National Child Labor Surveys in Selected Countries

Benin, Bolivia, Jordan and Peru

September 2005 – September 2008

FY2005:  $1,593,091

The lack of national level data on the incidence and nature of child labor in developing countries.

Development Objective: The program will contribute to the collection of reliable data to support effective interventions against child labor.  This will be accomplished through the following immediate objective:

• At the end of the program, quantitative and qualitative data on child labor will have been collected, processed, analyzed and disseminated.

Research Design: Data on child labor will be collected through stand-alone surveys in Benin and Bolivia; a linked survey in Jordan; and a modular survey in Peru.

• To obtain detailed data on the extent and nature of child labor in the above countries; and

• Integrate data into the regional child labor database.

International Labor Organization’s International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor (ILO-IPEC)

Ministries of Labor in respective countries; National Institute of Statistics and Economic Analysis (Benin); National Institute of Statistics (Bolivia); Department of Statistics (Jordan); National Institute of Statistics and Data Collection (Peru).

Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking

(202) 693-4843

• ILAB Mission Statement
• Leadership
• Organization
• Key Personnel

• OCFT
• OIR
• OTLA

• Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act
• Executive Order 13126