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Abstract
Worldwide people migrate to improve their quality of life (QOL). This article determines whether the QOL of Southern African Development Community (SADC) migrants in South Africa has improved or deteriorated from 2001 to 2011. Variables pertaining to several dimensions of QOL (socio-economic characteristics, housing conditions, ownership of household goods and service delivery) were extracted from Census unit records, after which percentages were calculated and then standardized by subtracting the mean and dividing by the standard deviation. A factor analysis was then performed to determine the most important variables influencing the QOL of SADC migrants. Lastly, a mixed-model repeated-measures ANOVA was calculated, using the province and year as fixed effects, and municipalities as random effects, to assess whether statistically significant changes had occurred. Findings show an improvement in the socio-economic and service delivery dimensions of QOL for SADC migrants in South Africa as a whole from 2001 to 2011, but housing conditions had deteriorated, while the ownership of household goods remained relatively unchanged. However, the Western Cape is the only province where SADC migrants experienced an exceptional deterioration of most QOL dimensions. Some aspects to consider to improve the QOL of the SADC migrants are discussed.
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