Child Labour Baseline Survey 2009
Uganda, 2009
Identification
UGA_2009_CLS_v01_M
Child Labour Baseline Survey 2009
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Uganda | UGA |
Child Labor Survey [hh/cls]
This is the first stand alone study on Child Labour carried out in Uganda.
The purpose of the 2009 child labour Baseline Survey was to facilitate the measurement of the levels and nature of child labour in the focus districts of Rakai, Mbale and Wakiso. The specific objectives were:
(i) To collect information on the main characteristics of working children and those of the households they live in ( i.e. their demographic composition and details by age/ sex/ ethnicity/ marital status/disability status/orphan hood/ literacy and educational status/ classification by industry occupation and status in employment/ earnings and weekly hours of work/ location of work place/ reasons for not attending school/ reasons for working/ types of unpaid household services done and weekly hours performed/ etc);
(ii) To obtain information to support the analysis of the causes and consequences of children engaged in work, including household earnings and debt, perceptions of parents/ guardians/ children, and the hazards and abuses faced by children at their work;
(iii) To obtain (through FGDs and KIIs) information on (a) the various forms of child labour prevailing in the districts, particularly on WFCL such as CSEC, street children, children engaged for illicit activities, and forced work by children (b) the underlying forces leading to the persistence of child labour especially the impact of HIV/AIDS, poverty, adult unemployment, OVC issue, and lack of proper schooling facilities; (c) Child trafficking
(iv) To provide policy makers, researchers and other stakeholders with a comprehensive information and a set of indicators on child labour to guide interventions;
(v) To act as a basis for the creation of a long-term database on child labour in Uganda.
Sample survey data [ssd]
Household, individual
Version
v1.2: Edited data, second version, for internal use only.
2009-09
Scope
The scope of the Child Labour Baseline Survey 2009 includes: Background characteristics of household members, education and training, labour force status and hours of work, time spent on non-market activities, occupational health and safety, perceptions of parents/guardians on working children, household and housing conditions.
| Topic | Vocabulary | URI |
|---|---|---|
| LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT [3] | CESSDA | http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common |
| EDUCATION [6] | CESSDA | http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common |
Coverage
The Child Labour Baseline Survey (2009) was carried out in the districts of Rakai, Wakiso and Mbale.
The survey covered all de jure household members aged 5 years and above resident in the household, and all children aged 5 - 17 years resident in the household.
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) | Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development |
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Government of Uganda | Main financier |
| International Labour Organisation | Main financier |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Respondents | Communities | Provided the required information |
Sampling
The Enumeration Areas (EAs) from the 2002 Population and Housing Census household counts were used as the sampling frame for each of the districts. Each EA was accurately and uniquely identified together with the number of households in it. Independent representative samples were selected from each of the districts using population proportional to size (PPS) with the number of households in the EA with children taken as a measure of size. A representative sample was selected from each of these focus districts. In order to ensure that reliable estimates are got for each district, EAs were distributed among the districts according to the measures of size.
A total of 1,617 households were selected for the Child Labour Baseline Survey (CLBS) sample. Out of these, 1,585 households were successfully interviewed, yielding a household response rate of 98 percent. A total of 4,431 children aged 5-17 years were listed from the selected households in the household schedule, of which 4,306 children successfully responded to questions about activity status. This gave a children response rate of 97.2 percent
Survey instrument
Two sets of questionnaires were used in the study. The household questionnaire was the main questionnaire and collected information on all sampled households. The second set of the questionnaire was used as a guide to collect responses during focus group discussions (FGDs) and key informant interview (KIIs).
The household questionnaire collected detailed information on usual members of the target households, and was used to filter out the children (5-17 years) who were asked additional questions about children’s work.
The following were the broad areas from which data was collected during the Baseline Survey:
(i) Background characteristics of household members;
(ii) Education and Training;
(iii) Labour Force Status and hours of work;
(iv) Time spent on non-market activities;
(v) Occupational health and safety;
(vi) Perceptions of Parents /Guardians on working children;
(vii) Household and Housing conditions.
