Child labour: a public health perspective

Type Book Section - An overview of child labour statistics
Title Child labour: a public health perspective
Author(s)
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2010
Page numbers 7-33
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc.
City New York
Country/State USA
URL http://books.google.ca/books?hl=en&lr;=&id=NB4ZXSftcz0C&oi=fnd&pg=PA7&dq;=+comoros+Demographic+Healt​h+Survey+DHS&ots=HRvsCaEKow&sig=SNg8HPM7B6TODi6OOelDWFJmvcU#v=onepage&q=comoros Demographic Health​Survey DHS&f=false
Abstract
In the field of international human rights, the measurement of social phenomena with data and statistics has been integral to chronicling accounts of injustice against humanity. The connection of surveillance data related to social problems may both expose human exploitation and catapult problems into the public arena provoking a political response. In the case of child labour, data collection and analysis has been paramount in harnessing global action against the use of children in exploitative work.

The purpose of this chapter is to provide an overview of child labour data by a discussion of the historical context of data on children's work; available child labour data definitions; methodologies and sources; global estimates on children's work and some discussion on how data collection will be improved in the near future.

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