The respondents included 44 boys and 62 girls from the Cordillera Administrative Region, most of them attending school and considered unpaid seasonal family workers in either family-owned or farms owned by relatives or acquaintances in the community.

On their own volition, most of the children worked only on weekends and during school vacation to augment very meager household incomes needed to pay for basic necessities, school fees and family debts. Exposure to hazards (e.g., agrochemicals, physical injuries from farm implements, and the elements) is generally relative to gender and the nature of the tasks at hand (where boys are normally assigned to more tedious and strenuous tasks), and geographical location (highland or lowland).