SRC-036 · Complete metadata
Report on employment relationship survey in the brick industry in Nepal
Central Bureau of Statistics, International Labour Organization, and UNICEF · 2021
Record details
- Study population
- Brick-kiln manual workers, working family members, and children living in brick kilns
- Geography
- Nepal, all seven provinces
- Sample size
- 301 brick kilns; 4,210 units/households sampled
- Method
- Survey / quantitative: Employment relationship survey
- Labour system
- Child labour, Brick industry
- Themes
- Legal abolition & policy, Forced labour & debt, Child labour & education
Recorded findings
- Among 176,373 manual workers including family members, 6,229 were in forced labour and 1,035 were in bonded labour.
- Among 34,593 children aged 5-17 living in brick kilns, 17,032 were identified as being in child labour.
Repository note
States that no official statistics previously existed on forced labour, bonded labour, and child labour in the brick production sector.
Citation
Central Bureau of Statistics, International Labour Organization, & UNICEF. (2021, January 29). Report on employment relationship survey in the brick industry in Nepal.