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Table 1 Child and caregiver characteristics of the POFO sample

From: Child work and labour among orphaned and abandoned children in five low and middle income countries

	CHILD CHARACTERISTICS	(n = 1,473)
(categorical)
	Number	Percent	Missing
Gender			0
Male	772	52.4
Female	701	47.6
Age			0
6-7 years	384	26.1
8-10 years	754	51.2
11-12 years	335	22.7
Relation to caregiver			0
Biological child	813	55.2
Other relative	635	43.1
Non-relative	25	1.7
Health			19
Very good, good	928	63.8
Good	408	28.1
Poor, very poor	118	8.1
Work/Labour status			7
Any Work	890	60.7
No Work	576	39.3
Categorized hours worked			0
<21 hours per week	618	70.8
21-27 hours per week	100	11.5
28 + hours per week	155	17.8
UNICEF child labour*	191	21.9
Education
Yes	1361	94.0
No	86	5.9
CAREGIVER CHARACTERISTICS		(n = 1464)
(categorical)
	Number	Percent	Missing
Gender			4
Male	215	14.7
Female	1245	85.3
Age			61
<18 years	10	0.7
18-35 years	510	36.4
36-55 years	629	44.8
56 + years	254	18.1
Marital status			5
Married	385	26.4
Widowed	894	61.3
Never married & Other	180	12.3
Health			20
Very good, good	678	47.0
Fair	479	33.2
Poor, very poor	287	19.9
Earn an income			10
Yes	1033	71.1
No	421	29.0
(continuous)	Mean (sd)	Range
Age (in years)	42.5 (13.6)	11 to 89
Education (in years)	5.3 (4.3)	0 to 18
Children cared for (number)	2.8 (2.1)	0 to 19

* The UNICEF child labour variable includes = (work 28 or more hours per week) + (any youth <12 years of age working any number of hours for pay) + (any youth 12+ years of age or older working 14 or more hours per week for pay). The POFO dataset does not identify hazardous work, therefore potentially misses some children engaged in child labour.

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