АУТОР / AUTHOR(S): Marija Ljakoska 
, Aneta Gacovska-Barandovska , Biljana Apostolovska Toshevska , Mirjanka Madžević , Danica Šantić , Milica Langović
DOI: 10.46793/CSGE5.39ML
САЖЕТАК / ABSTRACT:
The socio-economic conditions in which people live affect their attitudes about life, habits, and customs. They also play an important role, especially in young people’s life and their decision of the place they choose to spend their adult life and even create a family.
Migration, especially emigration is one of the key components of population dynamics which influences the overall development of particular country. Unfortunately, this process mostly includes young people which are the basis for creating sustainable development and therefore, a research of this kind seemed more than necessary.
This research was based on analyses of data collected via survey conducted in May and June of 2022 and March 2024. The survey included a little over 400 respondents, all students of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (PMF) in Skopje, North Macedonia, divided into three categories, i.e., undergraduate students, master students, and PhD students. Given the sample size, and the large share of undergraduates (over 94%), this was the set of data that were processed. In the analyses we compared the attitudes of boys and girls and their socio-economic status.
The aim of the research was to test whether there is any difference regarding motives and attitudes for migration of different gender regarding the following questions:
- The intentions to move,
- The reasons to move,
- Who are you planning to emigrate with?,
- For how long are you planning to stay abroad, and
- What is the main obstacle to emigration?
The data analyses included a correlation between the socio-economic status of the student or his family and their motives and intensions to move, the country they want to move to, and the job they are willing to work in the new place of residence. For the analysis
of the variance of the means of the two groups, the standard statistical tests were used, while the one-way ANOVA test was used for testing five hypotheses for the equality of the means of the two independent specimens. A chi-squared test of independence of a pair of random variables based on observations was made, for the whole sample. The research and the gained results about the attitudes toward migration of students are expected to contribute to the creation of appropriate economic, social, and demographic policies, which will enable improvement of the demographic situation in the country, which has been quite worrisome for a long time, especially if migration movements are taken into account.
КЉУЧНЕ РЕЧИ / KEYWORDS:
migrations; students; survey; North Macedonia