I. Overview of the training manual
II. Module 1
Understanding child labour and introduction to the baseline survey
1.1 Understanding the problem of child labour
1.1.1 Who is a child?
1.1.2 What causes child labour?
1.2 Introduction to the INDUS child labour projects
1.2.1 The approach of the project
1.2.2 Scope of the project
1.3 Introduction to the baseline survey
1.3.1 Need for the baseline survey
1.3.2 objectives of the survey
1.3.3 Struture of the survey
1.3.4 Importance of the correct timing of the survey
1.3.5 Entities involved in the survey
III. Module 2
Understanding the role of the field survey and field staff
2.1 Field supervisor
2.1.1 Who is a field supervisor?
2.1.2 What are the role and responsibilities of a field supervisor?
2.2 Field interviews
2.2.1 Who are field interviewers?
2.2.2 What are the role and responsibilty of field interviewers
2.2.3 Editing completed work
2.3 Interviewing techniques and conventions
2.3.1 General standards for conducting structured interviews
2.3.2 Behavioral ethics
2.3.3 Techniques for establishing contact and securing consent for the interview
IV. Module 3
understandng the questionnaire
3.1 The contents of the questionnaire
3.1.1 Main household listing schedule
3.1.2 Certain points to be remembered
3.1.3 Some anticipated problems
V. Module 4
Format of the reports
4.1 Background
4.1.1 Target audience
4.1.2 Report goals
4.2 Sructure of the report
4.3 Preface
4.4 Executive summary
4.5 chapter 1 Introduction
4.6 Chapter 2 Methodology
4.7 Chapter 3 Main findings
4.7.1 listing of all child workers in identified pockets
4.8 Conclusions and recommendations

This booklet is a manuat that provides practical procedures for conducting child labour survey. The goal of this manual is to produce a comprehensive document, which can be used by institutions and policy makers who are not primarily statisticians or good at interviewing and data collection protocol followers. This contains the Indus Project conducted baseline survey in 20 districts and lays this training module on the foundation of the same survey.

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