The Impact of the Indonesian Financial Crisis on Children: Data from 100 Villages Survey
26 Pages Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Date Written: March 2002
Abstract
School attendance in Indonesia dropped slightly after the onset of the Asian crisis but then rebounded to higher-than-pre-crisis levels. Fewer children are now working, although the older children who are working and are not attending school seem to be working longer hours. Children's health status appears to be relatively stable.
Cameron examines the Asian crisis's impact on children in 100 Indonesian villages, based on data from four rounds of the 100 Villages survey that was used to examine changes in health status, school attendance rates, and children's participation in the labor force.
She finds little evidence that the crisis had a dramatically negative impact on children. School attendance dropped slightly after the onset of the crisis but then rebounded to higher-than-pre-crisis levels. Fewer children are now working, although the older children who are working and are not attending school seem to be working longer hours.
Children's health status appears to be relatively stable, although comparisons of indicators of children's health status over time are complicated by changes in the questionnaire used.
Cameron also examines ways households reported they were coping with the crisis.
This paper - a product of the Poverty Team, Development Research Group - is part of a larger effort in the group to study the welfare impact of the East Asian crisis. The author may be contacted at lcameron@unimelb.edu.au.
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