Female Migrants Heading Household and Rental Housing in South Africa: Insight from Municipalities.

Philomene Nsengiyumva, University of the Western Cape
Gabriel G. Tati, University of the Western Cape

The participation of females in migration worldwide is not something recent. In the context of South Africa, women are not exempted from migration behaviour. The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship between migration and rental housing among female migrants heading household across municipalities of South Africa. The specific objective is to identify the factors contributing towards rental housing among female migrants by comparing metropolitan and non-metropolitan. This study used the 2016 Community Survey data obtained from Statistics South Africa. Logistic regression analysis was used to test a relationship between sociodemographic, migratory variables and housing related variables. The study found that female migrants heading household are more likely to stay in rented housing in non-metropolitan areas. The major factors mostly help female migrants to access rented housing across different areas of residences are age, population group, level of education, household size, housing structure type, and duration of residence