National Child Labour Survey 2010 - Egypt, Arab Rep.

Abstract
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The overall objective of the Child Labour Survey (CLS) in Egypt is to generate quantitative and qualitative data on labour market and children's activities, including schooling, economic and non-economic activities. Information is generated through interviews with heads of households and children aged 5-17.

The CLS specifically aims at:

- Collecting information on the character, nature, scale and causes of child labour in Egypt; and determining the conditions of work and their effects on the health, education and normal development of working children.
- Strengthening CAPMAS capacity to collect quantitative information critical for planning actions against child labour in Egypt
- Establishing a quantitative information system (database) on child labour that will be updated on a regular basis as new information becomes available through additional surveys and administrative records.
- Providing a comprehensive analysis of the state of working children in Egypt by identifying priority groups and patterns and analyzing working conditions and their effects on children in order to produce inputs towards developing policies and action programs for child labour elimination.
- Producing, presenting and disseminating to the Government, employers' and workers' organization, NGO's and the general public, a comprehensive National Report on Child Labour in Egypt giving the highlights of the statistical findings and results of in-depth analysis, thereby enhancing the knowledge and understanding required to promote a sustainable, multi-disciplinary campaign against child labour involves all relevant key stakeholders.
- Integrating the Egyptian data into the ILO's child labour database.

Geographic coverage
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National

Analysis unit
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- Household
- Individuals

Kind of data
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Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure
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The survey was based on a designed sample of 30,000 households with children between the ages of 5-17 years. The sample was drawn from a master sample of about 1 million households developed by CAPMAS in early 2010, which included information about which households have children between the ages of 5 and 17 and about the schooling status of these children.

The CLS sample was selected in two stages. In the first stage, 1,500 Primary Sampling Units (PSUs) were selected from the Master Sample using equal probability sampling. In the second stage, 22 households were selected from each of the selected PSUs. Because the Master Sample was developed shortly (only 2 months) before the CLS was fielded, there was no need to update the household lists of the sample PSUs used to select the household sample.

Mode of data collection
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Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument
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The questionnaire consists of three main modules:

(i) An Adult Questionnaire: The adult questionnaire was administered to the most knowledgeable person in the household and includes a household roster covering the basic demographic characteristics of all household members, and more detailed questions relating to the education experience of members ages 5 and older, and the employment characteristics in a short reference period of one week and a long reference period of one year. The adult questionnaire also inquires about the participation of children 5-17 in unpaid household services and parental attitudes about children's work.

(ii) A Household Characteristics Questionnaire: The household characteristics questionnaire is also administered to the most knowledgeable individual and includes questions about housing characteristics, access to services, ownership of durable goods, livestock and land. It also inquires about any shocks the household may have been exposed to in the past twelve months and the coping mechanisms the household adopted in the face of these shocks.

(iii) A Child Questionnaire: The Child Questionnaire was administered to children 5-17 themselves and includes questions relating to their schooling and vocational training experience as well as their employment experience in the past week and their participation in unpaid household services. The main topic addressed in the Child Questionnaire that has no direct counterpart in the Adult Questionnaire relates to the health and safety conditions of children's work, a subject that is crucial in distinguishing between children's permissible work and child labour.

摘要
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埃及儿童劳动调查（CLS）的总体目标是生成关于劳动力市场及儿童活动（包括教育、经济和非经济活动）的定量和定性数据。信息通过访谈家庭首脑和5至17岁的儿童获得。
CLS的具体目标包括：
- 收集关于埃及儿童劳动的特征、性质、规模和成因的信息，并确定工作条件和其对工作儿童的健康、教育和正常发展的影响。
- 加强CAPMAS收集针对埃及反儿童劳动行动计划的定量信息的能力。
- 建立一个关于儿童劳动的定量信息系统（数据库），该系统将根据新信息（通过额外的调查和行政记录）的可用性定期更新。
- 通过识别优先群体和模式，分析工作条件及其对儿童的影响，对埃及工作儿童状况进行全面分析，从而为制定消除儿童劳动的政策和行动计划提供输入。
- 向政府、雇主和工人组织、非政府组织和公众发布一份关于埃及儿童劳动的全面国家报告，概述统计发现和深入分析结果，从而提高推广涉及所有相关关键利益相关者的可持续、多学科反儿童劳动运动所需的知识和理解。
- 将埃及数据整合到国际劳工组织（ILO）的儿童劳动数据库中。
地理覆盖范围
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全国
分析单元
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- 家庭
- 个人
数据类型
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样本调查数据 [ssd]
抽样程序
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该调查基于一个设计好的样本，包含30,000户有5至17岁儿童的家庭。样本来自CAPMAS在2010年初开发的约100万户家庭的母本样本，其中包含有关哪些家庭有5至17岁的儿童以及这些儿童教育状况的信息。
CLS样本分为两个阶段进行选择。在第一阶段，从母本样本中使用了等概率抽样方法选择了1,500个初级抽样单位（PSU）。在第二阶段，从每个选定的PSU中选择了22户。由于母本样本是在CLS实施前不久（仅2个月）开发的，因此无需更新用于选择家庭样本的样本PSU的家庭名单。
数据收集方式
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面对面 [f2f]
研究工具
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问卷由三个主要模块组成：
(i) 成人问卷：成人问卷由家庭中最知情的成员填写，包括涵盖所有家庭成员基本人口统计特征的户清单，以及关于5岁及以上成员的教育经历以及在一周短期参考期和一年长期参考期内的就业特征的更详细问题。成人问卷还调查5至17岁儿童在无偿家务服务中的参与情况以及家长对孩子工作的态度。
(ii) 家庭特征问卷：家庭特征问卷也由最知情的个人填写，包括关于住房特征、服务获取、耐用消费品、牲畜和土地所有权的问题。它还调查家庭在过去十二个月中可能遭遇的任何冲击以及家庭在面对这些冲击时采取的应对机制。
(iii) 儿童问卷：儿童问卷由5至17岁的儿童本人填写，包括关于他们的教育和职业培训经历以及过去一周的就业经历和他们在无偿家务服务中的参与情况的问题。儿童问卷中讨论的主要主题是儿童工作健康和安全条件，这是一个在区分儿童允许的工作和童工中至关重要的主题。