Table 2 Reasons for coming to Ireland, prior experience and years spent in Ireland compared with migration intentions
Reasons/Intentions | Migration intentions | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Intends to remain in Ireland n (%) | Intends to return home n (%) | Intends to migrate to onwards n (%) | Total n (%) | P valuea | |
Reasons for coming to Irelandb | |||||
For post-graduate medical qualificationsc | 86 (83 %) | 52 (68 %) | 122 (81 %) | 260/331 (79 %) | 0.0236 |
For higher salaryc | 30 (32 %) | 25 (33 %) | 79 (52 %) | 134/324 (41 %) | 0.0018 |
For family reasonsc | 43 (47 %) | 20 (27 %) | 48 (32 %) | 111/315 (35 %) | 0.0161 |
For safety/securityc | 47 (51 %) | 28 (38 %) | 69 (47 %) | 144/315 (46 %)d | 0.2502 |
Years of experience prior to arrival | |||||
<5 | 8 (8 %) | 16 (20 %) | 15 (9 %) | 39 (11 %) | 0.0043 |
6–10 | 12 (12 %) | 12 (15 %) | 37 (23 %) | 61 (18 %) | |
11–15 | 20 (19 %) | 17 (22 %) | 28 (18 %) | 65 (19 %) | |
16–20 | 15 (14 %) | 4 (5 %) | 29 (18 %) | 48 (14 %) | |
21–25 | 21 (20 %) | 8 (10 %) | 18 (11 %) | 47 (14 %) | |
>25 | 28 (27 %) | 22 (28 %) | 33 (21 %) | 83 (24 %) | |
TOTAL | 104 (100 %) | 79 (100 %) | 160 (100 %) | 343 (100 %)d | |
Years spent in Ireland | |||||
<2 | 8 (9 %) | 12 (20 %) | 17 (13 %) | 37 (13 %) | 0.0054 |
3–5 | 5 (5 %) | 9 (15 %) | 29 (22 %) | 43 (15 %) | |
6–10 | 31 (33 %) | 16 (27 %) | 43 (32 %) | 90 (31 %) | |
11–15 | 22 (23 %) | 12 (20 %) | 26 (19 %) | 60 (21 %) | |
>15 | 28 (30 %) | 10 (17 %) | 19 (14 %) | 57 (20 %) | |
Total | 94 (100 %) | 59 (100 %) | 134 (100 %) | 287 (100 %)e | |