electricsheepasia/asia-ilo-sdg-a871-sex-age-rt-sdg-indicator-8-7-1-proportion-of-children-engaged

SDG indicator 8.7.1 - Proportion of children engaged in economic activity by sex and age ( | Asia (ILOSTAT)

🌏 633 observations · 32 Asia countries · 2008–2025 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Asia

TL;DR

This dataset contains 633 observations of Child labour data across 32 Asia countries, spanning 2008–2025, covering 1 distinct indicators.

About the source

ILOSTAT is the ILO's central statistics database, the leading global source for labour statistics. It compiles indicators across employment, unemployment, wages, working time, child labour, informal economy, social protection, occupational injuries, and SDG decent work targets — drawing on national labour force surveys, household income surveys, establishment surveys, and administrative records. Coverage spans 200+ economies, with the ILO's Department of Statistics responsible for harmonisation.

• Source: ILOSTAT
• Publisher: International Labour Organization (ILO)
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Child labour

Methodology

Data pulled directly from the ILOSTAT REST API at https://rplumber.ilo.org/data/indicator?id=SDG_A871_SEX_AGE_RT and filtered to Asia ISO3 country codes. ILOSTAT harmonises raw survey microdata using ICLS (International Conference of Labour Statisticians) definitions; sources are flagged in the source.label column for traceability.

Geographic coverage

32 Asia countries · top rows shown below, sorted by row count:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
IRN	90	2008	2024
IND	56	2021	2025
PAK	54	2009	2021
BGD	36	2013	2022
MNG	36	2011	2022
VNM	36	2012	2021
THA	30	2014	2023
KHM	30	2012	2023
LAO	24	2017	2022
PHL	24	2019	2022
YEM	24	2010	2023
TLS	24	2016	2022
AFG	24	2014	2023
NPL	18	2008	2017
JOR	17	2016	2023
...	17 more countries

Indicators (sample)

• SDG_A871_SEX_AGE_RT — SDG indicator 8.7.1 - Proportion of children engaged in economic activity by sex and age (%)

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
ref_area	string	ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code	AFG
ref_area.label	string	Country name in English	Afghanistan
source	string	ILOSTAT source code (e.g. labour force survey)	BX:16719
source.label	string	Source name in English	HS - Multiple Indicator Cluster Surve…
indicator	string	ILOSTAT indicator code	SDG_A871_SEX_AGE_RT
indicator.label	string	Indicator name in English	SDG indicator 8.7.1 - Proportion of c…
sex	string	Disaggregation by sex (SEX_T = total, SEX_M = male, SEX_F = female)	SEX_T
sex.label	string	—	Total
classif1	string	First classification variable (age, education, status, etc.)	AGE_CLDVERSION_Y05-17
classif1.label	string	—	Age: '5-17
time	int64	Observation year	2023
obs_value	float64	Observed indicator value (unit varies — see indicator definition)	16.157
obs_status	string	Observation status flag (e.g. provisional, unreliable)	U
obs_status.label	string	—	Unreliable
note_indicator	string	—	I11:264
note_indicator.label	string	—	Break in series: Methodology revised
note_source	string	—	R1:3513
note_source.label	string	—	Repository: ILO-STATISTICS - Micro da…

Disaggregation dimensions

The following columns provide disaggregation dimensions:

• sex (3 unique values): SEX_T, SEX_M, SEX_F

Data quality & caveats

• Data is annual frequency. Some indicators also publish monthly or quarterly series — those are not included here.
• When an indicator has multiple sources for the same country×year, the ILO-selected 'best source' is used.
• Disaggregation columns (sex, classif1, classif2) are non-null only when the indicator publishes that breakdown.

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepasia/asia-ilo-sdg-a871-sex-age-rt-sdg-indicator-8-7-1-proportion-of-children-engaged")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

indonesia = df[df["ref_area"] == "IDN"]

Time-series for a single indicator

sample = (df[df["indicator"] == "SDG_A871_SEX_AGE_RT"]
          .sort_values("time"))
sample.plot(x="time", y="obs_value", title="SDG_A871_SEX_AGE_RT")

Pivot to country × year matrix

matrix = (df[df["indicator"] == "SDG_A871_SEX_AGE_RT"]
          .pivot_table(index="time", columns="ref_area", values="obs_value"))
print(matrix.tail())

Citation

@misc{asia_ilo_sdg_a871_sex_age_rt_sdg_indicator_8_7_1_proportion_of_children_engaged_2025,
  title        = {SDG indicator 8.7.1 - Proportion of children engaged in economic activity by sex and age ( | Asia (ILOSTAT)},
  author       = {International Labour Organization (ILO)},
  year         = {2025},
  url          = {https://www.ilo.org/shinyapps/bulkexplorer/?id=SDG_A871_SEX_AGE_RT},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Asia},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepasia/asia-ilo-sdg-a871-sex-age-rt-sdg-indicator-8-7-1-proportion-of-children-engaged}}
}

License

Released under cc-by-4.0.

Original data © International Labour Organization (ILO). When using this dataset, please cite both the original source above and the Electric Sheep Asia repackaging.

About Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep Asia is part of the Electric Sheep mission: a unified, ML-ready data layer for Asia on HuggingFace. We pull data from authoritative open sources, normalize the schemas, package as Parquet, and publish with consistent dataset cards so researchers and developers can use load_dataset() to start working in seconds.

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Provenance: ingested 2026-05-25 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://www.ilo.org/shinyapps/bulkexplorer/?id=SDG_A871_SEX_AGE_RT