MONITORING INTERNATIONAL LABOR STANDARDS: QUALITY OF INFORMATION by National Research Council of the National Academies

Author:National Research Council of the National Academies
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Industry and Labor : Workforce and Labor Issues
Publisher: NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS
Published: 2003-04-28T00:00:00+00:00

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Measuring Child Labor

PRESENTATION

Data Analyst Amy Ritualo (2002), of the ILO International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, said that, unlike previous speakers, she would not claim that child labor was the most difficult to measure of the four labor standards. On the contrary, researchers have made “great strides” in collecting data on child labor. Nevertheless, she said, child labor researchers face some of the same challenges mentioned by experts on the other labor standards. These include the challenge of translating ILO standards into quantifiable measures and the difficulty of investigating the worst forms of child labor, which are illegal and often hidden.

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