What percentage of sex workers are trafficked? I try to make an estimate:
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A general issue with these estimates is the small samples from different anti-trafficking orgs. I remember seeing a study on minors finding a lot of them to be put into sex trafficking, but then a lot of their samples were <10 from the different orgs they looked at for this
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I would hate to belittle legitimate victims but it looks to me like just another case of abused definition by the bloated bureaucracy. I have always considered this to be just another liberal trope along with the so called White Supremacy.
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What I'll say about the methodology about this, is that I suspect that there's a lot of clustering going on, and as such, it's actually fairly likely that the people who know someone who was trafficked knows quite a few people who were.
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Uh unclear, the studies I read also didn't seem to go too much in depth (altho i tended to skip over the first intro part where they might have defined it)
I was under the impression based on reading it that it was a situation where someone is forced into sex work without consent
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Haven’t read the post yet so maybe you make this point, but regardless of incidence you of sex trafficking, isn’t the best path to protecting SW’s to make SW legal and regulated ?
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On the one hand, social network connectedness might be a flawed methodology due to trafficking victims being isolated from social networks. On the other hand, the numbers seem to be fairly consistent with other methodologies, as you point out.
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Your methodology of comparing known population incidence to your survey sample is flawed. It basically concludes that your sample has a bias of r=0.6 for variables unrelated to sex trafficking, and just kind of assumes that bias should continue to hold for sex trafficking.
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guttmacher.org/report/abortio. Your exercise made me think about how we have been trying to get accurate data on how much self-managed abortion is happening outside of clinical settings - often feels like an exercise in futility but I think it always is going to be more than we know
