Child Labour Survey 2006-2007

ABSTRACT
During 2002-2003, the National Statistical Office conducted a Child Labour Survey, the first national survey of this kind, as a module of the Labour Force Survey (LFS), carried out in accordance with international standards. The survey allowed collection of a wide-range of child work data in conformity with the ILO concept and methodology and creation of a database on child economic activities, the scope, nature and characteristics of child work. Built on the experience of carrying out the Child Labour Survey as a module of the LFS, it is needed to augment the statistical information required to develop further strategies on child protection and evaluate their implementation, and to include child labour indicators into the labour statistics system. In response to this need, and at the request from the International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour of the International Labour Organization (ILO-IPEC), the National Statistical Office has conducted the second National Child Labour Survey in conjunction with the LFS, capturing four quarters, starting from July 2007, with the financial and technical assistance of the ILO. The Second National Child Labour Survey's particular importance in relation to the previous one is that a new sampling design has been employed and key indicators on child labour have become available at the capital city and aimag level.