The main objective of this study is to provide estimates of migrant child labourer as well as to examine activities of the children by migration status. By scale and content, this is the first study of its kind. This implies that about 80 thousand children moved from their place of origin for economic reasons during five years period preceding the survey. Of this 67 thousands were males and 13 thousands were females.
Age appears to be an important factor for migration of child labourers.
Rural area overwhelmingly dominates the urban in terms of migration of child labourer type 1. About 40 thousand migrant child labourers were estimated to have originated in the hills. Irrespective of the place of destination, migration of child labourers from rural to urban areas constituted 53.8 per cent and that from urban to urban areas constituted 54.8 per cent. It received 68.9 per cent of the child labourer originated from the same zone. It also received 35.3 per cent originated from the mountain and 30.8 per cent originated from the Tarai.