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Approaches to Estimating the Prevalence of Human Trafficking in the United States: A Workshop

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The Committee on National Statistics held a 2-day public workshop on estimating the prevalence of human trafficking in the United States on April 8-9, 2019. The workshop explored current and innovative sampling methods, technological approaches, and analytical strategies for estimating the prevalence of sex and labor trafficking in vulnerable populations. The workshop, sponsored by the Office on Women’s Health at the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), brought together statisticians, survey methodologists, researchers, public health practitioners, and other experts who work closely with human trafficking data or with the survivors of trafficking.

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2020

Human trafficking has many names and can take many forms - pimp control, commercial sex, exploitation, forced labor, modern slavery, child labor, and several others - and the definitions vary greatly across countries and cultures, as well as among researchers. In the United States, the Trafficking V...

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