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69 3 Famine, Mortality, and Migration: A Study of North Korean Migrants in China W Courtland Robinson, Myung Ken Lee, Kenneth Hill, and Gilbert Burnham This is a famine in slow motion.
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70 FAMINE, MORTALITY, AND MIGRATION: NORTH KOREAN MIGRANTS and 1996, and drought in 1997 have brought on a severe food crisis in the reclusive, communist nation that has placed millions of people at risk of starvation. Infusions of international food aid since 1996 are believed to have helped stabilize the situation, at least in certain areas and among targeted populations, but the crisis does not seem to have passed.
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72 FAMINE, MORTALITY, AND MIGRATION: NORTH KOREAN MIGRANTS In May 1998, one Korean-Chinese interviewer was selected for each site and provided with several days of individual training, including such topics as survey methodology, techniques for good interviewing, and questionnaire formats. We also employed three field supervisors to provide ongoing monitoring of the interviews and checking of the questionnaires.
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74 FAMINE, MORTALITY, AND MIGRATION: NORTH KOREAN MIGRANTS Overall, crude mortality rates in the 381 North Korean households included in our sample rose from 22.1/1000 in 1995 to 51.8/1000 in 1996 and 49.9/1000 in 1997. The death rate in 1998, however, declined to 27.0/ 1000.
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76 FAMINE, MORTALITY, AND MIGRATION: NORTH KOREAN MIGRANTS Mortality and Household Characteristics In the following discussion, our unit of analysis is the household and the dependent variable is dichotomous: 0=no deaths in the household, 1995-1998; 1=any deaths in the household, 1995-1998. The 210 deaths reported during the interval occurred in 148 out of 381 households (38.8 percent)
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78 FAMINE, MORTALITY, AND MIGRATION: NORTH KOREAN MIGRANTS Source of Food Historically, nearly three-quarters of the North Korean population have been entitled to purchase heavily subsidized food rations through the government's Public Distribution System (PDS)
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80 FAMINE, MORTALITY, AND MIGRATION: NORTH KOREAN MIGRANTS that they had traveled an average of 143 kilometers from their home to the border and another 127 kilometers from the border to the site where they were interviewed. The second figure, if accurate, reflects a significant amount of local movement within China.
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82 FAMINE, MORTALITY, AND MIGRATION: NORTH KOREAN MIGRANTS wasted and 32.8 percent (48/146) were undernourished.
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84 FAMINE, MORTALITY, AND MIGRATION: NORTH KOREAN MIGRANTS evidence of significantly elevated mortality among at least some North Korean households, especially in North Hamkyong province. This excess mortality, moreover, was associated with food insecurity.
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