1. RWANDA CHILD LABOUR SURVEY -2008
RCLS-2008
Organisation and methodology

2. RCLS - 2008 was implemented by :
National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda
With technical and financial assistance of:
International Labour Office (ILO) and UNICEF

3. RNCLS OBJECTIVES:
To collect information on characteristics, nature, extent and reasons influencing child labour in Rwanda and assess working conditions and impact on children health, education and normal development of children;
To create a database (quantitative and qualitative) on child labour, which can be regularly updated through additional surveys and other administrative documents;

4. RNCLS -2008 OBJECTIVES(Ctd) :
To carry out a comprehensive analysis of the conditions of children in employment in Rwanda by presenting the structure of activities, working conditions and their effects on children.

5. Scope and coverage of the survey The target population:
Children aged 5 to 17 years living in ordinary
households countrywide
Were not included:
Street children and children living in institutions
such as prisons, hospitals, orphanages or
welfare centres

6. Sampling The sample of RNCLS-2008 was representative :
At national level
At Provincial level ( 4 provinces and Kigali city).

7. Sampling (ctd…)
First stage : Enumeration areas constructed on the basis of the 2002 Rwanda General Census of Population and Housing served as sampling frame for the drawing of lots of a sample of 300 enumeration areas with the distribution of 10 enumeration areas per District.
Second stage : a household list was first updated in each EA selected at primary stage and then a 5510 households have been selected from the number of households that have children aged from 5 to 17 years, identified during households listing in each EA.

8. Pilote survey
The 3 days pilote survey was conducted by a technical team of 15 persons from differents parteners institutions.
The pilot survey allowed assessing field usage of the tool to be used in the main survey and reformulated some questions to make them more explicit.

9. Pilote survey
The 3 days pilote survey was conducted by a technical team of 15 persons from differents parteners institutions.
The pilot survey allowed assessing field usage of the tool to be used in the main survey and reformulated some questions to make them more explicit.

10. Pilote survey: objectives
To test the consistency of questionnaires for adults and children ;
To test the understanding of questionnaires by enumerators and interviewees;
To assess the time needed to fill each type of questionnaire;
To verify the field utilisation of the instructions given in the manual of enumerators;
To test the overall tool put in place for field data collection and entry.

11. Data collection 60 Enumerators 12 team leaders 5 Supervisors
Field workers were:
60 Enumerators
12 team leaders
5 Supervisors
The data collection exercise was conducted from 6th to 27th June 2008.

12. Response rate 5 510 Identified HH 5 085 Surveyed HH 92.3 %

13. Data Processing Cross checking of questionnaires Codification
Data entry with Cspro
Double entry
Data cleaning completed in september 2008

14. Types of questionnaires
Adult Questionnaire
HH caracteristics Questionnaire
Child Questionnaire

15. Questionnaire 1. Adults Questionnaire
Household composition and characteristics of household members
Education
Current economic activity
Usual economic activity
Household chores
Perception of parents vis-à-vis child labor

16. 2.Housing charactisitics questionnaire
Housing characteristics
The socio-economic household status

17. Questionnaire 3.Child Questionnaire Education
Current economic activity
Usual economic activity
Health and Safety at Work
Household chores

18. Mesured indicators Economic activities carried out by children
Situation of “inactive children”
School attendance
Household chores
Characteristics of children’s economic activity
Child labour
Child labour characteristics
Child labour and school attendance

19. Mesured indicators (ctd…)
Child labour, household chores and school attendance
Children’s employment and health

20. DIAGRAM OF PROCEDURE OF CHILD LABOUR STATISTICS IDENTIFICATION

21. Challenges
Following administrative restructuring, the geographic boundaries of administrative entities were modified. The restructuring in question gave rise to changes in localisation and the coding system of the EA which had been defined by the 2002 Rwanda General Census of Population and Housing. Given that the sampling frame of the 2008-RNCLS was constituted using the 2002 Census, the creation of the relationship between former codes and new codes was carried out with many difficulties and required more time than anticipated.

22. Challenges
identification of urban and rural areas with the new coding was not possible in the database.
The majority of children aged less than 7 years are not enrolled in school especially because the legal age for admission in primary school one is 7 years. Therefore, most of those children are shy since they are not accustomed to communicate with people they do not know. During the 2008-RNCLS, children in that age group hardly responded to the questions.
The NISR staff in charge of labour statistics don’t have experience in conducting labour related surveys.

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