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Table 3 Main characteristics of the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) selected for the analysis

From: The relationship between women’s individual empowerment and the support to female genital cutting continuation: a study on 7 African countries

Country

Year of the survey*

Original sample size

Original sample

References

Burkina Faso

2010

13,309

All women

Institut National de la Statistique et de la Démographie—INSD/Burkina Faso and ICF International (2012)

Ivory Coast

2011–2012

6195

All women

Institut National de la Statistique et de la Démographie—INSD/Burkina Faso and ICF International (2012)

Egypt

2014

20,399

Ever married

Ministry of Health and Population/Egypt—El-Zanaty and Associates/Egypt—ICF International (2015)

Ethiopia

2011

9,731

All women

Central Statistical Agency/Ethiopia and ICF International (2012)

Mali

2012–2013

8737

All women

Cellule de Planification et de Statistique—CPS/SSDSPF/Mali—Institut National de la Statistique—INSTAT/Mali—Centre d’Études et d’Information Statistiques—INFO-STAT/Mali and ICF International (2014)

Nigeria

2013

26,930

All women

National Population Commission—NPC/Nigeria and ICF International, (2014)

Togo

2013–2014

6230

All women

Ministère de la Planification du Développement et de l’Aménagement du Territoire—MPDAT/Togo—Ministère de la Santé—MS/Togo—ICF International (2015)

  1. *Selected surveys are part of the VI wave of investigation in each country