Counting what counts; Tools for the validation and utilization of EU statistics on human trafficking
- Document number
- 3120
- Date
- 2014
- Title
- Counting what counts; Tools for the validation and utilization of EU statistics on human trafficking
- Author/publisher
- Jan J. M. van Dijk, Leon en M. van der Knaap, Marcelo F. Aebi and Claudia Campistol
- Availability
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- Document type(s)
- Guidelines/Recommendations,
- Keywords
- human trafficking, exploitation, abuse, EU, statistics
- Summary
- This is the final report of the EU-funded project "Tools for the validation and utilization of EU statistics on human trafficking", implemented by the University of Tilburg and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
In this final report the authors will first explain the methodology of the project and report on the lessons learned. Subsequently, the main results will be presented regarding data on identified or presumed victims of human trafficking, the provision of assistance and protection to them and on suspected, prosecuted and convicted traffickers. In the final chapter the utilization of the data for policy purposes is discussed and the main conclusions are summarized. This chapter ends with a list of key recommendations for future work on EU-wide data on human trafficking. The final chapter can be read as an executive summary of the report. Some of the tools used in the project such as the questionnaire and three commissioned papers on the policy-uses of THB statistics have been included in appendices. The data and metadata collected and minutes of the two seminars are available for interested parties.