Construction of multi-dimensional scale for measuring perception towards migration

Abstract

Growing rural to urban migration assumes special importance for the current socio-economic and agricultural scenario of the country. Understanding the perception of people towards migration is essential in order to understand overall dynamics of migration. A multi-dimensional scale was constructed for measuring perception of respondents towards migration as perception is a multi-dimensional variable. Measuring such variable using uni-dimensional scale might lead to faulty result because of high multi-collinearity effect. For construction of the scale, data were collected from 300 randomly selected respondents of Uttar Pradesh (UP), Bihar and Maharashtra. After construction of the scale, perception of respondents towards migration was measured. For this purpose, forty farmers and ten extension professionals, each from Jhansi (UP), Bhagalpur (Bihar) and Nashik (Maharashtra) were chosen randomly. The results showed that farmers of Jhansi and Bhagalpur held significantly more favourable perception towards migration than that of Nashik. However, no significant difference was found in case of the professionals of three regions. The findings of the study could be useful for developing an insight about the migration dynamics of the country.