In the article “US reports on child labour fail to reflect improvements, govt says” [September 16], Joseph Menacherry, chief technical adviser for the ILO’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, was quoted as saying that data in a survey on child labour by the US department of labour was based on extrapolations of surveys conducted earlier this decade. In fact, Menacherry was referring not to the US survey, but to studies conducted by the Understanding Children’s Work (UCW) project in Rome.