Thailand placed 20th out of 167 countries in Global Slavery Index

[dabhand]

Just looked up the actual ranking details:

http://www.globalslaveryindex.org/findings/

Based on their figures, the ranking of Thailand should actually be joint 56th - not 20th - out of 167 countries (a more precise calculation shows Thailand in 58th place). Bad enough but not quite the headline grabber as noted in the article.

They have made the schoolboy error of simply advancing to the next number even where there are a number of countries with the same ranking number.

If they can't get that simple calculation correct...............

On the list Thailand is joint 20th, along with those countries (there are 8 of them) who have been estimated to have the same percentage of their populations (0.626%) in slavery as Thailand.

Please let everyone else know what the "precise calculation", which you have made and they have not, is.

Perhaps you might like to count just how many countries have a higher % than Thailand in the applicable list. That is, from North Korea down to Liberia. Actually, I will save you the bother. It is 55 countries. By any reckoning, that places Thailand at, per the list, joint 56th place.

To take it to an extreme example, should all 55 countries above Thailand have had the same %, that would have placed Thailand in 2nd place? Clearly nonsense, as is the ranking indicated by the GSI Index.

As for the precise calculation giving Thailand 58th place. This requires the use of an excel spreadsheet, or similar, and copying the data from the list to give a % figure which has more digits (7no) after the decimal point than is shown on the data list (rounded to 3no after the decimal point)..

Quite simple really.

[Winniedapu]

Don't forget the so called 'maids' the so called 'elite' have. These are usually treated just like slaves. If anyone remembers the show ' Upstairs , Downstairs' from the UK years ago, those servants were treated much better than modern day servants in Thailand. The rich have such a bad attitude towards people they think are below them that their workers are nothing but slaves.

Do you have anything backing this up?

Yes! Seen it myself.

Me too, Unfortunately. It made me very cross.

W

[Winniedapu]

Just looked up the actual ranking details:

http://www.globalslaveryindex.org/findings/

Based on their figures, the ranking of Thailand should actually be joint 56th - not 20th - out of 167 countries (a more precise calculation shows Thailand in 58th place). Bad enough but not quite the headline grabber as noted in the article.

They have made the schoolboy error of simply advancing to the next number even where there are a number of countries with the same ranking number.

If they can't get that simple calculation correct...............

On the list Thailand is joint 20th, along with those countries (there are 8 of them) who have been estimated to have the same percentage of their populations (0.626%) in slavery as Thailand.

Please let everyone else know what the "precise calculation", which you have made and they have not, is.

Perhaps you might like to count just how many countries have a higher % than Thailand in the applicable list. That is, from North Korea down to Liberia. Actually, I will save you the bother. It is 55 countries. By any reckoning, that places Thailand at, per the list, joint 56th place.

To take it to an extreme example, should all 55 countries above Thailand have had the same %, that would have placed Thailand in 2nd place? Clearly nonsense, as is the ranking indicated by the GSI Index.

As for the precise calculation giving Thailand 58th place. This requires the use of an excel spreadsheet, or similar, and copying the data from the list to give a % figure which has more digits (7no) after the decimal point than is shown on the data list (rounded to 3no after the decimal point)..

Quite simple really.

Maybe, maybe not. This seems like a fairly simple mistake, one which I would not have expected.

There may be more to the calculation than you know about?

W

[Bender]

Just looked up the actual ranking details:

http://www.globalslaveryindex.org/findings/

Based on their figures, the ranking of Thailand should actually be joint 56th - not 20th - out of 167 countries (a more precise calculation shows Thailand in 58th place). Bad enough but not quite the headline grabber as noted in the article.

They have made the schoolboy error of simply advancing to the next number even where there are a number of countries with the same ranking number.

If they can't get that simple calculation correct...............

On the list Thailand is joint 20th, along with those countries (there are 8 of them) who have been estimated to have the same percentage of their populations (0.626%) in slavery as Thailand.

Please let everyone else know what the "precise calculation", which you have made and they have not, is.

Perhaps you might like to count just how many countries have a higher % than Thailand in the applicable list. That is, from North Korea down to Liberia. Actually, I will save you the bother. It is 55 countries. By any reckoning, that places Thailand at, per the list, joint 56th place.

To take it to an extreme example, should all 55 countries above Thailand have had the same %, that would have placed Thailand in 2nd place? Clearly nonsense, as is the ranking indicated by the GSI Index.

As for the precise calculation giving Thailand 58th place. This requires the use of an excel spreadsheet, or similar, and copying the data from the list to give a % figure which has more digits (7no) after the decimal point than is shown on the data list (rounded to 3no after the decimal point)..

Quite simple really.

you should seek a job in the thai govt...

[dabhand]

Just looked up the actual ranking details:

http://www.globalslaveryindex.org/findings/

Based on their figures, the ranking of Thailand should actually be joint 56th - not 20th - out of 167 countries (a more precise calculation shows Thailand in 58th place). Bad enough but not quite the headline grabber as noted in the article.

They have made the schoolboy error of simply advancing to the next number even where there are a number of countries with the same ranking number.

If they can't get that simple calculation correct...............

On the list Thailand is joint 20th, along with those countries (there are 8 of them) who have been estimated to have the same percentage of their populations (0.626%) in slavery as Thailand.

Please let everyone else know what the "precise calculation", which you have made and they have not, is.

Perhaps you might like to count just how many countries have a higher % than Thailand in the applicable list. That is, from North Korea down to Liberia. Actually, I will save you the bother. It is 55 countries. By any reckoning, that places Thailand at, per the list, joint 56th place.

To take it to an extreme example, should all 55 countries above Thailand have had the same %, that would have placed Thailand in 2nd place? Clearly nonsense, as is the ranking indicated by the GSI Index.

As for the precise calculation giving Thailand 58th place. This requires the use of an excel spreadsheet, or similar, and copying the data from the list to give a % figure which has more digits (7no) after the decimal point than is shown on the data list (rounded to 3no after the decimal point)..

Quite simple really.

Maybe, maybe not. This seems like a fairly simple mistake, one which I would not have expected.

There may be more to the calculation than you know about?

W

Nope, no maybe about it. It is a very simple calculation (given slavery numbers as a % of given population), but I have no problem with GSI using a rounded version of the % calculation. Those are correctly stated, given the GSI presentation of the %'s. My, more precise calculation, was done because I obviously have too much time on my hands.

However, my beef is that the rankings generated by the GSI %'s are not correct - for the very reason that I gave in my previous comment. There are no ifs or buts, the rankings are not correctly stated. To have Thailand noted as being in joint 20th position when there are clearly 55 countries, based on the GSI calculations, with a higher GSI % is just plain nonsense.

As you mention, it is a simple mistake and it is certainly surprising that GSI have made such a basic error.