Child labor and school desertion in Perú by 2015

Abstract

The research has the objective to analyze child labor and school dropout base don information from the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics Perú 2015. It was a retrospective descriptive correlational study, wth data obtained from the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI), the sample consisted of children between 5 to 9 years of age, making a total of 717 surveyeds , the descriptive data were analyzed in the statistical program SPSS versión 24, and for associations the EViews program was used and the Maxium Likelihood test of the Maxium Likelihood test of the Bivariate Probit model with a p ≤ 0,05 was used. The results showed that the children who carried out work activities were 54,4 % (257) of male sex and 47,6 % (233) of female sex, the majority 84.5% (414) belonged to the rural área and 15,5 % (76) urban área, most reside 58,2% (285) resided in the Sierra región, in ítems of school dropout of the total number of children 95 % (681) reported that they regularly study the school, while 5% (36) stopped attending, a direct relationship was found between child labor and school dropout, with a correlation coefficient (0,2315), between attending school and working with a probability of ocurrence of 20,42 %. It is concluded that child labor is predominant in rural áreas and residents of the mountain región, so there is also a statistical association between child labor and school dropout.