This paper examines the role of educational level and age in the decision making process of female migration. It analyse the trend of female migrants with respect to their educational qualification and age at migration. It tries to explain how educational qualification and their age effect their migration decision. Urbanization has positively affected migration. It has opened up many opportunities. Over the years, the number of female migrants has increased worldwide. Now, female migrants comprise of 50percent of international migrants. Further, many efforts have been made to educate and empower women all over the world. India is not an exception in this regard. Hence, it is important to see if women especially from backward areas are being able to utilize these opportunities. Empirically, education and age has been considered as among the major determinant of migration. In general, the literature appears to favour the prospect that educational attainment does increase the likelihood of migration. Further, educated and young women are likely to take part in the migration decision not only of their but also of the family. They may be involved in the decision making process, not only whether to migrate or not but also where to migrate. This would in turn enhance their status in the family as well as in the society. Based on the secondary data on internal female migrants, this paper attempts to establish this positive relationship of migration with educational attainment and age of females. The study considers females of 15-49 age groups who have migrated to the urban areas of India.
