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1.1. Contact organisation | European Commission - Eurostat |
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1.2. Contact organisation unit | F4: Income and living conditions; Quality of life |
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1.5. Contact mail address | 5 Rue Alphonse Weicker L-2721 Luxembourg |
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2.1. Metadata last certified | 24/01/2024 | ||
2.2. Metadata last posted | 24/01/2024 | ||
2.3. Metadata last update | 24/01/2024 |
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3.1. Data description | |||
The figures are related to victims and traffickers connected to the criminal offence of trafficking in human beings as defined under Article 2 of the Directive 2011/36/EU. They are available at country level for European Union Member States. The statistics include, from 2008 onwards:
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3.2. Classification system | |||
Crimes are classified by the International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS). Regions are classified by Nomenclature of territorial units for statistics (NUTS). Legal status is classified according to United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime definitions. |
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3.3. Coverage - sector | |||
Not applicable.
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3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions | |||
VICTIMS AND PERPETRATORS WITHIN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM Victims definition: A registered victim can include a person who has been formally identified as a victim of trafficking in human beings by the relevant formal authority in a Member State or a person who has met the criteria of the EU Directive but has not been formally identified by the relevant formal authority as a trafficking victim or who has declined to be formally or legally identified as trafficked. Comments by countries on Victims(see also 18.1 Source of data for an explanation of the national system for registering victims) BE: National authorities (if not recorded by police) :"Specialized reception centers". Immigration Offices (the Immigration Office Database does not record the number of belgian victims.) BG: Provided data from the Police are according to the following texts of the Criminal Code: Section IX of the Criminal Code Trafficking of People Article 159a (1) An individual who recruits, transports, hides or admits individuals or groups of people in view of using them for sexual activities, forced labour or begging, dispossession of a body organ, tissue, cell or body fluid or holding them in forceful subjection, regardless of their consent, shall be punished by imprisonment of two to eight years and a fine from BGN three thousand to twelve thousand (2) Where the act under Paragraph 1 has been committed:
(3) Where the act under para 1 has been committed in respect to a pregnant woman to the purpose of selling her child, the punishment shall be imprisonment from three to fifteen years and a fine from BGN twenty thousand to fifty thousand. Article 159b (1) An individual who recruits, transports, hides or admits individuals or groups of people and guides them over the border of the country with the objectives under Article 159a, Paragraph 1, shall be punished by imprisonment from three to twelve years and a fine of up to BGN 10,000 to 20,000. (2) Where the act under Paragraph 1 has been committed in presence of characteristics under Article 159a, Paragraph 2 and 3, the punishment shall be imprisonment from five to twelve years and a fine from BGN twenty thousand to fifty thousand. Article 159c A person who takes advantage of a person who suffered from human trafficking for acts of debauchery, forced labour or begging, dispossession of a body organ, tissue, cell or body fluid or holding him in forceful subjection, regardless of his consent shall be punished by imprisonment from three to ten years and a fine from BGN ten thousand to twenty thousand. Article 159d Where acts under articles 159a - 159c qualify as dangerous recidivism or have been committed at the orders or in implementing a decision of an organized criminal group, the punishment shall be imprisonment from five to fifteen years and a fine from BGN twenty thousand to one hundred thousand, the courts being also competent to impose confiscation of some or all possessions of the perpetrator. Provided data from the SACP are according to the Coordination mechanism for care of cases of unaccompanied Bulgarian children and children victims of trafficking returning from abroad. CZ: Registering organisation = Police of the Czech Republic
EL: Most reporting forms were received by actors of the Public Sector: Police, Asylum Service, Reception and Identification Service (incl. the National Public Health Organization within RIS's accommodation facilities) and 99 were from Civil Society actors. The increased number of identified victims and reported to the NRM in 2022 compared to the previous years is considered to be related to a variety of factors, mainly the advance of familiarity with the issue of human trafficking and the NRM function of RIS field professionals and stability of partnerships built within NRM.
Definition of "victim" as recorded by NGOs: NGOs do not distinguish between identified or presumed victims. They offer unconditional assistance. The formal identification is through the police.
RO: Within the registering organisation it was considered National Agency Against Trafficking in Persons authority, the Romanian national Rapporteur, which is operationalizing a national database regarding victims of trafficking in persons, with data provided by the competent police units for combating trafficking in persons (from Romanian Police) and regional centers of the Agency.
