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  • Average weekly working hours of children
  • Child labor
  • Child labor in Italy
  • Child labor in the United States
  • Children in employment vs. hours worked by children
  • Global incidence of child labor
  • Global incidence of child labor by age groups
  • Global share of children aged 10-14 in the labor force
  • Incidence of child labor in the United States
  • Level of national compliance with labor rights
  • Percentage of children (aged 7-14) in employment by sex
  • Share of children aged 5-17 years engaged in labor
  • Share of children aged 5–17 years engaged in laborScatterplot by gender
  • Share of children in employment
  • Share of children in employment vs. GDP per capita
  • Share of working children who do not attend school
  • Various measures of child labor incidence
  • Weekly hours worked by children vs. GDP per capita
  • Working children out of school vs. hours worked by children

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