Table 5 Factors associated with child labour (overall)
Variables | Overall child labour (n = 332) | P-value | AOR (CI) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Yes N (%) | No N (%) | ||||
Age category | 5–11 | 9 (100) | 0 (0) | < 0.001 | 1.20 (0.7–2.0) |
12–14 | 188 (76.7) | 57 (23.3) | |||
15–17 | 41 (52.6) | 37 (47.4) | |||
Sex | Male | 134 (75.3) | 44 (24.7) | 0.143 | 1.23 (0.7–2.0) |
Female | 104 (67.5) | 50 (32.5) | |||
Class | JSS 2 | 92 (82.1) | 20 (17.9) | 0.003 | 2.18 (1.2–4.0) |
JSS3 | 146 (66.4) | 74 (33.6) | |||
Socio-Economic Class (SEC) | Low SEC | 117 (73.1) | 43 (26.9) | 0.626 | N/A |
High SEC | 121 (70.3) | 51 (29.7) | |||
Custodians | Both parents | 146 (71.2) | 59 (28.8) | 0.807 | N/A |
Single parents | 26 (76.5) | 8 (23.5) | |||
Others | 66 (71.0) | 87 (89.0) | |||
Birth order | 1–4 | 184 (73.6) | 66 (26.4) | 0.204 | N/A |
5+ | 54 (65.9) | 28 (34.1) | |||
Family size | < 5 | 47 (70.1) | 20 (29.9) | 0.763 | N/A |
5 and above | 191 (72.1) | 74 (27.9) | |||
Number of working children | 1–4 | 170 (69.4) | 75 (30.6) | 0.204 | N/A |
5+ | 68 (78.2) | 19 (21.8) | |||
Age when started work | < 5 | 23 (74.2) | 8 (25.8) | 0.224 | N/A |
5–10 | 120 (75.5) | 39 (24.5) | |||
> 10 | 95 (66.9) | 47 (33.1) | |||
Weekly Income of student | < 1000 | 139 (64.7) | 76 (35.3) | < 0.001 | 0.32 (0.2–0.6) |
1000 and above | 99 (84.6) | 18 (15.4) | |||
Household type | Monogamous | 222 (72.3) | 85 (27.7) | 0.365 | N/A |
Polygamous | 16 (64.0) | 9 (36.0) | |||
Family structure | Nuclear | 209 (70.6) | 87 (29.4) | 0.211 | N/A |
Extended | 29 (80.6) | 7 (19.4) | |||