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Table 2 Sex trafficking awareness among youth females in Bahir Dar town, North-West Ethiopia, February 2012

From: Sex trafficking awareness and associated factors among youth females in Bahir Dar town, North-West Ethiopia: a community based study

Variables

Responses

Frequency

Percent

Heard or read about sex trafficking

Yes

249

59.7

 

No

168

40.3

Source of information about sex trafficking* (n = 249)

   
 

Friends

114

45.9

 

Radio

96

38.6

 

Television

159

63.9

 

News

42

16.9

 

letter

9

3.6

 

Othersa

  

Mediators for sex trafficking* (n = 249)

   
 

Friends

216

86.7

 

Brokers

185

74.3

 

Internet

22

8.8

 

Othersb

10

4.0

Reasons to be trafficked* (n = 249)

   
 

Poverty

111

44.6

 

Unemployment

124

49.8

 

Hope for better life elsewhere

180

72.3

 

Illiteracy

45

18.1

 

Low social status

9

3.6

 

Entrapment

9

3.6

 

False marriage

18

7.2

 

Othersc

7

2.8

Which age groups of females are more vulnerable to be trafficked

   
 

< 25 age group

298

71.4

 

≥ 25 age group

17

4.1

 

All age group

52

24.5

Has someone approached you to assist you in going abroad?

   
 

Yes

105

25.1

 

No

212

74.9

  1. *multiple responses are there, amini media, family, internet; brelatives, strangers, tourists; cfamily, divorce, family loss.