non-metropolitan region is partly sustained by return migration. Among those not living with
their parents, geographical distances to their parents are also narrower in the non-metropolitan regions, but there
is no significant difference by migration status. The effect of return migration on the likelihood of co-residence is
more significant among those aged 40 and over than those in younger age groups, implying that motivations for
return migration vary across life stages.

1527 Decomposing the Socioeconomic Inequality in Malnutrition in Pre-School
children in selected South Asian Countries: Insight from Demographic and Health
Survey

Anita Pal, Madhusudan J.V
Hyderabad Central University, Hyderabad, India

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4. Mortality, Morbidity, Epidemiology and Causes of Death

Abstract

Globally in 2017, 151 million children (22%) were stunted with almost three-quarters of such children living in the
WHO South-East Asia Region or WHO African Region (WHO, 2018) and around 45% of deaths among children
under 5 years of age are linked to undernutrition. This study quantified the contributions of the socioeconomic
determinants of inequality in malnutrition in selected South Asian Countries. Data from the latest Demographic and
Health Surveys were used, and methods developed by Wagstaff and colleagues for decomposing socioeconomic
inequalities in malnutrition were applied. The result showed that although the Concentration Index (CI) was
negative for the selected indicators, meaning stunted and underweight were poorer among lower socioeconomic
status groups, the level of CI varied across the countries for the same outcome indicator: CI of −0.1395, −0.1512,

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