THE EXPLOITATION STATUS OF WORKING SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN IN INDONESIA: A MULTILEVEL BINARY LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS
Abstract
Many children in Indonesia are exploited in the workforce. In 2022, 12.22 percent of school-age children worked more than 40 hours per week. Children are considered exploited if they work more than 20 hours a week. Children who work for a long time have serious impacts. This study aims to determine a general picture of the exploitation of working school-age children in Indonesia and its influence factors. This study uses the March 2023 Socioeconomic Survey (SUSENAS) data by utilizing multilevel analysis specifically the two-level binary logistic regression method. The study results showed that 54.22 percent of school-age children are working and exploited in Indonesia. The individual and regional contextual factors that are significantly associated with the exploitation status of working school-age children are age, sex, education level, education of household head, sex of household head, employment status of household head, Smart Indonesia Programme (PIP) ownership status, family size, expected years of schooling (HLS), and poverty level. This study finds that increasing age, male sex, lack of access to the PIP, low household head education, female-headed households, unemployed household heads, and larger household sizes increased the likelihood of child exploitation. Moreover, children residing in districts with lower HLS scores had a higher chance of being exploited. These findings highlight the importance of considering both individual and regional contextual factors when addressing child exploitation. A two-level binary logistic regression model with random effects provides a better fit than the intercept-only model. Therefore, it is recommended to prioritize interventions for children without access to the PIP and those from household heads with low education levels. Furthermore, programs emphasizing the importance of education for children should be strengthened.
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