Third and Fourth Periodic Report on CRC - Unicef

Convention on the Rights of the Child
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Indicators/ Key results
Urban
Rural
Total
12.
Main occupation of parents (percent)
Self employed/ business
32.6
30.8
31.1
Day labourer
27.3
21.5
22.4
Agriculture
11.7
14.6
14.1
Service
5.9
1.7
2.4
Others
22.5
31.4
30.0
Total
100.0
100.0
100.0
13.
Method of recruitment of child workers as reported by
employers (percent)
Through child workers' friends/ relative
13.0
4.5
6.6
Contact through other child workers
3.5
1.7
2.1
Self-contact
15.5
10.5
11.7
At the request of parents
59.4
67.2
65.3
Others
6.8
11.6
10.4
Not reported(NR)
1.9
4.5
3.8
Total
100.0
100.0
100.0
14.
Child workers by level of education (%)
Literate based on informal education
4.6
3.5
3.8
Below class V
57.2
63.1
61.2
Up to class V
29.8
26.2
27.4
Up to class VIII
7.6
6.5
6.9
SSC passed
0.7
0.6
0.6
Others
0.1
0.1
0.1
Total
100.0
100.0
100.0
15.
Child workers by reasons for not attending school (%)
Cannot bear education exp.
42.8
50.4
45.0
For work
22.2
12.6
19.5
Parents did not sent school
10.2
8.8
9.8
School is too far
0.7
0.7
0.7
Un-successes in exam
1.9
2.3
2.0
Abuse/ beatch
0.5
0.4
0.4
Not inter st<strong>and</strong>
19.7
22.8
20.6
Others
2.1
1.9
2.0
Total
100.0
100.0
100.0
16.
Households by main sources of income as reported By
child workers (%)
Farming
11.5
11.7
11.7
Catching fish/ pisciculture
5.6
16.4
13.5
Agriculture day labourers
14.8
13.8
14.1
Non-agriculture day-labourers
24.1
13.9
16.5
Business/ hawking
18.0
15.8
16.4
Service
5.8
1.6
2.8
Rickshaw/ van puller
14.0
23.0
20.5
Others
6.2
3.8
4.5
Total
100.0
100.0
100.0
103