Egypt National Child Labour Survey,NCLS 2010 - Egypt, Arab Rep.

Abstract --------------------------- The National Child Labour Survey (NCLS) for Egypt carried out in April/May 2010. The survey was carried out by CAPMAS with the financial and technical assistance of the ILO's International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) trough its Statistical Information and Monitoring Programme on Child Labour (SIMPOC). The Egypt NCLS was carried out on a design sample of 30,000 households with children aged 5 to 17, with 30,143 households successfully interviewed. 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 information is generated through interviews with heads of households and children aged 5-17. The overall objective of NCLS in Egypt is to generate quantitative and qualitative data on labour market and children’s activities, including schooling, economic and non-economic activities. The NCLS specifically aims at: a- 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. b- Strengthening CAPMAS capacity to collect quantitative information critical for planning actions against child labour in Egypt c- 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. d- 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. e- 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 sustainable, multi-disciplinary campaign against child labour involves all relevant key stakeholders. f- Integrating the Egyptian data into the ILO’s child labour database. Geographic coverage --------------------------- National Analysis unit --------------------------- 1- Households. 2- Child aged (5-17) years. Universe --------------------------- The survey covered a national sample of households and selected children aged (5-17) years Kind of data --------------------------- Sample survey data [ssd] Sampling procedure --------------------------- The 2010 Egypt CLS was based on a designed sample of 30,000 households with children between the ages of 5-17 years. The sample was disproportionally allocated over seven strata: 1- Urban Governorates; 2-Urban Lower Egypt; 3-Urban Upper Egypt; 4-Urban Frontier Governorates; 5-Rural Lower Egypt; 6-Rural Upper Egypt; and 7-Rural Frontier Governorates. A Master Sample developed by CAPMAS in early 2010 was used to select the CLS sample. In order to prepare the Master Sample, information was collected to allow for the explicit stratification of Primary Sampling Units (PSUs) according to the number of households with potential working children (i.e. those actually working plus those not attending school). PSUs with larger numbers of households with potential working children were over-sampled so as to facilitate the detection of a sizable number of working children by the survey. The CLS sample was selected in two stages. In the first stage, 1,500 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. The final sampling rate is composed of four components: 1- The sampling rate of the Master Sample, selected using Probability Proportional to Size (PPS); 2- The sampling rate of the first sampling stage of the CLS, selected using equal probability, 3- The sampling rate of the final (household) stage of the CLS, also selected using equal probability; and 4- The non-response adjustment rate. Mode of data collection --------------------------- Face-to-face [f2f] Research instrument --------------------------- The questionnaire of the NCLS was modelled after a questionnaire developed by ILO as part of its Statistical Information and Monitoring Program on Child Labour (SIMPOC), and consists of three main modules: (i) The Adult Questionnaire, (ii) The Household Characteristics Questionnaire, (iii) The Child 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. 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. 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. Number of questions relating to children’s education and employment are repeated in the adult and child questionnaires. This is done deliberately to control for differences in response, whether intentional or unintentional, between adults and children. Interviewers were instructed to interview children privately if possible, but this was not also the case. The analysis of children’s work, schooling, and engagement in unpaid household services relies primarily on information from the adult questionnaire, but where relevant we compare across child and adult responses to highlight possible differences. The main exception, as mentioned above, is with regards to children’s working conditions, where the information is obtained exclusively from the child questionnaire. Note: The questionnaire can be seen in the documentation materials tab.