TABLE 1—
Prevalence and Profile of Adolescent Sex Trade Entry, Pregnancy, Marriage, and Sexual Violence: Tijuana and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, 2013–2014
| Characteristic | Total, No. (%) | Aged < 18 Years at ST Entry, No. (%) | Aged ≥ 18 Years at ST Entry, No. (%) | Aged < 16 Years, Pregnancy | Aged < 16 Years, Marriage | Aged < 16 Years, Sexual Violence | |||
| Yes, No. (%) | No, No. (%) | Yes, No. (%) | No, No. (%) | Yes, No. (%) | No, No. (%) | ||||
| Total | . . . | 153 (25.4) | 450 (74.6) | 159 (30.3) | 365 (69.7) | 121 (20.1) | 482 (79.9) | 97 (16.1) | 505 (83.9) |
| Current age, y | |||||||||
| ≤ 25 | 146 (24.2) | 47 (30.7) | 99 (22.0) | 40 (25.2) | 76 (20.8) | 29 (24.0) | 117 (24.3) | 16 (16.5) | 130 (25.7) |
| 26–35 | 210 (34.8) | 51 (33.3) | 159 (35.3) | 55 (34.6) | 128 (35.1) | 50 (41.3) | 160 (33.2) | 39 (40.2) | 170 (33.7) |
| ≥ 36 | 247 (41.0) | 55 (36.0) | 192 (42.7) | 64 (40.3) | 161 (44.1) | 42 (34.7) | 205 (42.5) | 42 (43.3) | 205 (40.6) |
| City | |||||||||
| Ciudad Juárez | 302 (50.1) | 81 (52.9) | 221 (49.1) | 96 (60.4) | 200 (54.8) | 49 (40.5)* | 253 (52.5)* | 31 (32.0)* | 271 (53.7)* |
| Tijuana | 301 (49.9) | 72 (47.1) | 229 (50.9) | 63 (39.6) | 165 (45.2) | 72 (59.5)* | 229 (47.5)* | 66 (68.0)* | 234 (46.3)* |
| Education | |||||||||
| < primary | 267 (44.3) | 80 (52.3) | 187 (41.6) | 87 (54.7)* | 160 (43.8)* | 70 (57.9)* | 197 (40.9)* | 44 (45.4) | 222 (44.0) |
| ≥ some secondary | 236 (39.1) | 51 (33.3) | 185 (41.1) | 60 (37.7)* | 140 (38.4)* | 41 (33.9)* | 195 (40.5)* | 34 (35.1) | 202 (40.0) |
| > secondary | 100 (16.6) | 22 (14.4) | 78 (17.3) | 12 (7.6)* | 65 (17.8)* | 10 (8.3)* | 90 (18.7)* | 19 (19.6) | 81 (16.0) |
Note. ST = sex trade. The sample size was n = 603.
*
P < .05.