Where do you want to go today?

on Nov 10 in Globalization tagged by Trevor Hicks

Gallup surveyed people from around the world the last few years and created what it is calling the Potential Net Migration Index (PNMI) which shows the aspirations of people regarding where they would like to live, scaled to the population of the destination.  So even though the US has the largest number of potential migrants to its shores, it ranks just outside of the top 10 in the index rankings because of its large population.  Take a guess what you think will be #1 before clicking the link.

A couple of things I find curious, first, Iraq ranks pretty high relative to my expectations, it’s about the median country in fact.  Even Afghanistan ranks ahead of some places I didn’t think were so bad such as Morocco and Honduras.

Second, this really warmed up the statistician in me.  I’d be very curious to see a multi-factor regression to see what elements might predict these results.  Per-capita income?  Per-capita income of immigrants?  What about some measure of personal safety?  How about the WHO health system rankings?  Well, it made me curious enough that I would be interested in reading such analysis, not to actually do it myself.  C’mon, I got football to watch or something.