The Balochistan Child Labour Survey (BCLS) 2023 provides unique information about the living conditions of children in the province as well as their daily activities, including schooling, working, and household chores.
The survey employed a two-stage stratified sampling strategy to ensure district-level representativeness across urban and rural areas. In the first stage, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) selected Primary Sampling Units (PSUs) within each Tehsil. In the second stage, following a listing exercise, 16 households were randomly selected within each PSU.
Sample sizes were allocated to districts based on child labour prevalence estimates from MICS Balochistan 2019-20, with lower-prevalence districts receiving larger samples consistent with the agreed relative margin of error. The survey has a sample of 23,026 households, is representative of children aged 5–17, and covers 33 districts of Balochistan for both rural and urban strata.
This executive summary is structured as follows:
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Information on the population of children is presented.
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Information on the activities of children is discussed, with a focus on child work and child labour.
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Potential causes and correlates of child labour are investigated.
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Consequences of child labour are outlined, including violence against children at their workplace.
Read the full report here: Balochistan Child Labour Survey 2023-2024
