Global: Percentage of children (aged 5-17 years) engaged in child labour (economic activities and household chores)

In accordance with the ICLS resolutions,14 child labour can be measured on the basis of the production boundary set by the United Nations System of National Accounts (SNA) or on the basis of the general production boundary. The former limits the frame of reference to economic activity, while the latter extends it to include both economic activity and unpaid household services, that is, the production of domestic and personal services by a household member for consumption within their own household, commonly called household chores. Following from this, two indicators are used for measuring child labour for the purpose of SDG reporting, the first based on the SNA production boundary and the second on the general production boundary. Indicator 1: Proportion and number of children aged 5 to 17 years engaged in economic activities at or above age-specific hourly thresholds (SNA production bo Publisher: UNICEF Data and Analytics (HQ) (via Humanitarian Data Exchange (UN OCHA)). Delivered as a cleaned, analysis-ready CSV table.

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