Table 3.
Relationship between social-structural factors and involuntary sex exchange among female sex workers (N=214) in Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, 2010–2011
| Variable | Involuntary sex exchange | Total N=214 |
P-Value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes N=31 N (%) |
No N=183 N (%) |
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| Places exchanged sex1 | ||||
| Bar or cantina | 5 (16.1%) | 30 (16.5%) | 35 (16.4%) | 1.000 |
| Street | 24 (77.4%) | 146 (80.2%) | 170 (79.8%) | 0.809 |
| Hotel or motel | 11 (35.5%) | 35 (19.2%) | 46 (21.6%) | 0.057 |
| Primary source of income2 | 0.443 | |||
| Sex work | 27 (87.1%) | 155 (84.7%) | 182 (85.0%) | |
| Other informal work | 2 (6.5%) | 14 (7.7%) | 16 (7.5%) | |
| Spouse/steady partner’s work | 1 (3.2%) | 9 (4.9%) | 10 (5.7%) | |
| A legal or official job | 0 (0.0%) | 2 (1.1%) | 2 (0.9%) | |
| Lives and works in the same location | 6 (19.4%) | 9 (4.9%) | 15 (7.0%) | 0.011 |
| Evaluation of working conditions | ||||
| Bad/Extremely bad | 13 (41.9%) | 33 (18.0%) | 46 (21.5%) | 0.008 |
| Good/Neutral | 18 (58.1%) | 150 (82.0%) | 168 (78.5%) | |
| Must pay a manager/pimp or share % of earnings | 5 (16.1%) | 5 (2.7%) | 10 (4.7%) | 0.007 |
| Exposure to gender-based violence | ||||
| Ever raped | 20 (64.5%) | 41 (22.4%) | 61 (28.5%) | <0.001 |
1
In the past 6 months;
2
In the past month;
NOTE: Data are N (%) of women, unless otherwise indicated. Certain percentages may reflect denominators smaller than the N value give in the column head. Except as specifically noted, these discrepancies are due to missing data.