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Di Maio – Nandi
Year (%)
2000a 4.0 5.3 4.0 4.0 6.1
2001 15.6 7.0 15.9 15.5 19.5
2002 13.4 4.1 13.7 13.4 13.1
2003 17.7 15.5 17.7 17.7 16.2
2004 16.4 11.1 16.6 16.5 14.7
2005 16.4 19.2 16.3 16.5 13.8
2006 16.5 37.9 15.7 16.5 16.6
Sample size (N) 41,789 1,501 40,288 40,806 983
Note: a Data refers only to the 4th quarter. Source: Authors’ elaboration based on data from PCBS.
Table 3: Child labour and school attendance rates by age group and year
Working
Child School
Working Studying Neither
and
labour attendance
studying only only (1)+(2) (1)+(3)
Total sample 3.0 0.6 94.7 1.7 3.6 97.6
Age (%)
10-12 years 2.0 0.1 96.9 1.0 2.1 98.9
13-14 years 4.6 1.5 91.1 2.9 6.1 95.6
Year (%)
2000 3.4 1.3 93.0 2.3 4.7 96.4
2001 1.0 0.6 96.0 2.4 1.6 97.1
2002 0.6 0.5 97.1 1.9 1.1 97.7
2003 2.5 0.7 95.4 1.5 3.1 97.8
2004 1.9 0.6 96.0 1.5 2.4 97.9
2005 3.6 0.6 94.4 1.4 4.2 98.0
2006 7.5 0.8 90.2 1.6 8.3 97.6
Source: Authors’ elaboration based on data from PCBS.
5. Estimation results
5.1. The effect of closure days on child labour and school attendance
Table 4 reports the estimation results for the biprobit model described in Section 3. In
Column 1 we estimate the effect of the number of closure days on child labour and school
attendance controlling for the age of the child, the parents’ education level and for district