Investigating the relationship between poverty, access to education, and hazardous child labor
Year: 2025
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Research examines how poverty, limited access to education, and hazardous child labor are interconnected. It examines how household income, parental education, and educational access influence children's involvement in labor and the intensity of child labor. The investigation is limited by its cross-sectional design, focusing only on data from a specific region, and the self-reported nature of some variables. These limitations may impact the generalizability of the findings. This research aims to discover and explore the relationship between poverty, education access, and hazardous child labor, identifying how economic hardship and limited education contribute to child labor and proposing interventions for reduction. Data was collected from 500 households, including variables, such as household income, access to education, parental education levels, hazardous child labor, and child labor intensity, representing households with varying income levels and educational access. The accompanying analysis was performed with SPSS 30. The findings of the investigation show that descriptive statistics were employed to summarize the collection distribution, even as multiple regression analysis identified the significant influence of household income, access to education, and parental education on hazardous child labor. Furthermore, pearson correlation analysis revealed a significant negative relationship between parental education and child work intensity, emphasizing the importance of education in minimizing hazardous child labor. In the findings section, the ANOVA test is used to compare statistical differences between factors, such as hazardous child labor, poverty, and educational access.
Authors: Sanjay Bhatnagar, Gunveen Ahluwalia, Hemanth S. Kumar, Sweta Kumari, Sangeeta Mishra, Hameem P. Khan
Language: English
Subfield: Safety Research
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4414814762