Available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.19085/sijmas071101 194 SCHOLEDGE International Journal of Multidisciplinary & Allied Studies ISSN 2394-336X, Vol.07, Issue 11 (2020), Pg 194 -207. DOI: 10.19085/sijmas071101 © SCHOLEDGE Publishing www.thescholedge.org |Email: editorial@thescholedge.org Nexus between Poverty and Child Labor: A Case Study in Narayanganj Area of Bangladesh Using Binary Logistic Regression Shamima Akter Department of Economics, Hamdard University Bangladesh, Bangladesh Wasim Akram Lecturer, Department of Economics, Hamdard University Bangladesh, Bangladesh Abstract The purpose of the study is to see how poverty influences child labor. To carry out the study, moderate poor people have been considered as respondents. Kalibazar and Langalband regions of Narayanganj district have been selected. Random sampling technique and Focused Group Discussion with children have been taken to conduct the study. Data has been collected from 50 Household Heads and 50 Children (male and female). For economic analysis, the Binary Logistic Regression model has been undertaken to see the relationship between poverty and child labor. The analysis shows that the odds ratio indicates that drop-out children from school are 11.34 times more likely to go for taking the occupation of child labor due to poverty (major cause) than those children who have been dropped out due to other reasons (reference category). The study also shows that the families having no loan are 0.444 times less likely to go for child labor due to major causes (poverty) than that of the families having a loan. Moreover, the odds ratio corresponding to the children who use their income to help their families is 3.26. It means that the children who use their income for family purposes go 3.26 times more likely to take the occupation of child labor due to a major cause (poverty) than those children who do not use their income for family purposes. At the same time, the children who use their income for treatment purposes go 1.45 times more likely to take the occupation of child labor due to poverty (a major cause) than those children who do not use their income for treatment purposes. Keywords: Poverty, Child labour, Narayanganj, Children Background of the Study Bangladesh, situated in South Asia, is a unitary and the need to supplement income in every possible way and an independent country since 1971. It is a country of child work cannot be ignored. He showed that poverty is1,47,570 km2 and around 149 million people with one of the most often cited reasons for the use of child labor in the world’s most densely populated nations. The employment of children is an enormous problem in Bangladesh, with around increases in total family income (Alam et., al. 2008).