Sociedad & Tecnología (Jul 2022)

Child labour and education in Ecuador during the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Jack Iván Vidal Chica,
  • Efstathios Stefos,
  • Raquel Gilar Corbi,
  • Panagiotis Stefos

DOI
https://doi.org/10.51247/st.v5i3.254
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 3

Abstract

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Child labour is a worldwide issue with a major impact on access to education, Latin America being one of the regions heavily affected by this type of illegal activity, the data were not very encouraging and with the COVID19 pandemic the situation worsened. This study uses data, of 117,189 girls and boys between the ages of 5 and 14, obtained from National Survey of Employment, Unemployment and Underemployment (ENEMDU), with the aim to analyse education and child labour situation in Ecuador through pandemic in 2020, a complete descriptive analysis was developed in order to display the main differentiation criteria and the classification into groups of the people investigated, the results are confirmed by factor analysis.

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