The typical profile of the emigrant all over the world is known to include,
among other things, a good representation of people with a medium level of education
and the Moldovan emigrant does not represent an exception to this pattern.
But, as the last population census keeps unallowed silence on such a delicate
social topic as migrations, we find ourselves forced to face the impossible situation in
which any thorough analysis is – officially speaking – forbidden. Thus, in order to
remove the statistical quasi-enigmas that join the present migrations of our fellow
country men, between June 2009 and June 2010 we carried on an ample sociogeographical
survey at the scale of the whole province, recording a number of 9,959
people who went abroad after 1989 for exclusively economic reasons. In order to
achieve this goal, we made use of the directed (reasoned) survey method which, unlike
the random survey, has the advantage of providing much more accurate information,
focusing on a social group that is strictly delimited from the others according to a
clearly shaped criterion – the participation in migrations in our case.