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Differences Between Auditors: Auditors’ Training
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• 55 % from China and 42 % from other countries attended child labor training
In the aggregate, significantly more male auditors received child labor training compared to females( 55 % vs. 45 %). However, when we compared China to other countries, we found that only in China did male auditors receive significantly more child labor training than their female counterparts( 61 % vs. 47 %).
It is interesting to note that for all countries except China, there was a significant positive correlation between the number of child labor cases auditors discovered and whether they received child labor training. The strong association between the number of child labor cases and the auditors’ training in other countries makes us reflect upon the role of child labor training on the increased discovery of child labor incidents. If such connection were true, would it also imply that the kind of training auditors received in China was not effective in helping auditors identify child labor? Or would it mean that internal factors, such as knowledge and awareness, play little role in the number of discovered child labor cases in China? Given that, how would we explain the role of gender and experience, which were significantly associated with the number of child labor cases? While the available data cannot fully answer these questions, the significant difference between China and other countries in terms of who provided the child labor training to these auditors might have interesting implications. As indicated in Figure 9, three quarters of
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