Household poverty and child labour in Kyela District Tanzania
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2006
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Sokoine University of Agriculture
Abstract
This study was done in six rural villages of Matema and Ipinda wards, Ntebela division of
Kyela District, Tanzania to study the causes of child labour in rural areas of the district and
the factors which perpetuate the problem. The study design was cross-sectional whereby
120 children and 36 households were purposely sampled in equal numbers from each
village, and data were collected using structured questionnaire, check list of questions and
focus group discussions. Children of the age 5 to 14 years were studied. Computer
software of Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was employed to code, enter
and analyse the data. The study found that the factors influencing child labour in the area
are household poverty indicated mainly by low household income as the main cause; many
economic activities per household leading to bad/wrong time of working, long duration in
hours of work per day and improper socialisation of children; adults and children migration
in search of employment; marriage instability and breakage; children orphanage; children
personal needs; allurement of children by casual daily or seasonal wage employers; low
education level of the household head and lastly children not being interested in schooling.
The null hypothesis was adopted since the chi-square test (single tailed test) show that
p=0.0755 (p>0.05) at 5% significance level. In conclusion the study has dwelt on and
revealed that many agricultural and non-agricultural household activities which are done to
reduce poverty in the rural villages have side effects on the high participation of the
children of the same households as child labourers. Therefore it is mainly recommended
that the government should help people in rural areas to reduce household poverty and in
turn the households will reduce and eliminate child labour.
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The Degree of Master of Arts in Rural Development