PACES Residents and migrants in Ethiopia

To qualify, international migrants had to live in these cities for at least three months and no longer than five years. However, it proved difficult to apply this time limit and the dataset include migrants who have been in Adama and Kebribeyah longer than five years. The questionnaire had structured pre-defined open- and close-ended questions.

The data were collected via the Kobo Toolkit application. The close-ended answers were exported to xls files, while answers to open-ended questions in transcripts in Word files. The interviews were conducted in Arabic or English in Adama and Somali in Kebribeyah, depending on the participant's language of fluency.

Background

This dataset is one of the key components of the PACES project, which aimed to understand how people decide to migrate, stay (or return for migrants). In particular, PACES sought to understand how people perceive major changes in society, how they understand their past-present and future, and how these factors influence their aspirations to stay or migrate. Purpose The data capture people's perceptions of their current place of residence, what they expect in the future, both in society and in their personal lives, how they see migration and their own mobility preferences.

This dataset gathers evidence on how in these two cities in Ethiopia people understand migration, what they value about it as well as what they value about staying. Data Collection and

Methods

The data in this dataset were collected through semi-structured interviews and through focus group discussions. Research Limitations The limited number of interviews make this dataset not representative. However, the interviews are in-depth and give participants the opportunity to highlight what is important for them in their lives and what matters in their decisions to stay or migrate.

Data Structure and Relationships Between Files Each row in the Excel files has one corresponding transcript. To be clear, the Excel file for Residents has a corresponding Resident transcript, and the same goes for Migrant files. Value of the data for potential reuse This dataset has high value as it records people's perspectives on life in these cities at this point in time, a moment of turbulence and high uncertainty in Ethiopia's history.

In addition to migration scholars, scholars of Ethiopia may be interested in these records. Results At the moment, these data have been used for three working papers, none of them published yet. Conclusion This dataset has important value but its in-depth nature makes it difficult to anonymise the data without losing meaning.

For this reason, this dataset is closed access. Access status: Closed Access Data availability: The dataset is not accessible. The repository record provides metadata only about the dataset.