Timeframe
2024-2025
Funding
University of Cincinnati
COMPASS staff
Barry Milne
Lisa Underwood
Collaborators
University of Cincinnati
Aaron Murnan
JC Barnes
Community partners
Te Waka Kaimahi Kairau o Aotearoa | The New Zealand Sex Workers’ Collective
Description
The decriminalization of sex work in Aotearoa New Zealand through the Prostitution Reform Act 2003 (PRA) has been uniformly hailed as a success, through protecting the rights of those in the sex work industry and by preventing social harms. Despite this, other countries and states investigating decriminalization often confront sceptics who seek ‘hard’ evidence of the impact of the reform on health, justice and other outcomes. This project seeks to assess the feasibility of identifying sex workers using the range of administrative data sources in Statistics New Zealand’s Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI), to see whether routinely collected data on health, justice, and other outcomes improved for sex workers following the PRA.