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Global Projects

Project Title

Implementation of SIMPOC External Advisory Committee Recommendations: Refinement of SIMPOC Instruments

Region/Country

GLOBAL

Project Duration

September 2003 – June 2008

Fiscal Year & Funding Level

FY2002: $916,318

Problem to be Addressed

In an environment with increasing need for more and better data on child labor and based on the valuable advice of the SIMPOC External Advisory Committee (SEAC), this project targets critical areas for increasing the quality, national ownership, and sustainability of statistical programs on child labor.

Project Objectives

  • Development of a limited set of questions to be included in ongoing national household sample surveys;

  • Development of more appropriate questions to be addressed to children;

  • Development of refined sampling methodologies for more effective household-based child labor surveys;

  • Use of the revised methodologies in one country, Kyrgyzstan.

Summary of Activities

  • Revise national child labor questionnaire;

  • Revise sampling methodology;

  • Pilot test questionnaires and sampling methodologies;

  • Revise child-specific questionnaire;

  • Pilot test child-specific questionnaire;

  • Revise child labor survey methodological manuals;

  • Conduct national child labor survey in Kyrgyzstan.

Grantee

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

Implementing Partners

Reputable international and national research institutions; National Statistical Offices.

Contact Information

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