Authors: Jordyn White

Publication Year: 2019

Last Updated: 2019-10-01

Journal: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine/The National Academies Press.

Keywords: respondent-driven sampling, referral-based sampling, multiple systems estimation, ILO, definition of forced labor, Trafficking Victims Protection Act (2017)

Abstract:

The workshop, sponsored by the Office on Women’s Health at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), 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. 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.  Dorothy Fink Deputy Assistant Secretary for Women’s Health and the Director of the Office on Women’s Health at HHS) called the issue a bipartisan congressional priority, and she highlighted the passing of the Trafficking Victims’ Protection Act (2017) and the Put Trafficking Victims First Act (2019) as necessary steps toward developing methodologies to assess the prevalence of human trafficking.

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Source: https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25550/estimating-the-prevalence-of-human-trafficking-in-the-united-states-considerations-and-complexities