Percentage of women (or men) age 15-49 who have heard of female circumcision.
Coverage:
Population base: Women (or men) age 15-49 (IR file, MR file)
Time period: Current status at time of survey
Numerator: Number of women (or men) age 15-49 who have heard of female circumcision (women: g100 = 1 or g101 = 1; men: mg100 = 1 or mg101 = 1)
Denominator: Number of women (or men) age 15-49
Variables: IR file, MR file.
|
g100 |
Ever heard of female circumcision (women) |
|
g101 |
Ever heard of genital cutting (probed) (women) |
|
v005 |
Women's sample weight |
|
mg100 |
Ever heard of female circumcision (men) |
|
mg101 |
Ever heard of genital cutting (probed) (men) |
|
mv005 |
Men's sample weight |
Numerator divided by the denominator, multiplied by 100.
Missing values are not included in the numerator but kept in the denominator.
A respondent is asked whether they have heard of female circumcision. If they responded that they have not heard of female circumcision, they are asked a further probing question asking whether they have heard of a practice where a female’s genitals are cut. This is why both questions (variables g100 and g101) must be taken into account when estimating the prevalence of respondents who have ever heard of FGC.
In DHS-6 on, the FGC variables have become standardized, and the variable series often starts with g100 – “Ever heard of female circumcision”. In previous surveys and with some exceptions in more recent surveys, other variable names have been used. See below for a summary of the name of the variable equivalent to g100. The variable prefix (i.e., ‘fg’ for variable fg100) of the variables shown in the table below be the prefix for the following FGC variables in any survey.
|
First variable in variable series |
Individual data files from past surveys (please see the section on Recode File Names in Chapter 1 to understand the naming of data files) |
|
fg100 |
BJIR41, BFIR43, EGIR4A, EGIR42, ETIR41, ETIR51, GNIR52, MLIR41, NGIR4B, SNIR4H, TZIR4I |
|
s901 |
BFIR31 |
|
s801 |
EGIR33, EGIR51 |
|
v901 |
GNIR41 |
|
s1001 |
CMIR44, KEIR3A, TZIR3A |
|
s551 |
MLIR32, NIIR31 |
|
g121_01 |
SNIR6D |
|
s227 |
SDIR02 |
|
s1101 |
SZIR51 |
|
s730f |
UGIR7B |
Hayford, S. R. 2005. “Conformity and Change: Community Effects on Female Genital Cutting in Kenya”. Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 46(2): 121–140. https://asu.pure.elsevier.com/en/publications/conformity-and-change-community-effects-on-female-genital-cutting
DHS-8 Tabulation plan: Table FGC.1
API Indicator IDs:
Women:
FG_KFCC_W_HFC
Men:
FG_KFCC_M_HFC