PP20 Estimating the numbers of women and girls with female genital mutilation in england and wales (2015)
This study is a Descriptive research regarding All FGM/C with the following characteristics:
Author(s): Macfarlane AJ, Dorkenoo E
FGM/C Type(s): All
Health area of focus: N/A.
Objective: To produce indirect estimates of ;Numbers of women with FGM living in England and Wales as a whole and in each local authority area in 2011,numbers of women with FGM living in England and Wales and in each local authority area giving birth each year from 2000 to 2013,numbers of daughters born to women born in FGM-practicing countries resident in England and Wales and in each local authority area.
Study Population: Relied on DHS datasets
Findings: In 2011,an estimated 103,000 women aged 15–49,24,000 women aged 50 and over 10,000 girls aged under 15 with FGM and born in FGM practising countries were living in England and Wales. Three fifths of these women were born in countries where FGM is nearly universal. Although many lived in Greater London and major cities,there were women born in these countries living in every local authority district. An estimated 1.5 per cent of women giving birth in England and Wales since 2008 had undergone FGM. And an estimated 60,000 girls aged 0–14 in 2011 were born to mothers with FGM
Geographical coverage
Region(s):Northern Europe
Country(ies):United Kingdom