Persons Suspected definition: Suspects refer to persons brought into formal contact for trafficking in human beings with the police/criminal justice system. “Formal contact" with the police and/or criminal justice system may include persons suspected, or arrested or cautioned, for a criminal offence of trafficking in human beings, at the national level. Comments by countries on Persons Suspected (see also 18.1 Source of data) BG: Provided data are from the Police and cover the following articles of the Criminal Code: 159a; 159b; 159c; 159d. CZ: Police of the Czech Republic reports the suspected person (offender) after the start of criminal procedure. DK: It is not possible to distinguish between actual trafficking and the use of services. In Denmark they are both recorded under the same type of offence. SE: The number of persons refers to every unique individual suspected of trafficking in human beings in the reference year, regardless of the number of offences. Only suspected persons where the investigation of the offence has been finalized (either closed down or led to prosecution et al.) and where the suspicion is of the degree "resonable suspicion/probable cause" are included in the statistics.
Persons Convicted definition: Persons found guilty for trafficking in human beings by any legal body authorized to pronounce a conviction under national criminal law, whether or not the conviction was later upheld. Comments by countries on Persons Convicted (see also 18.1 Source of data) BG: Data cover persons convicted with final sentences came into force during the reporting year. Data cover the following articles of the Criminal Code: 159a; 159b; 159c; 159d. CZ: It is the number of persons convicted in the given year. The number of convicted persons in the given year could be higher than the number of prosecuted persons due to the time delay and the fact that the data are from another source. Example: the prosecution started in 2019 and the case was brought to court in 2019 as well. But the person was convicted in 2020. Thus the persons is reported in prosecuted persons in 2019, but in convicted persons in 2020.
Victims/Suspected persons/Convicted persons by sex Data on victims, suspected and convicted persons is collected on the total number of female and male persons. The categories ‘Other’ and ‘Unknown’ are also provided in the data collection but are not disseminated.
Victims by Citizenship Member States are requested to list all the countries of citizenship of trafficked victims (by sex and age (adult/child)) based on information in their passport or in other identity documents and state the total number of victims per country per year. The data provided should be absolute numbers (not percentages). To avoid double counting, it is advisable to count only one citizenship per victim. Data protection laws should be complied with. Stateless, Refugee, Unknown but in the EU and Unknown but outside the EU categories are also available. Disseminated data are further aggregated in:
Comments by countries on Victims' citizenship CZ: Police registers report citizienship according the international Country codes EL: NRM data MT: Refers to the citizenship registered with respective entities. NL: Nationality was used as a proxy for citizenship. AT: LEFÖ-IBF (NGO) does not collect data that is coherently linked to persons. Therefore, LEFÖ-IBF cannot provide information on the linkage of citizenship and another category (such as citizenship and age). Due to the evaluation of the database, LEFÖ-IBF cannot link additional categories other than sex. Thus, the age were indicated as unknown. Note from MEN-VIA (NGO): In Austria we have a big trafficking case with male asylum seekers form Iraq, so all Irawqi victims are just from this one case
Victims by form of exploitation Member States are requested to list the total number of victims (by sex and age group) by form of exploitation. The identified forms of exploitation are: Sexual, Forced Labour including domestic servitude, Forced Begging/Use for Begging, Criminal Activities, Removal of Organs, Benefit Fraud, and Others (such as Forced Marriages, Illegal Adoptions, Selling of Children). Forced begging or Use for begging means the exploitation of begging, including the use of a trafficked dependent person for begging. Criminal Activities: exploitation for the purpose of Criminal Activities such as drug trafficking, terrorism and petty crimes. Where possible, indicate the types of criminal activity involved. Benefit Fraud: exploitation for the purpose of Benefit Fraud is singled out based on the increase identified in Europol's Serious and Organised Crime Threat Assessment report of 2013 and as it is included in Europol, Situation Report (2016), Trafficking in human beings. Others: Exploitation for the purpose of Forced Marriage, Illegal Adoption, Selling of Children, Slavery, etc. In case of multiple forms of exploitation for the same victim, in the data collection the following categories are available: Sexual and labour, Sexual and other form of exploitation, Labour and other form of exploitation, Other multiple forms of exploitation. The total number of victims by form of exploitation must match with the total number of victims and any differences should be explained. Disseminated data are further aggregated in the categories 'Trafficking in persons for sexual exploitation [ICCS02041], 'Trafficking in persons for forced labour or services [ICCS02042]', Trafficking in persons for other purposes [ICCS02043 and ICCS02044]'.Thus, the category ‘Trafficking in persons for other purposes’ includes Forced Begging/Use for Begging, Criminal Activities, Removal of Organs, Benefit Fraud, and Others (such as Forced Marriages, Illegal Adoptions, Selling of Children). Victims exploited by more forms of exploitation are counted in both categories. As a victim exploited, for exemple, by sexual and other form is counted in both categories, the sum of the forms of exploitation is not equal to the number of victims. However, the total number of victims is available in the dataset ‘Persons involved in trafficking in human beings by legal status and sex’.
