Wednesday, 20 April 2011

uganda child labour stats based on, based on demographic and health surveyhttp://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&sqi=2&ved=0CC0QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ilo.org%2Fipecinfo%2Fproduct%2Fdownload.do%3Ftype%3Ddocument%26id%3D739&rct=j&q=child%20labour%20uganda&ei=4NiuTbygIcmi8QOpuLzhBA&usg=AFQjCNHSs-Yz7lQquW1FQAPM523Ju1F3Mw y 200-01 (

it is estimated that there are about 2.7 million working children in uganda, giving an overall participation rate of 34.2% . more than half of the working children are aged 10-14 . notable is also the fact that 1 third of these children are less than 10 years old, the number of working children aged 5-17 years attending primary school were estimated to be about 1.9 million.  more than 300.000 children in this age group had recieved no formal education. the eastern region of uganda is reported to have the highest population of children workers. page 10 of report.

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