Table 1 Types of moves identified in the ACS PUMS microdata, analyzed across the years 2016–2021.

From: Non-coresident family as a driver of migration change in a crisis: the case of the COVID-19 pandemic

Migration rate λm(t)

Migration type

Who moved

Where moved

λ1(t) (m = 1)

Type 1

Individual movers

parents’ home

λ2(t) (m = 2)

Type 2

Individual movers

native place

   

(not joining parents’)

λ3(t) (m = 3)

Type 3

Family household movers

native place

  1. These types of moves represent relocations towards parental and extended family ties (native place, state of birth in this study, is used in the literature as a proxy for presence of family ties Compton and Pollak, 2014). Details and discussion are given in Sections “Investigation 1: micro-level analysis of return-to-home movers” and “Micro-level dynamics of “moving back home”.
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