Table 2 Participation in the last 7 days in various activities

From: The impact of minimum age of employment regulation on child labor and schooling^*

*Restricted to Ages 8-14*
		*Survey Round*		*Region*
	Full Sample	MICS2	MICS3	Sub-Saharan Africa	Rest of World
Population in Millions	156	72	84	72	85
Paid Employment	2.95	3.08	2.85	3.60	2.42
Unpaid Economic Activity	26.23	26.78	25.76	37.20	17.05
Economically Active	27.98	28.61	27.45	38.82	18.91
Unpaid Household Services	74.91	76.78	73.35	78.60	71.84
Household Based Activity	78.38	80.23	76.84	82.06	75.31
Any Type of Work	79.54	80.81	78.48	83.46	76.27
Attends School in Last Year	81.49	80.83	82.05	71.66	89.69
No School nor Any Type of Work	3.58	3.16	3.93	5.44	2.05

Authors' calculations from publically available MICS 2 & 3 data. See Table 1 for list of countries. Data weighted to be nationally representative and to reflect size of country's population.

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