BANGLADESH:Report on the working children in metropolitan cities of Bangladesh (Establishment based child labour survey) (2002-03)

A report on the working children in metropolitan cities in Bangladesh based on the findings of the Establishment-based Child Labour Survey (ECLS) 2002-03 conducted by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics.

Labour Force Survey (LFS) is one of the regular core activities of the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) and child labour survey is an adhoc activity. For the collection of a wide spectrum of data on child labour the National Child Labour Survey (NCLS), 2002-03 was conducted by BBS and under its framework an Establishment-based Child Labour Survey (ECLS) was also simultaneously undertaken in all the six metropolitan cities of Bangladesh. This report is based on the findings of ECLS, 2002-03 and is intended to help policy planners and researchers interested in the elimination of child labour particularly the worst forms of child labour from Bangladesh.