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Collecting Data on Human Trafficking: Availability, Reliability and Comparability of Trafficking Data

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Measuring Human Trafficking

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During recent years, there has been a boom in information on trafficking in persons. However, reliability of data remains a problem with most data sources. If figures on trafficking are given, they are often based on estimates of the level of trafficking and, usually, no explanation is given on how these figures were calculated. In many cases, they are used for advocacy or fund-raising purposes. Data collection on human trafficking is complicated and reliable data is still difficult to find.

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  1. Chief, Anti-Human Trafficking Unit, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Vienna, Austria

    Kristiina Kangaspunta

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  1. Professor of Criminology, Director of Transcrime (Joint Research Centre on Transnational Crime), ISPAC Scientific Co-ordinator, Catholic University of Milan, Italy

    Ernesto U. Savona

  2. Professor of Methodology of Social Research, Faculty of Sociology, Officer-in-charge of CNPDS/ISPAC research activities, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy

    Sonia Stefanizzi

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Kangaspunta, K. (2007). Collecting Data on Human Trafficking: Availability, Reliability and Comparability of Trafficking Data. In: Savona, E.U., Stefanizzi, S. (eds) Measuring Human Trafficking. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-68044-6_4

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