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Table 6 Perceptions of community beliefs regarding drug trafficking and ADTS

From: Personal beliefs and social norms regarding the sexual exploitation of girls in age-disparate transactional sexual relationships in Brazil: a mixed-methods study

 

Responses

Age group

Gender

Phrases

Most people or everyone

Half

Few or no one

No answer

Df = 12

Df = 5

How many people in your community believe that…

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

x2, p-value

x2, p-value

A girl can refuse to get involved with a trafficker that wants to be with her

227 (55.10)

60 (14.6)

98 (23.8)

27 (6.5)

11.111, 0.519

15.832, < 0.001

Families of the girls involved with men can ask for help from the traffickers

151 (36.7)

73 (17.7)

146 (35.4)

42 (10.2)

12.519, 0.405

5.025, 0.170

Men who get involved with girls of 12 years old or younger will be punished by traffickers because of this relationship

133 (32.3)

79 (19.2)

150 (36.4)

50 (12.1)

10.125, 0.605

7.223, 0.065

Men who get involved with girls of 13 to 14 years old will be punished by traffickers because of this relationship

117 (28.4)

72 (17.5)

172 (41.7)

51 (12.4)

9.513, 0.659

4.658, 0.199

Men who get involved with girls of 15 years old or older will be punished by traffickers because of this relationship

65 (15.8)

60 (14.6)

234 (56.8)

53 (12.9)

10.896, 0.538

4.933, 0.177

Girls like men involved in drug trafficking because they are able to financially support girls

237 (57.5)

57 (13.8)

85 (20.6)

33 (8.0)

13.693, 0.321

4.504, 0.212

Girls like men involved with trafficking because they are powerful in the community

259 (62.9)

49 (11.9)

75 (18.2)

29 (7.0)

11.627, 0.476

6.124, 0.106

Girls that are involved with men in drug trafficking have a superior status

223 (54.1)

64 (15.5)

95 (23.1)

30 (7.3)

14.402, 0.276

5.737, 0.125