Trabajo infantil y deserción escolar en el Perú al 2015

Abstract

The research has the objective to analyze child labor and school dropout base don information from the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics Peru 2015. It was a retrospective descriptive correlational study, wth data obtained from the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI), the sample consisted of children between 5 to 9 years of age, making a total of 717 surveyeds , the descriptive data were analyzed in the statistical program SPSS version 24, and for associations the EViews program was used and the Maxium Likelihood test of the Maxium Likelihood test of the Bivariate Probit model with a p ≤ 0,05 was used. The results showed that the children who carried out work activities were 54,4 % (257) of male sex and 47,6 % (233) of female sex, the majority 84.5% (414) belonged to the rural area and 15,5 % (76) urban area, most reside 58,2% (285) resided in the Sierra region, in items of school dropout of the total number of children 95 % (681) reported that they regularly study the school, while 5% (36) stopped attending, a direct relationship was found between child labor and school dropout, with a correlation coefficient (0,2315), between attending school and working with a probability of ocurrence of 20,42 %. It is concluded that child labor is predominant in rural areas and residents of the mountain region, so there is also a statistical association between child labor and school dropout.