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Child Labor
American International University- Bangladesh

Child labor in Informal Job Sector in
Bangladesh

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Section: J
Semester: Fall 2010-11
Department of BBA

Submitted By:

Mostaq, Fahim 10-15442-1

Submitted To:

Buddha Dev Biswas Faculty of Arts and Social Science Department of Social Science

Letter of Authorization

December, 2010
To
Buddha Dev Biswas
Course Teacher
Basics in Social Science.
American International University- Bangladesh
Banani, Dhaka.

Subject: Submission of research report.

Dear Sir,
This is to humbly inform you that we are the students of BBA in your class in American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB). First we thank our honorable course teacher Buddha Dev Biswas who gives us chance to prepare a research report in ‘Child labor in informal job sector '.

We therefore pray and hope that you would be kind enough to grant us to consider our research report.

Regards
Paul, Sumit
Prithi, Sarzana Afrin
Saha, Sajib
Mostaq, Fahim

Executive Summary

Objectives:

The research is focused on:

o Present situation of child labor

o Family and status of child laborers

o Housing condition of child laborers

o Education of child laborers

o Types of job they perform

o Income, savings job satisfaction

o Health problem of child laborers

o Life style and non economic activity of child laborers

Research Methods:

In our research we have selected the children of Khilkhet. We sampled 25 child laborers who are engaged in informal job sector. From those 25 children we have tried to generalize the whole condition of child labor. We made a form of data collection. We involved a questionnaire to obtain information from the respondent.
We prepared closed ended questions for



Bibliography: By Shahina Amin, M. Shakil Quayes, Janet M. Rives, 2004 • Sociology, chapter-2 (sociological research) – Richard T

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