Female Genital Cutting and Coming of Age in Guinea (English, French)

Document Type

Qualitative Research Studies

Publication Topic(s)

Gender, Female Genital Cutting

Country(s)

Guinea

Language

English,French

Author(s)

P. Stanley Yoder, Papa Ousmane Camara, Baba Soumaoro

Publication Date

December 1999

Publication ID

QRS2

Abstract:

The study of female genital cutting (FGC) in Guinea was conducted mainly to better understand how to ask and answer questions about types of FGC in a DHS survey. Through interviews with more than 400 women in the four main languages of Guinea, the study found that women described four types of cutting familiar to them. By using these descriptions of cutting as pre-coded answers to a question about type in the 1999 DHS survey in Guinea, DHS obtained rich and detailed data on FGC type in Guinea.