However, the compositional changes in sex-specific education rates have exerted the opposite effect on the overall unemployment rate. The study is based on the Public Use Sample of the 1981 census. The established destinations are defined as the provinces of residence on the census date. Although all six personal factors are shown to have significant effects on the destination choice patterns, their importance varies substantially. It turns out that ethnic origin is by far the most important factor.
Occupation clearly ranks second.
Period of immigration is of moderate importance. The remaining three factors are relatively unimportant. This study tries to identify the determining factors behind Taiwanese decisions to emigrate to South Africa or to re-emigrate. Acculturation level and dissatisfaction level are the causes of their desire to re-emigrate or willingness to settle. Following use of discriminant analysis methods, the author suggests that a recipient country, such as South Africa, should train the adaptive abilities of Taiwanese immigrants, particularly with regard to learning the language, in order to raise their acculturation level and that they should be helped to attain socio-economic achievement in their new country in order to decrease their dissatisfaction level and to increase their willingness to stay permanently in the new country, so preventing them from becoming transients.