Costa Rica - Economically active children

Children in employment, unpaid family workers, female (% of female children in employment, ages 7-14)

Definition: Unpaid family workers are people who work without pay in a market-oriented establishment operated by a related person living in the same household.

Source: Understanding Children's Work project based on data from ILO, UNICEF and the World Bank.

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Year Value
2011 85.10
2016 54.59

Children in employment, unpaid family workers, male (% of male children in employment, ages 7-14)

Definition: Unpaid family workers are people who work without pay in a market-oriented establishment operated by a related person living in the same household.

Source: Understanding Children's Work project based on data from ILO, UNICEF and the World Bank.

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Year Value
2011 72.30
2016 71.76

Children in employment, unpaid family workers (% of children in employment, ages 7-14)

Definition: Unpaid family workers are people who work without pay in a market-oriented establishment operated by a related person living in the same household.

Source: Understanding Children's Work project based on data from ILO, UNICEF and the World Bank.

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Year Value
2011 76.30
2016 67.84

Children in employment, self-employed, female (% of female children in employment, ages 7-14)

Definition: Self-employed workers are people whose remuneration depends directly on the profits derived from the goods and services they produce, with or without other employees, and include employers, own-account workers, and members of producers cooperatives.

Source: Understanding Children's Work project based on data from ILO, UNICEF and the World Bank.

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Year Value
2011 8.30
2016 0.00

Children in employment, self-employed, male (% of male children in employment, ages 7-14)

Definition: Self-employed workers are people whose remuneration depends directly on the profits derived from the goods and services they produce, with or without other employees, and include employers, own-account workers, and members of producers cooperatives.

Source: Understanding Children's Work project based on data from ILO, UNICEF and the World Bank.

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Year Value
2011 6.10
2016 5.54

Children in employment, self-employed (% of children in employment, ages 7-14)

Definition: Self-employed workers are people whose remuneration depends directly on the profits derived from the goods and services they produce, with or without other employees, and include employers, own-account workers, and members of producers cooperatives.

Source: Understanding Children's Work project based on data from ILO, UNICEF and the World Bank.

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Year Value
2011 6.80
2016 4.28

Children in employment, female (% of female children ages 7-14)

Definition: Children in employment refer to children involved in economic activity for at least one hour in the reference week of the survey.

Source: Understanding Children's Work project based on data from ILO, UNICEF and the World Bank.

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Year Value
2004 3.50
2011 1.60
2016 0.63

Children in employment, male (% of male children ages 7-14)

Definition: Children in employment refer to children involved in economic activity for at least one hour in the reference week of the survey.

Source: Understanding Children's Work project based on data from ILO, UNICEF and the World Bank.

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Year Value
2004 8.10
2011 3.40
2016 1.94

Children in employment, study and work, female (% of female children in employment, ages 7-14)

Definition: Children in employment refer to children involved in economic activity for at least one hour in the reference week of the survey. Study and work refer to children attending school in combination with economic activity.

Source: Understanding Children's Work project based on data from ILO, UNICEF and the World Bank.

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Year Value
2011 90.22
2016 86.79

Children in employment, study and work, male (% of male children in employment, ages 7-14)

Definition: Children in employment refer to children involved in economic activity for at least one hour in the reference week of the survey. Study and work refer to children attending school in combination with economic activity.

Source: Understanding Children's Work project based on data from ILO, UNICEF and the World Bank.

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Year Value
2011 76.85
2016 84.80

Children in employment, study and work (% of children in employment, ages 7-14)

Definition: Children in employment refer to children involved in economic activity for at least one hour in the reference week of the survey. Study and work refer to children attending school in combination with economic activity.

Source: Understanding Children's Work project based on data from ILO, UNICEF and the World Bank.

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Year Value
2004 55.40
2011 80.98
2016 85.26

Children in employment, work only, female (% of female children in employment, ages 7-14)

Definition: Children in employment refer to children involved in economic activity for at least one hour in the reference week of the survey. Work only refers to children involved in economic activity and not attending school.

Source: Understanding Children's Work project based on data from ILO, UNICEF and the World Bank.

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Year Value
2011 9.78
2016 13.21

Children in employment, work only, male (% of male children in employment, ages 7-14)

Definition: Children in employment refer to children involved in economic activity for at least one hour in the reference week of the survey. Work only refers to children involved in economic activity and not attending school.

Source: Understanding Children's Work project based on data from ILO, UNICEF and the World Bank.

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Year Value
2011 23.15
2016 15.19

Children in employment, work only (% of children in employment, ages 7-14)

Definition: Children in employment refer to children involved in economic activity for at least one hour in the reference week of the survey. Work only refers to children involved in economic activity and not attending school.

Source: Understanding Children's Work project based on data from ILO, UNICEF and the World Bank.

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Year Value
2004 44.60
2011 19.02
2016 14.70

Children in employment, total (% of children ages 7-14)

Definition: Children in employment refer to children involved in economic activity for at least one hour in the reference week of the survey.

Source: Understanding Children's Work project based on data from ILO, UNICEF and the World Bank.

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Year Value
2004 5.70
2011 2.50
2016 1.31

Children in employment, wage workers, female (% of female children in employment, ages 7-14)

Definition: Wage workers (also known as employees) are people who hold explicit (written or oral) or implicit employment contracts that provide basic remuneration that does not depend directly on the revenue of the unit for which they work.

Source: Understanding Children's Work project based on data from ILO, UNICEF and the World Bank.

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Year Value
2011 6.60
2016 45.40

Children in employment, wage workers, male (% of male children in employment, ages 7-14)

Definition: Wage workers (also known as employees) are people who hold explicit (written or oral) or implicit employment contracts that provide basic remuneration that does not depend directly on the revenue of the unit for which they work.

Source: Understanding Children's Work project based on data from ILO, UNICEF and the World Bank.

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Year Value
2011 21.60
2016 22.70

Children in employment, wage workers (% of children in employment, ages 7-14)

Definition: Wage workers (also known as employees) are people who hold explicit (written or oral) or implicit employment contracts that provide basic remuneration that does not depend directly on the revenue of the unit for which they work.

Source: Understanding Children's Work project based on data from ILO, UNICEF and the World Bank.

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Year Value
2011 16.90
2016 27.88

Classification

Topic: Labor & Social Protection Indicators

Sub-Topic: Economic activity