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. 2023 Jul 25;18(7):e0288717. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0288717

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