The countrywide migration rate during the period July 2020-21 was 28.9%, with male migration rate at 10.7% and female at 47.9%. According to the survey, the migration rate for any category of person (eg, rural or urban, male or female) is the percentage of migrants belonging to that category of persons.
Migration details of family members as part of the PLFS survey, details about temporary visitors to the house coming after March 2020 and staying in the house for a period of 15 consecutive days or more but less than six months The information was collected. Get a better picture of the migration situation in the country. The mass exodus due to the post-pandemic lockdown had prompted calls for better data on the issue to formulate policies to deal with the surge in such movement.
The data shows that about 50% of the men moved from rural areas, while 47% were from urban areas, according to their place of last normal residence. Among women it was 78.8% from rural areas and 21% from urban centres. For all migrants, 73.4% were from rural areas and 25.9% from urban centres.
In the same state category, 65.6% of males were in rural areas and 31.4% were in urban centres. For women, it was 92.6% in rural areas and 7.2% in urban centres. In this category, 2.9% were from other countries for men and 0.2% for women, and 0.7% overall.
The survey looked at the distribution of internal migrants by four types of migration streams, including rural-to-rural, rural-to-urban, urban-to-rural and urban-to-urban. For males, rural to rural was estimated at 18%, urban to rural 20.8%, rural to urban 33.5% and urban-to-urban 27.6%.