Comments by countries on Victims' form of exploitation BE: Other form of exploitation = smuggling ; unknown = not clearly established |
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3.5. Statistical unit | |||
The statistical units are people, depending on the type of statistics: victims, suspects and convicted. |
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3.6. Statistical population | |||
For administrative data, the statistical population for each statistic is the complete register (all the relevant records). For people, all ages and nationalities are counted. |
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3.7. Reference area | |||
European Union Member States. |
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3.8. Coverage - Time | |||
The current tables are available from 2008 onwards. |
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3.9. Base period | |||
Not applicable. |
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Absolute number. Rate by 100.000 population size. Population size defined as resident population January 1st according to Eurostat database population figures. |
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The standard reference period is the calendar year. |
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6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements | |||
The Directive 2011/36/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2011 on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims, and replacing Council Framework Decision 2002/629/JHA. |
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6.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing | |||
Directive 2011/36/EU Article 19 - National rapporteurs or equivalent mechanisms states "Member States shall take the necessary measures to establish national rapporteurs or equivalent mechanisms. The tasks of such mechanisms shall include the carrying out of assessments of trends in trafficking in human beings, the measuring of results of anti-trafficking actions, including the gathering of statistics in close cooperation with relevant civil society organisations active in this field, and reporting." |
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7.1. Confidentiality - policy | |||
Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics(recital 24 and Article 20(4)) of 11 March 2009 (OJ L 87, p. 164), stipulates the need to establish common principles and guidelines ensuring the confidentiality of data used for the production of European statistics and the access to those confidential data with due account for technical developments and the requirements of users in a democratic society. |
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7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment | |||
Decisions regarding disclosure risk and the selection and implementation of disclosure control methods rest with the national data suppliers. |
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8.1. Release calendar | |||
In general, data are released within 13 months after the reference year. |
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8.2. Release calendar access | |||
8.3. Release policy - user access | |||
In line with the Community legal framework and the European Statistics Code of Practice, Eurostat disseminates European statistics on Eurostat's website (see item 10 - 'Accessibility and clarity') respecting professional independence and in an objective, professional and transparent manner in which all users are treated equitably. The detailed arrangements are governed by the Eurostat protocol on impartial access to Eurostat data for users. |
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Annual. |
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10.1. Dissemination format - News release | |||
Ad hoc news releases on-line. |
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10.2. Dissemination format - Publications | |||
Trafficking in human beings Statistics Explained Crime Publication section - https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/crime/publications Eurostat and DG HOME publications on Trafficking in Human Beings: Trafficking in human beings (2013 edition) Trafficking in human beings (2015 edition) Data collection on trafficking in human beings in the EU (2018) Data collection on trafficking in human beings in the EU (2020) |
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10.3. Dissemination format - online database | |||
Tables are available on-line in Eurostat webpage Crime Database and are updated annually. |
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10.4. Dissemination format - microdata access | |||
Not applicable. |
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10.5. Dissemination format - other | |||
Not applicable. |
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10.6. Documentation on methodology | |||
Each country determines the data production and is responsible for its documentation. Data are produced by official authorities such as Police, Prosecution, Court Administration, Ministry of the Interior and Ministry of Justice. Each country determines which authority or statistical office should collect, check and send data and documentation. EUROSTAT methodological guidance 2024 for more details on counting rules can be found at https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/product?code=KS-GQ-24-010. More details (as listed below) on methodological rules are available in metadata Crime and Criminal Justice (crim) 10.6. Documentation on methodology section:
Monitoring EU crime policies using the International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS) This publication is the second in a series of Eurostat booklets to support the implementation of the ICCS, with the first booklet providing general remarks, a roadmap for the implementation as well as translations of ICCS category titles in all official EU languages. The overall purpose of this second booklet is to describe how the specific criminal offences defined in the legislation passed at EU level should be mapped to the ICCS. For these offences, a common approach towards the alignment with the ICCS needs to be developed, where possible, to ensure that all EU Member States treat these offences consistently when applying the ICCS at national level. A paragraph on Trafficking in human beings crime can be found. Trafficking in human beings - 2013 edition 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. Trafficking in human beings - 2015 edition This publication constitutes the second working paper at the EU level on statistics on trafficking in human beings and contains data for the years 2010, 2011 and 2012. |
