The interaction between child labour and household income: A statistical survey in the industry of Turkey *

The aim of this study is to find the extent of the income of child labour, and its contribution to the family income. In order to reach demographic and economic features of child labour a statistical survey study has been applied to 100 children working in the industrial sector. The results have been put and analyzed in different tests in SPSS 16.0 program. In this study, different results could be reached about the working conditions, the social and economic environment and future expectations of child labour. An important result was the contribution of child labour to the household income. In addition, children who are working are not able to get a sufficient education. A significant factor affecting children to be working at that age, is the level of family education and income. Another data point is the low level of child labour income, which doesn’t change in time frequently. © 2014 European Journal of Research on Education by IASSR.