PROJECT TITLE: CHILD LABOUR SURVEY AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF A DATABASE ON CHILD LABOUR IN ALBANIA

Project Status: Completed

Implementation period: 20.06.2013-28.02.2014

Funded by: US Department of Labour

Contribution amount: 120,000 Eur

Type of assistance: Technical Assistance

Beneficiary: INSTAT, Ministry of Labour

Implementing Agency: ILO, INSTAT

Statistical Domains: Living Conditions

Project objectives:

• To collect information on the character, nature, size, and reasons for child labour, and to determine the conditions of work and their effects on the health, education and normal development of the working child. Many child labour variables will be incorporated in the survey in order to learn about the different aspects of working children and their families, including:

- Demographic and socio-economic characteristics. Levels of education and training (enrolments and attendance), occupations and skill-levels, hours of work, earnings and other working and living conditions.

- Characteristics of the sectors where children are working. They are normally classified as public sector (further broken down into central government, local government, the provincial government, etc.) or private sector. While public sector establishments are formal, private sector establishments are either informal or formal.

 Project results:

• The annual National Account is improved by incorporation of and new data that were available to the mission.
• The quarterly National account measure is compiled by bringing the range of monthly and quarterly value, price and volume indicators for different components of the economy that were already available together in a national accounts framework.