Although child labour is a phenomenon widely studied around the world, there are few papers that tackle the problem in Cameroon. The objective of this paper is to fill the gap by questioning the subject in Yaoundé, the capital city. But child labour phenomenon is analysed here from a questionnaire that has two distinctive features: (i) the questionnaire is exclusively devoted to child labour, and (ii) all the participants in the survey are exclusively children themselves. No adult (parent, guardian, elder, employer, etc.) was consulted and given a chance to answer on behalf of a child. This process is extremely rare in child labour, since in general individuals other than children are requested to testify and answer inslead of children. While some results obtained from a standard Logit model on the determinant of child labour are well known, the others are either not known or insignificant. We suspect that the reason is the data collection.Sažetak
Iako se problem iskorištavanja dječjeg rada proučava diljem svijeta, malobrojne su studije koje se bave tim problemom u Kamerunu. Cilj ovog članka je popuniti prazninu istraživanjem ove pojave u glavnom gradu – yaoundé. Istraživanje fenomena dječjeg rada prvenstveno se temeljio na: (i) upitniku koji je isključivo bio usredotočen na problem dječjeg rada, i (ii) na ispitivanju djece-radnika kao glavnim sudionicima u istraživanju. Ovo je jedinstven primjer, jer odrasli (roditelji, skrbnici, poslodavci i sl.) nisu bili uključeni u istraživanje, budući da su u prethodnim istraživanjima iskorištavanja dječjeg rada, ispitanici bili odrasli koji su u ime djece popunjavali upitnike. U usporedbi s primjenom standardnog Logit modela o određivanju dječjeg rada čiji rezultati su općepoznati, primjena drugih modela rezultira ili nepoznatim ili gotovo beznačajnim činjenicama, što navodi na sumnju o ispravnosti prikupljanja podataka
