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First EU Statistical Data Report

Document number
2980
Date
2013
Title
First EU Statistical Data Report
Author/publisher
Eurostat
Availability
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Document type(s)
EU law, Guidelines/Recommendations, International Law, Research/Study/Analysis,
Keywords
human trafficking, migration, exploitation, prostitution, European Union, Eurostat, statistics
Summary

This publication presents the first report at the EU level on statistics on trafficking in human beings. It includes data for the years 2008, 2009 and 2010,  from all 27 EU Member States, Croatia and the following EU Candidate and EFTA/EEA countries: Iceland, Montenegro, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland and Turkey.

This report includes statistics on the total number of identified and presumed victimsdisaggregated by gender, age and form of exploitation, and also contains statistics on victims' citizenship and type of assistance and protection received.

The data have been collected from different authorities working in the field of trafficking in human beings, including civil society organisations.

Moreover, the report also includes statistics on suspected, prosecuted and convictedtraffickers disaggregated by gender, citizenship and form of exploitation.

Although the report focuses on statistical data from the registration systems in the respective organisations, Member States were encouraged to also send in metadata from other sources such as projects, studies and reports.

(source: European Commission)