Development of Statistical Child Labor Standards for consideration by the 18th International Conference of Labor Statisticians (ICLS)

GLOBAL

September 2004 – October 2008

FY2004: $1,000,000

There is no internationally agreed upon statistical definition of child labor, which complicates the task of preparing comparable, credible, and unambiguous estimates of child labor across multiple countries.

• Increased comparability between countries;

• Increased credibility of child labor estimates at the country, regional, and global level;

• Enhanced capacity of governments to measure child labor in their countries using definitions and methodologies that are acceptable by global standards.

• Develop background papers on the various methodologies and definitions in use to measure child labor;

• Review data collected on children’s activities from various types of surveys;

• Conduct a web-based forum to disseminate draft papers and reports on child labor to a wider international audience;

• Develop a technical report and draft resolution on child labor statistics to be placed before the 18th ICLS and for consideration by international experts, governments and ILO constituents at a series of meetings organized by the ILO;

• Develop guidelines on data collection for implementing the suggested new international statistical standards on identification of child labor;

• Conduct follow up efforts with governments to ensure eventual adoption of the draft resolution at the 18th ICLS.

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

I PEC’s Statistical Information & Monitoring Program on Child Labor (SIMPOC)

Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking (OCFT)
(202) 693-4843

• ILAB Mission Statement
• Leadership
• Organization
• Key Personnel

• OCFT
• OIR
• OTLA

• Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act
• Executive Order 13126