Abstract

The study was carried out at Damot Gale district of Wolaita zone in Southern nation nationalities regional state with the main objectives to describe factors of child labor in the study area In order to attain this objective the study made use of cross-sectional household survey data collected from 94 sample households The data collected were analyzed and discussed by using descriptive statistics and binary logit regression model To this end identifying children s who were in child labor and those who were not in child labor descriptive result shows that from different age category a total of 69 73 of the children s were engaged in different activity and the remaining 25 27 responded as not working Most children started working below the age of 8 and major sectors of work were unpaid family work such as agriculture 58 M 7 24 F and Home service 7 3 F 22 M The result of the logistic regression model revealed that out of 8 variables included in the model 4 explanatory variables were found to be significant at 1percent 5percent and 10 percent level Accordingly family size and loss of parents were found to have positive association with child labor and statistically significant up less than 1 and 10 respectively Meanwhile occupation status of the parents and education level of were found out to have strong negative association with child labor and statistically significant up to less than 1 percent level of significance