Table 2.

Working conditions of street children in six provinces of Iran (n = 856).

Variables	Category	Frequency	Percent
Type of street jobs in the month before the study (multiple responses permitted)	Vending	603	71.2
	Porter	72	8.5
	Busboy	45	5.3
	Weigh people on scales with payment (It is a kind of street job in which somebody provides a weighting scale and sits on the walkway and weighs people and earns a little money).	27	3.2
	Shoe Polishing	27	3.2
	Waste picking	136	16.1
	Dried bread picking	41	4.8
	Begging	27	3.2
	Cleaning car windscreens	17	2
	Pick pocketing	4	0.5
	Sex-worker	9	1.1
	Drug/alcohol distribution	13	1.5
	Vagrancy (without regular employment)	7	0.8
	Other	18	2.1
Most important reasons for working (multiple responses permitted)	Family support	729	85.8
	Personal needs	229	26.9
	Education cost	88	10.4
	Forced by family to work	76	8.9
	violence in the family	34	4
	Not interested in education	13	1.5
Has an employer	Yes	220	25.7
	No	604	70.6
	No answer	32	3.7
Hours worked in street per day	Up to 2 h	13	1.5
	2–5 h	173	20.2
	More than 5 h	646	75.5
	No answer	24	2.8
Who spends daily income earned by child	Family	441	51.5
	Family and child	282	32.9
	Employer and child	107	12.5
	Other	17	2
	No answer	9	1.1
Working in places other than streets	Yes	116	13.6
	No	704	82.2
	No answer	36	4.2
Agency that has arrested child in past three months (multiple responses permitted)	Municipality	266	31
	Police department	127	14.8
	State Welfare Organization	135	24.3
	Not arrested	459	53.6
	No answer	17	2