Information on immunization, breastfeeding, hospital and other health services available are already widely-used in indicator work. Ministry of education School enrolment, attendance and drop-out figures can be very revealing, as can data on repetition of grades. Often the best sources for this are local schools. It is particularly important to look for differences by gender, region, ethnic group. Seasonal differences and variations between different school shifts may also indicate child work that interferes with schooling.
Teachers can be wonderful sources of information to help in the analysis of such figures.
It is also important to look at the school system as a whole. Most of the answers to these questions are likely to be negative, but this is still baseline data. Many ministries of employment carry put studies of what is usually called the 'informal sector', which does not always appear in official employment statistics. As child labour in formal, waged employment is usually forbidden by law, most children work in the 'informal sector' and it is useful to have some idea about the local informal work scene. But official information will give plenty of information about the working lives of parents in poor communities.