Child labour: A review based on data from the UNICEF Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey programme
Since the mid-1990s, the UNICEF Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey (MICS) programme has enabled many developing countries to produce statistically sound and internationally comparable estimates of a range of indicators in the areas of health, education and child protection. The current paper draws on MICS datasets to provide a review of child labour in the countries where the survey programme has been implemented. The MICS programme provides information on children’s involvement in child labour, on some of its characteristics and on some of the factors that underlie it. Child labour information is available for the 2000 and 2005/06 rounds of the survey programme, also permitting an assessment of how levels of child labour have changed between these reference years. The paper also discusses how the MICS instrument could be strengthened as a tool to guide policy and programming in the area of child labour.
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2010-09
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Authors: | Scott, L. ; Valdivia, C. A. |
Institutions: | Inter-Agency Research Cooperation Project: Understanding Children's Work and Its Impact (UCW) |
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