Abstract
Compares the World Bank's multi-purpose household surveys (notably the Living Standards Measurement Study/Integrated Survey series and the Priority Survey series) and the ILO's Statistical Information and Monitoring Programme on Child Labour (SIMPOC) which are among the main sources of the data currently used to study the nature and extent of child labour. Looks at the relative strengths and weaknesses of these instruments on the basis of surveys conducted in Zambia in 1998 (by the World Bank) and in 1999 (by the ILO).