Codes and Frequencies
Description
FCPROOTH (G117X) indicates whether the woman gave some other response when asked an open-ended question about benefits for the girl from female circumcision. The meaning of "other" depends on the specific benefits to the girl included in a given sample.
Comparability — Index
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Comparability
Along with universe differences, the meaning of "other" in FCPROOTH (G117X) varies across samples (due to differences in the number of specific responses listed for surveys).
Comparability - Standard DHS
FCPROOTH (G117X) is included in phases I and II of the standard DHS module for female circumcision. The first version uses the following question wording: "What benefits do girls themselves get if they undergo this genital cutting?" The second changed the wording to "What benefits do girls themselves get if they are circumcised?" Question wording in samples vary based on these variations in the DHS module.
Comparability — Yemen [top]
The 2013 Yemen survey asks, "Why do you intend to have any of your daughters circumcised? Any other reasons?" The 1991 Yemen survey asked respondents who approved of female circumcision why they approved.
Universe
- Benin 2001: Women age 15-49 who have heard of FC.
- Benin 2006: Women age 15-49 who have heard of FC.
- Burkina Faso 2003: Women age 15-49 who have heard of FC.
- Cameroon 2004: Women age 15-49 who were selected and interviewed for the FC module, and who have heard of FC.
- Chad 2004: Women age 15-49 who have heard of FC.
- Egypt 2000: Ever-married women age 15-49 who have heard of FC.
- Gambia 2019: Women age 15-49 who have heard of female circumcision, in households selected for the long questionnaire
- Guinea 1999: Women age 15-49 who have heard of FC.
- Guinea 2005: All women age 15-49.
- Kenya 2008: Women age 15-49 who have heard of FC.
- Mali 2001: Women age 15-49 who have heard of FC.
- Mali 2006: Women age 15-49 who have heard of FC.
- Niger 2006: Women age 15-49 who have heard of FC.
- Niger 2012: Women age 15-49 who have heard of FC.
- Nigeria 2003: Women age 15-49 who have heard of FC.
- Nigeria 2008: Women age 15-49 who have heard of FC.
- Senegal 2005: All women age 15-49.
- Sierra Leone 2008: Women age 15-49 who have heard of FC.
- Sierra Leone 2013: Women age 15-49 who have heard of FC.
- Yemen 1991: Ever-married women age 15-54 who approve of FC.
- Yemen 2013: Women age 15-49 who have heard of FC.
