**3.1 Population characteristics and migration trajectory**

As indicated in **Table 1**, most of the sampled population was female, which constituted (65.5%). The age group with the highest sample (61.9%) was between the ages of 18 and 25 (M = 1.52, SD = 0.84). A little over half (50.4%) of the respondents had had no education. Among the regions sampled, the northern region of Ghana had the highest proportion of respondents (93.8%) (see **Table 2**). The need to seek better employment opportunities (85.0%) accounted for most of the reasons for coming to the city of Accra. In an interview, it emerged that most of the migrants had come to Accra mainly to work to go back and trade. This was revealed in an interview:


*I came to Accra to look for money to go and learn a trade [IDI, female migrant, Agbogloshie].*

**Table 1.** *Population characteristics.* *In the Process of Being Left Behind: Rural-Urban Migration, Precarious Work Conditions... DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.106907*

