Child Labour and School Attendance in Ghana
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2013-07
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University of Ghana
Abstract
This study examines the effect of child labour on school attendance in Ghana. It
particularly tests the significance of children’s work and their schooling outcome. The
2006 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey dataset on children aged 12-14 years with
descriptive analysis, cross tabulation and binary logistic regression models were employed
for the analysis.
The results show that children labour whether economic or domestic has a substantial
effect on children’s school attendance after other socio-economic and demographic factors
have been controlled for. By comparison, children’s economic child labour showed a
stronger effect on school attendance likelihood than domestic child labour.
The demographic and socio-economic variables of respondents were tested to see their
effect on school attendance of children. Although the test for all these variables did not
show any significance at the multivariate level yet they displayed a clear pattern prevailing
in the literature. Factors that influence the relationship between child labour and school
attendance include age and sex of the child as well as some characteristics of the
household and its location.
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Thesis (MA)-University of Ghana, 2013