The current publication is to serve as a baseline study on the data collection capacity and activity that currently exists and secondly as a springboard for future enhancement of data collection mechanisms in the region. The information presented was researched and compiled independently as a desk review and then subsequently verified and clarified in cooperation with government officials and agencies responsible. Therefore the study commissioned by the Council of the Baltic Sea States’ Task Force against Trafficking in Human Beings was never thought to be an independent study, but more of a fact-finding mission by the group as a self-assessment of the current state of play. Due to the large size of the document, it is only available online.