Economic correlates of child labour in India

This paper is an attempt to examine the economic correlates of child labour. Child labour is recognized widely as a phenomena of developing countries. Developed countries are economically well off than third world countries. So we need to critically understand how the economic indicators apart from socio-cultural factors affect the presence of child labour. An earnest attempt has been made in this paper to get the whole picture of working children, type of their economic activities across different income level to establish the relationship between child labour and poverty. Regional variation of child labour across different income level has also been observed through cross tabulation. Dichotomous variables are used to get inference regarding the occurrence of child labour with reference to dependant variables through binary logistic regression.