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DATA IDENTIFICATION


Name
Proportion of girls and women aged 15-49 years who have undergone female genital mutilation /cutting, by age
Indicator purpose

The purpose of this indicator is to measure and track the number of girls and women aged 15-49 years who have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting.

Abstract

Proportion of girls and women aged 15-49 years who have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting is currently being measured by the proportion of girls aged 15-19 years who have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting. FGM/C is a violation of girls’ and women’s human rights. There is a large body of literature documenting the adverse health consequences of FGM/C over both the short and long term. The practice of FGM/C is a direct manifestation of gender inequality.

Data source

Statistical Institute of Belize (SIB)

DATA CHARACTERISTICS



Contact organization person

Statistical Institute of Belize (SIB)

Date last updated
02-OCT-2019
Periodicity

Annual

Unit of measure

Percentage (%)

Other characteristics

FGM/C is condemned by a number of international treaties and conventions. Since FGM/C is regarded as a traditional practice prejudicial to the health of children and is, in most cases, performed on minors, it violates the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Existing national legislation in many countries also include explicit bans against FGM/C.

DATA CONCEPTS and CLASSIFICATIONS



Classification used

Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) refers to “all procedures involving partial or total removal of the female external genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons".

Disaggregation

is by age, income, place of residence, geographic location, ethnicity, education.

Key statistical concepts

This is indicator is calculated by the number of girls and women aged 15-49 who have undergone FGM/C divided by the total number of girls and women aged 15-49 in the population multiplied by 100.

Formula
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OTHER ASPECTS



Recommended uses

This indicator helps the Ministry of Human Development to monitor the violation of girls’ and women’s human rights in respect to FGM/C.

Limitations

The estimates compiled and presented at global level come directly from nationally produced data and are not adjusted or recalculated.

Other comments

There are existing tools and mechanisms for data collection that countries have implemented to monitor the situation with regards to this indicator. The modules used to collect information on the circumcision status of girls aged 0-14 and women aged 15-49 in the DHS and MICS have been fully harmonized.

All the metadata shown in this document was gathered from United Nation Statistics Division. The metadata was extracted from https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/s.