Codes and Frequencies
Description
CHLHHWORKCHEM indicates whether the child household member selected for the child labor module (CHLHHINDEX) recently did work requiring exposure to dangerous chemicals or explosives.
This variable comes from a series of questions about possible hazardous conditions in children's work. If a "Yes" response was given for one of these hazardous conditions, questions about other hazards were not asked. Accordingly, the sum of all cases with "Yes" responses to any hazard identifies the total number of working children exposed to any (specified) hazard. This approach avoids double-counting working children but means one cannot identify multiple hazards in children's employment. For example, if a child is initially identified as carrying heavy loads, one cannot learn whether he or she is also exposed to dangerous chemicals.
The information in CHLHHWORKCHEM is taken from the household record and applies to regular household residents, not temporary visitors. Researchers may wish to exclude visitors using the RESIDENT variable (with visitors coded "2") when women, children, or births are the unit of analysis, and using the HHRESIDENT variable when household members are the unit of analysis.
Universe
- Angola 2015: Women age 15-49 in households with a child age 5-17 and in which the child performed some type of paid or unpaid work or business in the past week.
- Benin 2017: Women age 15-49 households with a child age 5-17 selected for the child labor module and in which the child performed some type of agricultural, business, artisanal, sales, or other work in the past week, and whose work did not require carrying heavy loads, using dangerous tools or machinery, exposure to dust, smoke, or gas, to exteme temperatures or humidity, to loud noise or vibration, or to heights.
- Burundi 2016: Women age 15-49 in households with a child age 5-17 selected for the child labor module and in which the child performed some type of agricultural, business, artisanal, sales, or other work in the past week and whose work did not entail carrying heavy loads, using unsafe tools, or exposure to dust, smoke, gas, extreme temperatures, loud noise, vibration, or heights.
- Chad 2014: Women age 15-49 in households with a resident child age 5-17 selected for the child labor module and in which the child performed some type of agricultural, business, artisanal, sales, or other work in the past week and whose work did not entail carrying heavy loads, using unsafe tools, or exposure to dust, smoke, gas, extreme temperatures, loud noise, vibration, or heights, in households not selected for the men's survey.
- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2013: Women age 15-49 in households with a child age 5-17 selected for the child labor module and in which the child performed some type of agricultural, business, artisanal, sales, or other work in the past week and whose work did not entail carrying heavy loads, using unsafe tools, or exposure to dust, smoke, gas, extreme temperatures, loud noise, vibration, or heights, in households not selected for the men's survey.
- Egypt 2014: Ever-married women age 15-49 in households with a child age 5-17 selected for the child labor module and in which the child's work did not entail carrying heavy loads, using unsafe tools, or exposure to dust, smoke, gas, extreme temperatures, loud noise, vibration, or heights.
- Liberia 2019: Women age 15-49 in households with a child age 5-17 selected for the child labor module and in which the child performed some type of agricultural, business, artisanal, sales, or other work in the past week and whose work did not entail carrying heavy loads, using unsafe tools, or exposure to dust, smoke, gas, extreme temperatures, loud noise, vibration, or heights.
- Senegal 2014: Women age 15-49 in households with a child age 5-17 and in which the child performed some type of agricultural, business, artisanal, sales, or other work in the past week and whose work did not entail carrying heavy loads, using unsafe tools, or exposure to dust, smoke, gas, extreme temperatures, loud noise, vibration, or heights.
- Senegal 2015: Women age 15-49 in households with a resident child age 5-17 and in which the child performed some type of agricultural, business, artisanal, sales, or other work in the past week and whose work did not entail carrying heavy loads, using unsafe tools, or exposure to dust, smoke, gas, extreme temperatures, loud noise, vibration, or heights.
- Senegal 2016: Women age 15-49 in households with a resident child age 5-17 and in which the child performed some type of agricultural, business, artisanal, sales, or other work in the past week and whose work did not entail carrying heavy loads, using unsafe tools, or exposure to dust, smoke, gas, extreme temperatures, loud noise, vibration, or heights.
- Togo 2013: Women age 15-49 in households with a child age 5-17 selected for the child labor module and in which the child performed some type of agricultural, business, artisanal, sales, or other work in the past week and whose work did not entail carrying heavy loads, using unsafe tools, or exposure to dust, smoke, gas, extreme temperatures, loud noise, vibration, or heights.
