Measuring Human Trafficking
Prevalence in Construction: A Field Test of Multiple Estimation
Methods
New
collection (Request for a new OMB Control Number)
No
Regular
03/28/2022
Requested
Previously Approved
26 Months From Approved
2,100
0
1,050
0
0
0
Human trafficking casts a wide net of
harm, negatively affecting individuals, families, public safety,
the healthcare system, and the criminal legal system. Stakeholders,
including policymakers, service providers, health care providers,
law enforcement officers, and courtroom actors, involved in
anti-trafficking efforts need data to inform their responses to
human trafficking within their communities. A critical first step
towards mobilizing efforts that best serve trafficking victims
involves a better understanding of the scope and nature of the
problem. However, calculating an estimate of human trafficking
victims has proven to be a difficult and monumental task. There is
growing recognition that it is necessary to improve the
methodologies used to generate such estimates, a task that was even
called for in a January 2020 Executive Order Combating Human
Trafficking and Online Child Exploitation in the United States
(Executive Order 13903, 2020). To advance knowledge of promising
methods for estimating human trafficking prevalence, the Office of
Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE), in collaboration with
the Office on Trafficking in Persons (OTIP), within the
Administration of Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services seeks Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) approval for a one-time survey of construction
workers in one U.S. geographic location. Study findings will be
used to inform future prevalence estimation research as well as
policy, programs, and practices intended to prevent, identify, and
respond to labor trafficking in the construction industry. The
survey will be administered to construction workers in Houston,
Texas. This study is not intended to promote statistical
generalization to other sites or industries.
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with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
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