Determinants Of Child Labor In Rural Parts Of Southern Nations Nationalities And Peoples Regional State (snnpr)

The main objective o f this study is to identi fy some of the factors that determine childrnlabor and to see how they contribute to the widesp read practice of child labor in ruralrnparts of SNNP region. The source of data used in thi s study is the 200 1 Ethiopia ChildrnLabor Survey conducted by Central Statistical Agency (CSA) of Ethiopia. The totalrnnumber of cases in thi s study is 4859 of which 2042 are not worki ng (control) group andrn28 17 are working children. Both descriptive and in fe renti al techniques were employed tornanalyze the data. Freq uency di stributi on was used to see the percentage share among thernbackground variables. Moreover, to see the associati on of the predictor variablcs with therndepe ndent vari able and to !-ind out the main determinants or c hild labor among diffe rentrnsocio-eeonomic and demographic variabl es, univari ate and multi variate stati sticalrntechniques were employed. The analysis or the data using logistic regression methodrnrevealed that work status of children is associated with : age of child , sex of child. re li gionrnof head of the household, mi gration status of head or the household, household size,rnhousehold income, education status of head oT the housellOld, school attendance or chi Idrnand marital status of head of the household.

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