Table 2. Change in practice of sex work and context in the early and recent period of sex work among young female sex workers in Mombasa, Kenya, 2015.
| Early (N = 408) % | Recent (N = 408) % | P value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Management of sex work | Pimp | 6.4 | 1.5 | <0.001 |
| Manager | 4.4 | 1.5 | ||
| Self-managed | 91.2 | 98.0 | ||
| Number of paying clients per week | 0–2 | 46.2 | 39.3 | <0.001 |
| 3–4 | 34.1 | 19.5 | ||
| 5 or more | 16.5 | 39.3 | ||
| Do not know/ did not answer | 3.2 | 1.9 | ||
| Mean number of paying clients per week (#) | 4.0 client (SD†-8.3) | 5.7 client (SD†-6.9) | <0.001 | |
| Meet living expenses through income of sex work | Less than half | 30.2 | 15.0 | <0.001 |
| Half | 51.0 | 38.2 | ||
| More than half | 18.8 | 46.8 | ||
| Experienced coercion in the past month | 7.6 | 4.6 | 0.18 | |
| Experienced police violence in the past month | 6.5 | 16.4 | <0.001 | |
†SD: Standard deviation