Every single survey on human trafficking is designed to produce false positives. One-third of the trafficking victims identified by the ILO estimate are women and men in arranged marriages.
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But wait it gets worse. The way researchers collect this data is bananas. First, they only carry out surveys in countries where they& #39;re likely to find forced marriages.

Second, they don& #39;t just ask respondents about their own experiences. They also ask whether children, parents or siblings have been in forced marriages. This results in double-counting and makes it harder to assess whether they consented to the marriage .

Third, and this is NUTS, the researchers treat any refusal to answer a question as evidence of forced marriage!

Any defensible survey methodology would include a separate category for "refused to answer." The ILO treats those as evidence of trafficking!

The *only* reason to make these choices is to get the numbers as high as possible. These extremely important caveats appear in a separate document from the main findings in the detailed methodology section. Page 74. Unbelievable.