The female streetwalker prostitutes of Iloilo City: Their reasons for engaging in prostitution and their present economic, health, and sociopsychological conditions

Abstract

The study aimed to find out why some women became prostitutes, to determine the demographic and educational characteristics of the prostitutes’ own or their parents’ family; and to find out the present economic, health, and sociopsycho-logical conditions of the prostitutes.

Using a descriptive research design, quantitative and qualitative data were gathered by the researcher, from the streetwalker prostitutes of Iloilo City with the help of two hired interviewers and by the researcher. The first two respondents were identified with the help of informants, the succeeding respondents were located with the use of snowballing technique until a quota of 30 sample cases were obtained.