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DETERMINANTS OF SCHOOL PARTICIPATION CHILD LABOUR AND ITS EFFECT ON SOCIO-ECONOMIC ACTIVITY IN GURAGE ZONE: THE CASE OF WOLKITE TOWN
(WOLKITE UNIVERSITY, 2021-08) KIBEBU HABTEGEBRIEL DERERI
Child labour participation is a global phenomenon focusses all kinds of working conditions which endanger health, education, physical and social development of child. This study investigated the determinants ofschool participation child labour and its effects on socio economic activity in the case of Wolkite town. To achieve the objectives, data were collected from 393 sample child laborer using stratified sampling with structured questioner method. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics such as percentage, mean, standard deviation, and as econometrics method binary logistic was used. The results showed that working condition of child laborers affects students’ school attendance as they work for 11 hours. The findings of the study indicate that children parents who have enough source of income get more human needs than children’s’ parents who have no source of income. Regarding to parents life status the result has shown that childrens’ parent life status were positively effect on child labor participation. This is due the fact that children’s’ children’s’ who have no parents are enforced to work and they face a variety of socio-economic problems. Children were low source of family income, failure of interest in attending school and as result they migrate to study area to examine a job without permission of their parents. There is a need to develop and exercise policy direction in overcoming the socio-economic problems of children engaged in child labor especially for those from poor families.