Table 2. Socio-demographic profile and financial vulnerabilities among female sex workers (N = 2400) in Andhra Pradesh, India, 2014.
| Vulnerability | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socio-demographic characteristics | % (n) or Mean (SD) | No other source of income rather than sex work | No saving for future and not having personal assets | Not having money of their own and decide how to make expenditure | Currently under financial debt | Financial vulnerability | ||
| Low/Medium | High | p-value | ||||||
| Age (Mean, SD) | 30.9 (5.8) | |||||||
| Age | 0.884 | |||||||
| <30 years | 43.3 (1040) | 9.8 (102) | 29.5 (307) | 56.0 (582) | 63.8 (663) | 82.8 (861) | 17.2 (179) | |
| > = 30 years | 56.7 (1360) | 6.0 (81) | 26.8 (365) | 54.3 (739) | 67.9 (923) | 83.1 (1129) | 16.9 (231) | |
| Education | 0.116 | |||||||
| No formal education | 56.3 (1350) | 6.7 (91) | 29.1 (393) | 56.0 (757) | 67.9 (916) | 81.8 (1105) | 18.2 (245) | |
| Having formal education | 43.7 (1050) | 8.8 (92) | 26.6 (279) | 53.7 (564) | 63.8 (670) | 84.3 (885) | 15.7 (165) | |
| Marital status | 0.000 | |||||||
| Never married | 5.0 (119) | 23.5 (28) | 19.3 (23) | 50.4 (60) | 57.1 (68) | 82.3 (98) | 17.7 (21) | |
| Currently married | 66.5 (1596) | 6.6 (105) | 26.1 (417) | 54.4 (868) | 66.4 (1059) | 85.0 (1358) | 15.0 (238) | |
| Widowed/deserted/separated/ divorced | 28.5 (685) | 7.3 (50) | 33.9 (232) | 57.4 (393) | 67.0 (459) | 78.0 (534) | 22.0 (151) | |
| Typology for sex work | 0.007 | |||||||
| Home-based | 13.9 (333) | 3.9 (13) | 23.7 (79) | 49.3 (164) | 64.3 (214) | 88.0 (293) | 12.0 (40) | |
| Brothel and lodge-based | 4.5 (109) | 2.8 (03) | 13.8 (15) | 47.7 (52) | 78.0 (85) | 89.0 (97) | 11.0 (12) | |
| Street/public places | 27.6 (663) | 6.3 (42) | 30.0 (199) | 54.6 (362) | 67.7 (449) | 80.4 (533) | 19.6 (130) | |
| Mobile phones | 54.0 (1295) | 9.7 (125) | 29.3 (379) | 57.4 (743) | 64.7 (838) | 82.4 (1067) | 17.6 (228) | |
| Usual place of practicing sex work | 0.000 | |||||||
| Rural/semi-urban | 46.7 (1121) | 5.6 (63) | 18.7 (210) | 45.5 (510) | 72.0 (806) | 88.8 (996) | 11.2 (125) | |
| Urban | 53.3 (1279) | 9.4 (120) | 36.1 (462) | 63.4 (811) | 61.0 (780) | 77.7 (994) | 22.3 (285) | |
| Total | 100.0 (2400) | 7.6 (183) | 28.0 (672) | 55.0 (1321) | 66.0 (1586) | 82.9 (1990) | 17.1 (410) | |
Note: p-values for financial vulnerability were calculated through chi-square test.