Explore the type of activity (such as agricultural or non-agricultural work, dependent or own-account worker) of Older Cohort individuals in the past 12 months:
This visualisation shows the type of main activity in which Older Cohort individuals were involved at ages 19 (Round 4 survey in 2013) and 22 (Round 5 survey in 2016) by country sites, household wealth, location and sex. The left bar chart shows the average percentage of Older Cohort individuals involved in any paid or unpaid work in the past 12 months, with the coloured markers indicating the percentage according to category. The stacked bar charts to the right show the percentage of young people by category involved in each main activity, and whether or not the activity is paid. For information on how we define these categories and descriptors, please find our data dictionary below.
| Label | Description |
| Location | Household's location in round 5 (2016) survey. The sentinel sites and communities that households were sampled from in 2016 were defined as urban or rural, based on administrative definitions in each country. |
| Household wealth | Household's wealth in round 5 (2016) survey computed using the Young Lives Wealth Index disaggregated into terciles (top, middle, bottom). The Young Lives Wealth Index is a composite index measuring households' access to services such as water and sanitation, their ownership of consumer durables such as refrigerators, and the quality of floor, roof, and wall materials in their dwelling. Households in each cohort of the Young Lives survey were categorised into terciles based on their wealth index in 2002, with the households with lowest wealth belonging to the bottom tercile, and those with the highest wealth belonging to the top tercile. |
| Activity |
Studying: Average hours spent at school/college/university (including all time spent, not only attending hours, and travelling time, out and return), studying at home, and extra tuition outside the home. Working (paid): Average hours spent doing activities for pay or for money outside of household or for someone not in the household. Working (unpaid): Average hours spent doing tasks on family farm, cattle herding (household and/or community), other family business, shepherding, piecework or handicrafts done at home (not just farming). Doing domestic tasks (including caring for others): Average hours spent doing domestic tasks (fetching water, firewood, cleaning, cooking, washing, and shopping) and caring for others (younger children or ill households members). Playing: Average hours spent on leisure (playing, seeing frineds, using the internet, etc.) Sleeping: Average hours spent sleeping. |
Explore the type of activity (such as agricultural or non-agricultural work, dependent or own-account worker) of Older Cohort individuals in the past 12 months:
This visualisation shows the type of main activity in which Older Cohort individuals were involved at ages 19 (Round 4 survey in 2013) and 22 (Round 5 survey in 2016) by country sites, household wealth, location and sex. The left bar chart shows the average percentage of Older Cohort individuals involved in any paid or unpaid work in the past 12 months, with the coloured markers indicating the percentage according to category. The stacked bar charts to the right show the percentage of young people by category involved in each main activity, and whether or not the activity is paid. For information on how we define these categories and descriptors, please find our data dictionary below.
| Label | Description |
| Location | Household's location in round 5 (2016) survey. The sentinel sites and communities that households were sampled from in 2016 were defined as urban or rural, based on administrative definitions in each country. |
| Household wealth | Household's wealth in round 5 (2016) survey computed using the Young Lives Wealth Index disaggregated into terciles (top, middle, bottom). The Young Lives Wealth Index is a composite index measuring households' access to services such as water and sanitation, their ownership of consumer durables such as refrigerators, and the quality of floor, roof, and wall materials in their dwelling. Households in each cohort of the Young Lives survey were categorised into terciles based on their wealth index in 2002, with the households with lowest wealth belonging to the bottom tercile, and those with the highest wealth belonging to the top tercile. |
| Activity |
Studying: Average hours spent at school/college/university (including all time spent, not only attending hours, and travelling time, out and return), studying at home, and extra tuition outside the home. Working (paid): Average hours spent doing activities for pay or for money outside of household or for someone not in the household. Working (unpaid): Average hours spent doing tasks on family farm, cattle herding (household and/or community), other family business, shepherding, piecework or handicrafts done at home (not just farming). Doing domestic tasks (including caring for others): Average hours spent doing domestic tasks (fetching water, firewood, cleaning, cooking, washing, and shopping) and caring for others (younger children or ill households members). Playing: Average hours spent on leisure (playing, seeing frineds, using the internet, etc.) Sleeping: Average hours spent sleeping. |