Demographic and socioeconomic variables by direction of migration
| Variables | Categories | Direction of migration of children | ||||||
| Non-migrant | Rural to urban | Urban to urban | χ2 | |||||
| n | % | n | % | n | % | p Value | ||
| Migration status of parents | NM | 466 | 28.4% | 20 | 7.2% | 75 | 15.9% | <0.001 |
| One migrant parent | 600 | 36.6% | 83 | 30.1% | 182 | 38.5% | ||
| Two migrant parents | 574 | 35.0% | 173 | 62.7% | 216 | 45.7% | ||
| Colombian children | No | 1598 | 97.4% | 270 | 97.8% | 420 | 88.4% | <0.001 |
| Yes | 42 | 2.6% | 6 | 2.2% | 55 | 11.6% | ||
| Age of children (years) | ≤9 | 901 | 53.2% | 121 | 42.3% | 246 | 50.6% | 0.003 |
| >10 | 793 | 46.8% | 165 | 57.7% | 240 | 49.4% | ||
| Sex of children | Male | 930 | 54.9% | 130 | 45.5% | 239 | 49.2% | 0.003 |
| Female | 764 | 45.1% | 156 | 54.5% | 247 | 50.8% | ||
| Farm environment | Non-farm | 1464 | 86.4% | 236 | 82.5% | 403 | 82.9% | 0.059 |
| Farm | 230 | 13.6% | 50 | 17.5% | 83 | 17.1% | ||
| Type of house | Basic urban | 1491 | 88.0% | 242 | 84.6% | 416 | 85.6% | 0.148 |
| Transitional | 203 | 12.0% | 44 | 15.4% | 70 | 14.4% | ||
| Consumption of junk food | Barely | 525 | 35.3% | 73 | 31.7% | 129 | 29.9% | 0.041 |
| Sometimes/week | 733 | 49.3% | 130 | 56.5% | 243 | 56.4% | ||
| Daily | 230 | 15.5% | 27 | 11.7% | 59 | 13.7% | ||
| Parents living in child’s house | Both | 876 | 51.7% | 70 | 24.5% | 176 | 36.2% | <0.001 |
| One | 580 | 34.2% | 103 | 36.0% | 183 | 37.7% | ||
| None | 238 | 14.0% | 113 | 39.5% | 127 | 26.1% | ||