Baseline characteristics stratified by accessing sex worker community services and accessing health services in the last 6 months among women sex workers (N=652) in Metro Vancouver, Canada (2014–2022)
| Total (%) | Accessed sex worker community services in the past 6 months (baseline) | Accessed health services in the past 6 months (baseline) | |||||
| Yes (%) | No (%) | P value | Yes (%) | No (%) | P value | ||
| n=365 | n=286 | n=561 | n=89 | ||||
| Age (Median, IQR) | 39 (31–46) | 38 (31–46) | 39 (32–46) | 0.97 | 39 (31–46) | 40 (31–45) | 0.45 |
| Race | <0.001 | 0.077 | |||||
| Asian* | 147 (22.6) | 121 (82.3) | 26 (17.7) | 118 (80.3) | 28 (19) | ||
| Non-Asian racialised | 297 (45.6) | 109 (36.7) | 188 (63.3) | 258 (86.9) | 38 (12.8) | ||
| White | 208 (31.9) | 135 (64.9) | 72 (34.6) | 185 (88.9) | 23 (11.1) | ||
| Sexual minority | 293 (44.9) | 182 (62.1) | 111 (37.9) | 0.3 | 248 (84.6) | 45 (15.4) | 0.006 |
| Primary place of sex work | 0.006 | <0.001 | |||||
| Outdoor/public space | 166 (25.5) | 138 (83.1) | 28 (16.9) | 137 (82.5) | 29 (17.5) | ||
| Informal indoor venue | 202 (30.9) | 141 (69.8) | 60 (29.7) | 178 (88.1) | 24 (11.9) | ||
| Formal indoor venue | 127 (19.5) | 22 (17.3) | 105 (82.7) | 101 (79.5) | 25 (19.7) | ||
| No sex work† | 144 (22) | 57 (39.6) | 87 (60.4) | 133 (92.4) | 10 6.9) | ||
| Any non-injection drug use | 0.09 | <0.001 | |||||
| Yes | 306 (46.9) | 223 (72.9) | 83 (27.1) | 256 (83.4) | 50 (16.3) | ||
| Born in Canada | 491 (75.3) | 328 (66.8) | 162 (33) | 0.02 | 432 (88) | 58 (11.8) | <0.001 |
| Time since migration to Canada | 0.006 | <0.001 | |||||
| Non-migrant | 491 (75.3) | 328 (66.8) | 162 (33) | 432 (88) | 58 (11.8) | ||
| Recent migrant (≤5 years) | 57 (8.7) | 5 (8.7) | 52 (91.3) | 41 (71.9) | 16 (28.1) | ||
| Long-term migrant (>5 years) | 92 (14.1) | 28 (30.4) | 64 (69.6) | 78 (84.8) | 13 (14.1) | ||
| Graduated high school | 336 (51.5) | 154 (45.8) | 181 (53.9) | 0.11 | 282 (83.9) | 53 (15.8) | <0.001 |
| Sex work as main income† | 435 (66.7) | 263 (60.5) | 171 (39.3) | 0.21 | 369 (84.8) | 65 (14.9) | 0.001 |
| Any unstable housing† | 519 (79.6) | 334 (64.4) | 184 (35.5) | 0.26 | 451 (86.9) | 67 (12.9) | <0.001 |
| Limited English fluency | 66 (10.1) | 56 (84.8) | 10 (15.2) | 0.01 | 50 (75.8) | 16 (24.2) | <0.001 |
| Data collected during COVID-19 | 14 (2.2) | 11 (78.6) | 2 (14.3) | 0.71 | 13 (92.9) | 1 (7.1) | 0.046 |
The total sums of cells may not always add up to 100% due to missing data. The two outcome variables, accessing sex worker community services and accessing health services contain 1 and 2 missing values, respectively; four independent variables, primary place of sex work, any non-injection drug use, time since migration to Canada and sex work as main income, contain 13, 3, 12 and 23 missing values, respectively.
*Of all Asian respondents, ~95% were of East Asian descent.
†In the last 6 months.