FCKNOWPROBE
(G101)
Ever heard of female circumcision (probed)
Codes and Frequencies
Description
FCKNOWPROBE (G101) indicates whether the woman acknowledged having heard about female circumcision, after being provided with a description of the practice. Women who did not answer "Yes" to FCKNOW (G100) were generally asked to provide a response to FCKNOWPROBE (G101).
Some samples consolidate the simple question and the descriptive probing question on the woman's awareness of female circumcision into one variable (See FCKNOW). FCKNOWPROBE (G101) was designed for samples that instead separate the two questions into distinct variables, with FCKNOW (G100) relating to the non-probing question and FCKNOWPROBE (G101) pertaining to the probing descriptive question.
Comparability
Apart from slight differences in question wording, FCKNOWPROBE (G101), is largely comparable across samples.
Researchers interested in woman's awareness of female circumcision should plan to use both FCKNOW (G100) and FCKNOWPROBE (G101) to maximize comparability across samples.
Comparability - Standard DHS
Questions about female circumcision are not included in the standard DHS, but the two-part question wording quoted above is used in all three versions of the standard DHS module about female circumcision. The supplementary text in the third version of the standard module states that the follow-up question is needed because "sometimes women may know what FGC is but know it by some other name."
Universe
- Benin 2006: Women age 15-49 who did not initially reply yes when asked whether they had heard of FC (without description of practice).
- Benin 2011: Women age 15-49 who did not initially reply yes when asked whether they had heard of FC (without description of practice).
- Burkina Faso 2010: Women age 15-49 who did not initially reply yes when asked whether they had heard of FC (without description of practice).
- Cameroon 2004: Women age 15-49 who were selected and interviewed for the FC module, and who did not initially reply yes when asked whether they had heard of FC (without description of practice).
- Chad 2004: Women age 15-49 who did not initially reply yes when asked whether they had heard of FC (without description of practice).
- Chad 2014: Women age 15-49, in households not selected for the male survey, who did not initially reply yes when asked whether they had heard of FC (without description of practice).
- Cote d'Ivoire 2011: Women age 15-49 who did not initially reply yes when asked whether they had heard of FC (without description of practice).
- Ethiopia 2016: Women age 15-49 who were selected and interviewed for the FC module, and who did not initially reply yes when asked whether they had heard of FC (without description of practice).
- Gambia 2013: Women age 15-49 who did not initially reply yes when asked whether they had heard of FC (without description of practice).
- Gambia 2019: Women age 15-49, in households selected for the long questionnaire, who did not initially reply yes when asked whether they had heard of FC (without description of practice).
- Guinea 2012: Women age 15-49 who did not initially reply yes when asked whether they had heard of FC (without description of practice).
- Guinea 2018: Women age 15-49 who did not initially reply yes when asked whether they had heard of FC (without description of practice).
- Kenya 2008: Women age 15-49 who did not initially reply yes when asked whether they had heard of FC (without description of practice).
- Kenya 2014: Women age 15-49, in households selected for the long questionnaire, who did not initially reply yes when asked whether they had heard of FC (without description of practice).
- Liberia 2019: Women age 15-49 who did not initially reply yes when asked whether they had heard of FC (without description of practice).
- Mali 2006: Women age 15-49 who did not initially reply yes when asked whether they had heard of FC (without description of practice).
- Mali 2012: Women age 15-49 who did not initially reply yes when asked whether they had heard of FC (without description of practice).
- Mali 2018: Women age 15-49 who did not initially reply yes when asked whether they had heard of FC (without description of practice).
- Niger 2006: Women age 15-49 who did not initially reply yes when asked whether they had heard of FC (without description of practice).
- Niger 2012: Women age 15-49 who did not initially reply yes when asked whether they had heard of FC (without description of practice).
- Nigeria 2008: Women age 15-49 who did not initially reply yes when asked whether they had heard of FC (without description of practice).
- Senegal 2010: Women age 15-49 who did not initially reply yes when asked whether they had heard of FC (without description of practice).
- Senegal 2014: Women age 15-49 who did not initially reply yes when asked whether they had heard of FC (without description of practice).
- Senegal 2015: Women age 15-49 who did not initially reply yes when asked whether they had heard of FC (without description of practice).
- Senegal 2016: Women age 15-49 who did not initially reply yes when asked whether they had heard of FC (without description of practice).
- Senegal 2017: Women age 15-49 who did not initially reply yes when asked whether they had heard of FC (without description of practice).
- Sierra Leone 2008: Women age 15-49 who did not initially reply yes when asked whether they had heard of FC (without description of practice).
- Sierra Leone 2013: Women age 15-49 who did not initially reply yes when asked whether they had heard of FC (without description of practice).
- Sierra Leone 2019: Women age 15-49 who did not initially reply yes when asked whether they had heard of FC (without description of practice).
- Tanzania 2010: Women age 15-49 who did not initially reply yes when asked whether they had heard of FC (without description of practice).
- Tanzania 2015: Women age 15-49 who did not initially reply yes when asked whether they had heard of FC (without description of practice).
- Togo 2013: Women age 15-49 who did not initially reply yes when asked whether they had heard of FC (without description of practice).
- Uganda 2011: Women age 15-49 who did not initially reply yes when asked whether they had heard of FC (without description of practice).
- Uganda 2016: Women age 15-49 who did not initially reply yes when asked whether they had heard of FC (without description of practice).
- Yemen 2013: Women age 15-49 who did not initially reply yes when asked whether they had heard of FC (without description of practice).
