Table 4.

Adjusted child workers worldwide, boys and girls aged 5-9 and 10-14 years

Sex/age group	ILO estimate of children at work1	Intermittency multipliers from metropolitan Brazil2		Intermittency-adjusted estimates of children at work
	(thousands)	1982-84	1996-98	(thousands)
Boys aged 5-9 years	38 100	1.71	1.90	65 269	72 432
Boys aged 10-14 years	70 900	1.71	1.90	121 459	134 787
Girls aged 5-9 years	35 000	1.74	1.98	60 877	69 441
Girls aged 10-14 years	66 800	1.74	1.98	116 187	132 534
Total 5-9 years	73 100			126 146	141 873
Total 10-14 years	137 700			237 646	267 321
Total 5-14 years	210 800			363 792	409 194

¹ILO (2002), table 1, page 17.

²The multiplier for the 10-14 age group was applied to the 5-9 age group, since the PME does not consider children aged 5-9 years.