Data collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2009-07-16 | 2009-08-21 |
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Uganda Bureau of Statistics | Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development |
Staff from UBOS and ILO, Uganda maintained close supervision of the field teams through routine field visits. There was also regular communication between the field teams and the UBOS supervisors. During the routine field visits, UBOS supervisors also collected and returned the completed questionnaires for the subsequent office editing and data capture.
Data processing
Due to the need to have the child labour baseline survey records processed fast enough, this exercise started shortly after the commencement of fieldwork. The office editing/coding and data capture process for the survey took approximately 2 weeks. It involved double data entry which ensured that the accuracy of the captured data was checked in the second data capture routine hence increasing on its accuracy. After the data capture machine editing involving structural and consistency edits was carried out before data analysis. The data capture screen was developed using the CSPro (Census and Survey Processing) software.
Data appraisal
Annex 3 of the final report presents the standard errors, CVs and confidence intervals for selected indicators.
Data Access
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uganda Bureau of Statistics | Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development | http://www.ubos.org | ubos@ubos.org |
| Is signing of a confidentiality declaration required? | Confidentiality declaration text |
|---|---|
| yes | Confidentiality of respondents is guaranteed by Article 19 of The Uganda Bureau of Statistics Act, 1998. Before being granted access to the dataset, all users have to formally agree: 1. To make no copies of any files or portions of files to which s/he is granted access except those authorized by the data depositor. 2. Not to use any technique in an attempt to learn the identity of any person, establishment, or sampling unit not identified on public use data files. 3. To hold in strictest confidence the identification of any establishment or individual that may be inadvertently revealed in any documents or discussion, or analysis. Such inadvertent identification revealed in her/his analysis will be immediately brought to the attention of the data depositor. |
The dataset is available as a Public Use Dataset. It is accessible to all for statistical and research purposes only, under the following terms and conditions:
1.The data and other materials will not be redistributed or sold to other individuals, institutions, or organizations without the written agreement of Uganda Bureau of Statistics.
2.The data will be used for statistical and scientific research purposes only. They will be used solely for reporting of aggregated information, and not for investigation of specific individuals or organizations.
3.No attempt will be made to re-identify respondents, and no use will be made of the identity of any person or establishment discovered inadvertently. Any such discovery would immediately be reported to Uganda Bureau of Statistics.
4. No attempt will be made to produce links among datasets provided by Uganda Bureau of Statistics, or among data from Uganda Bureau of Statistics and other datasets that could identify individuals or organizations.
5. Any books, articles, conference papers, theses, dissertations, reports, or other publications that employ data obtained from Uganda Bureau of Statistics will cite the source of data in accordance with the Citation Requirement provided with each dataset.
6. An electronic copy of all reports and publications based on the requested data will be sent to Uganda Bureau of Statistics.
7. The original collector of the data, Uganda Bureau of Statistics, and the relevant funding agencies bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
"Uganda Bureau of Statistics, Child Labour Baseline Survey (CLBS 2009), v1.2 of the public use dataset (September 2009), provided by the Uganda National Data Archive. www.ubos.org/nada"
Disclaimer and copyrights
The user of the data acknowledges that the Uganda Bureau of Statistics and the relevant funding agency(ies) bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
Contacts
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uganda Bureau of Statistics | Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development | ubos@ubos.org | http://www.ubos.org |
| World Bank Microdata Library | microdata@worldbank.org |
Metadata production
DDI_UGA_2009_CLS_v01_M
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Uganda Bureau of Statistics | Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development | Documentation of the survey/census |
| Accelerated Data Program | International Household Survey Network | Review of the metadata |
2010-09-13
Metadata version
Version 02 (October 2013). Edited version based on Version 01 DDI that was done by Uganda Bureau of Statistics and reviewed by Accelerated Data Program, International Household Survey Network.