Table 1. Sample characteristics, and bivariate odds ratios for 350 street- and off-street female sex workers who are mothers, stratified by ever having their children apprehended by child welfare services.
| Child apprehended | p-value | |||
| Characteristic | Total 350 (100%) | Yes 134 (38.3%) | No 216 (61.7%) | |
| Age | 37 (22–53) | 39 (19–61) | 0.153 | |
| Ethnicity | ||||
| Caucasian | 122 (34.9) | 50 (37.3) | 72 (33.3) | 0.450 |
| Visible minority† | 228 (65.1) | 84 (62.7) | 144 (66.6) | |
| Aboriginal Ancestry | 149 (42.6) | 79 (59.0) | 70 (32.4) | <0.001 |
| Immigrant to Canada | 80 (22.9) | 5 (3.7) | 75 (34.7) | <0.001 |
| High school graduate | 145 (41.4) | 51 (38.1) | 94 (43.5) | <0.001 |
| Homeless* | 254 (72.6) | 124 (93.2) | 130 (60.5) | <0.001 |
| Serviced clients in outdoor settings* | 241 (68.9) | 121 (90.3) | 120 (55.6) | 0.001 |
| Client-perpetrated physical or sexual violence* | 237 (67.7) | 107 (79.5) | 130 (60.2) | <0.001 |
| Incarcerated* | 228 (65.1) | 110 (82.1) | 118 (54.6) | <0.001 |
| Apprehended as child* | 131 (37.4) | 68 (50.8) | 63 (29.2) | <0.001 |
| Parents/family spent time in residential school* | 98 (28.0) | 51 (14.6) | 47 (21.8) | 0.001 |
| Injection drug use* | 201 (57.4) | 106 (75.0) | 95 (60.0) | <0.001 |
| Received trauma counselling support following child apprehension | 37 (10.6) | 37 (70.4) | 0 (0.0) | |
*Ever.
IQR: Interquartile Range.
†
Visible minority was defined as being Non-Caucasian, including: Chinese/Taiwanese, South Asian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, Filipina, Thai, Sri Lankan, Latin American, Middle Eastern, Black or First Nations.