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10.7. Quality management - documentation | |||
None. |
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11.1. Quality assurance | |||
Data are provided to Eurostat by a contact designated by each country. Notably, this contact can be another authority than the national statistical office. Each country determine its own procedures for gathering data from several different authorities. According to Article 19 of the Directive, National rapporteurs or equivalent mechanisms (NREM) should be established in Member States whose tasks include the gathering of statistics in close cooperation with relevant civil society organisations active in this field, and reporting. |
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11.2. Quality management - assessment | |||
No assessment has been made. |
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12.1. Relevance - User Needs | |||
The need to provide information on the crime of trafficking in human beings in the European Union is mandatory under article 19 of the Directive 2011/36/EU. |
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12.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction | |||
No user satisfaction survey has been done. |
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12.3. Completeness | |||
Data is missing for some countries, for some years, in nearly all tables, for all types of statistics. The table below shows the number of countries for which data are disseminated in each dataset: |
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13.1. Accuracy - overall | |||
Principally, administrative crime statistics indicates the registration and handling of cases by authorities such as Police, Prosecution and Courts. Also other National and Non-National Organization are involved in recording victims. Relative to the administrative data used, the accuracy is largely unknown. |
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13.2. Sampling error | |||
Not applicable - data are from administrative records. |
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13.3. Non-sampling error | |||
Data from administrative records are likely to contain some random errors (mistakes) as well as systematic errors (bias). |
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14.1. Timeliness | |||
The data for the reference year Y are requested for the 31th of July of year Y+1. After the validation checks have been applied to the data, the countries are consulted again to revise any inconsistencies or to provide additional reference metadata. In 2023 data colection (2022 data), 14 out of 27 countries provided the data by the deadline, while the last countries provided data in December 2023. |
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14.2. Punctuality | |||
Following data validation, the data are published on the Eurostat website, within 13 months of the reference year. No delay are foreseen in 2024. |
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15.1. Comparability - geographical | |||
Comparability in crime statistics is affected by many factors, such as differences in:
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15.2. Comparability - over time | |||
See the list of factors in 15.1. Changes in any of the factors can affect the comparability over time. |
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15.3. Coherence - cross domain | |||
Not examined. |
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15.4. Coherence - internal | |||
The internal coherence of the data is checked with basic validation rules (see section 18.4. Data validation). Figures for categories may not add up to the total, because information for some categories is unknown. |
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Not estimated. |
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17.1. Data revision - policy | |||
To further specify the general Eurostat revision policy, the following revision policy has been established for the crime domain. Revisions to the data are possible at any time, but only based on new data received from national contact. |
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17.2. Data revision - practice | |||
The revision practice effectively corresponds to the revision practice of the domain listed under sub concept 17.1 (data revision – policy). All reported errors (once validated) result in corrections of the disseminated data. Reported errors are corrected in the disseminated data as soon as the correct data have been validated. Data are only published once they are deemed to be sufficiently complete for all data providers. Whenever new data are provided and validated, the already disseminated data are updated. Aggregates and components are revised at the same time. |
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18.1. Source data | |||
There are several different data producing sources, such as Police, Prosecution, Courts, Ministry of the Interior, Ministry of Justice and other National or Non-National organization with regard to victims. The source data type is records in administrative registers. Comments by countries on the national system for registering victims BG: Provided data from the 'Police' include persons registrered as victims of THB by the Police. Provided data from 'National authorities (if not recorded by police)' is from the State Agency for Child Protection (SACP). The data include children victims of trafficking returning from abroad. CZ: Police of the Czech Republic does not register victims according to the Act on Victims of Crime, but as The object of the attack (man or woman). DE: The information is based on the reports submitted by the Land Criminal Police Offices, the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) and the Federal Police about police investigations into the relevant fields of crime which were concluded in Germany during the year under review and featured crime scenes in Germany. In autumn of 2016, an amendment implementing the Directive 2011/36/EU of the European Parliament and the Council on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings came into force. When this Directive was implemented, the German penal provisions on human trafficking (sections 232 ff. of the German Criminal Code) were re-defined and extended. In addition to sexual exploitation and labour exploitation, further forms of exploitation are also regulated by law since autumn of 2016, such as exploitation of forced begging, exploitation of forced criminality and organ harvesting.
