Hierarchical modelling of factors associated with the practice and perpetuation of female genital mutilation in the next generation of women in Africa

Adeniyi Francis Fagbamigbe, Imran Oludare Morhason-Bello, Yusuf Olushola Kareem and Erhabor Sunday Idemudia

PLOS ONE, 2021, vol. 16, issue 4, 1-18

Abstract: Despite a total prohibition on the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM), young girls continue to be victims in some African countries. There is a paucity of data on the effect of FGM practice in two generations in Africa. This study assessed the current practice of daughters’ FGM among women living in 14 FGM-prone countries in Africa as a proxy to assess the future burden of FGM in the continent. We used Demographic and Health Surveys data collected between 2010 and 2018 from 14 African countries. We analyzed information on 93,063 women-daughter pair (Level 1) from 8,396 communities (Level 2) from the 14 countries (Level 3). We fitted hierarchical multivariable binomial logistic regression models using the MLWin 3.03 module in Stata version 16 at p

Date: 2021
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