Conformity and change: community effects Female Genital Cutting in Kenya (2005)
This study is a Descriptive research regarding All FGM/C with the following characteristics:
Author(s): Sarah R. Hayford
FGM/C Type(s): All
Health area of focus: None.
Objective: To analyze women’s decisions to have their daughters circumcised based on data from 7,873 women in Kenya collected in the 1998 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey.
Study Population: Women
Findings: The study found some support for modernization theories,which argue that economic development leads to gradual erosion of the practice of female circumcision. However,more community-level variation is explained by the convention hypothesis,which proposes that the prevalence of female circumcision will decline rapidly once parents see that a critical mass of other parents have stopped circumcising their daughters. I also find substantial variation among different ethnic groups in the pace and onset of the decline of female genital cutting.
Geographical coverage
Region(s):Eastern Africa
Country(ies):Kenya