Double counting of victims between police, prosecution and NGOs cannot be avoided (e.g. the same victim is registered by the police or prosecution and also by a victim assistance service). Double counts between different NGOs are not very likely because they generally tend to different victim groups (men/women/children), so the numbers were added in the respective sheets. LEFÖ-IBF as the recognized victims protection facility, working on behalf of the Ministry of Interior and the Federal Chancellery, offers unconditional assistance. On ground principle of confidentiality, LEFÖ-IBF can also identify a victim and offer the assistance in respect to the offer the woman wishes. Therefore, LEFÖ-IBF does not distinguish between identified or presumed victims. The collected data shows the overall assistance received from LEFÖ-IBF by women and girls in Austria. The formal identification is through the police.
PT: The Observatory on Trafficking in Human Beings (OTSH) starts to collect data from the moment of a presumed situation.
SI: State authorities and NGOs work together when victim is detected, however the Police is responsible for official identification of victims.
FI: Police information system
Comments by countries on Sources of data for each legal status BE: Suspects: Federal Police; victims: Immigration Office and specialized centers for victims, Prosecution - conviction: Board of General prosecutors + Justice dept. BG: Sources of data for victims are the Ministry of Interior (Police) and the State Agency for Child Protection (SACP). Source of data for suspected is the Ministry of Interior/Police.
The scope is metropolitan France and the overseas departments. In the previous questionnaires (before 2022), the scope also included the overseas communities (COM). The levels are therefore not comparable to previous ones. HR: Sources of data for victims - Ministry of Interior of Republic of Croatia and Office for Human Rights and Rights of National Minorities - Government of Republic of Croatia; Sources of data for suspected - Ministry of Interior of Republic of Croatia; Sources of data for prosecuted - State Attorneys Office of Republic of Croatia; Sources of data for convicted - Ministry of Justice and Publicc Administration of Republic of Croatia
More information on how EU countries identify persons involved in trafficking in human beings can be found at:
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18.2. Frequency of data collection | |||
Annual. |
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18.3. Data collection | |||
Eurostat forward a questionnaire to EU Member States. In each country, figures from different authorities (see 18.1 Sources of data for each legal status) are collected into one file by the National contact point. The files are sent to Eurostat by a common procedure, the Electronic Data File Administration and Management Information System (EDAMIS). Since UNODC data requests largely overlap, since 2022 Eurostat share the collected data with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime for the GLOTIP (Global Report on Trafficking in Persons). |
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18.4. Data validation | |||
The data are checked for completeness, internal consistency, and consistency over time and coherence with other relevant data sources, as follows: - The sum of the subtotals (e.g. male, female, other, unknown) should be sum up to the total. - The total of each legal status (victims, suspected, prosecuted, convicted) should be the same in the different breakdowns. - Large change from previous to current reference year - Consistency between the different legal status (victims, suspected, prosecuted, convicted) by using the attrition rate - Total empty tables, use of 0 and notes - Lack of information in metadata - Loss of completeness from previous year
Any issue revealed by the checking is pointed out to the national contact, by email. The national contact may either confirm the validity of data or send new data. No editing, estimation, imputation, weighting, seasonal adjustment, or other statistical modifications are carried out by Eurostat. |
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18.5. Data compilation | |||
EU total numbers and ratio per hundred inhabitants, according to responding countries, are published in crim_thb_sex dataset for victims, suspected and convicted traffickers, and for the brakdowns by sex. |
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18.6. Adjustment | |||
No adjustments are made. |
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None. |
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