Trabajo infantil

One of each ten minors works in El Salvador. SAN SALVADOR (EFE). - The Government of El Salvador assures that in this Central American country one of each ten minor ones, that is equivalent to188.884 children and children, he carried out some activity labor in 2009, in an official study that emphasized one “slight” reduction of the infantile population worker. “The 10 percent of the Salvadoraninfantile population works”, today explained to Efe the head of the Main directorate of Statistic and Censuses of El Salvador (Digestyc), Miguel Corleto, on the document “Measuring the Infantile Workin the Survey of Homes of Propósitos Múltiples (EHPM) 2009”. It indicated that this constitutes a “average” of the population between 5 and 17 years, after assuring that that percentage variesaccording to the age. It affirmed that a one percent of the children of 5 to 9 years (6.747) works, the 10.5 percent (78.745) with between 10 as opposed to and 14 years, whereas in those of 15 to 17 years,the percentage ascends to 23.8 percents, which is equivalent to 103,392 minor ones. Worker emphasized one “slight loss” of the 0.9 percent of the infantile population, who passed of 190,525 children andchildren in 2008 to 188,884 in 2009. It detailed that, between 2007 and 2008, 190.000 the infantile population that worked raised from 183.000, which, in his opinion, can be attributed to a rise inthe poverty levels. “In those two years we had forts growth of the poverty, between the 2007 and 2008 poverty a 9.4 percent was increased and that caused an increase of the infantile population thatworks”, it maintained. According to the Propose document “for a program of urban poverty in El Salvador” of the Program of the Nations United for the Development (the PNUD), the ascent of the price ofthe petroleum and foods of 2007 to August of the 2008 and recession associated to the world-wide crisis elevated the percentage of homes in poverty of 30.7 percents in 2007 to 39.9 percents in 2008....