 The figures then rise to 47% for children between ages 10–14 and 34% for ages 15–17.Among the number of working children of ages 5 to 17, only 45% have the chance to attend school.Non-economic productive activities such as housework tend to start earlier than economic activities, although less intensively, causing children in Cambodia to be performing ‘double-duty’ — they are involved in housework and economic activity, leaving them little or no time to go to school.