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Where the above table shows actual dollar figures, 43 the table below provides percentile figures (e.g.,
drugs accounted for 0.98% of Dallas’s cash economy in 2007).
Table 3.21 Estimates of UCE for Sex, Drugs and Guns (percent)
City Year Weapons Drugs Other Sex
Atlanta 2003 1.13 0.70 96.59 1.59
Atlanta 2007 0.88 0.70 96.67 1.75
Dallas 2003 0.99 0.77 97.66 0.57
Dallas 2007 0.88 0.98 97.64 0.51
Denver 2003 0.77 0.72 97.90 0.62
Denver 2007 0.59 0.80 98.10 0.50
Miami 2003 0.67 0.59 96.84 1.91
Miami 2007 0.78 0.63 97.04 1.55
San Diego 2003 0.53 1.19 96.86 1.42
San Diego 2007 0.53 1.07 97.32 1.08
Seattle 2003 0.83 0.87 97.81 0.50
Seattle 2007 0.50 0.73 97.84 0.93
DC 2003 0.83 0.62 97.70 0.85
DC 2007 0.77 0.50 98.23 0.50
1.6.1. Sex (UCSE) Rankings
Here we present the data from the previous table, slightly differently, showing the rank ordering of cities
based on the estimated UCSE size in 2003 and 2007.
City
Year
Sex
(millions)
Normalized
Miami 2003 $302 7.6
Atlanta 2003 $238 6.0
DC 2003 $155 3.9
San Diego 2003 $124 3.1
Dallas 2003 $99.4 2.5
Seattle 2003 $50.3 1.3
Denver 2003 $47.2 1.2
Atlanta 2007 $290 7.3
Miami 2007 $235 5.9
Seattle 2007 $112 2.8
DC 2007 $103 2.6
Dallas 2007 $98.8 2.5
San Diego 2007 $96.6 2.4
Denver 2007 $39.9 1.0
43 All dollar figures are in terms of chained 2005 dollars.
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