Table 4.
Sample Characteristics
| Senegalese Women | Senegalese Husbands | |
|---|---|---|
| Number of respondents | 265 | 82 |
| Age range | 18–40 years | 22–73 years |
| Muslim (%) | 97.7 | 98 |
| School attendance (%) | ||
| None | 17.8 | 8.5 |
| Arabic school only* | 31.4 | 25.6 |
| Primary school | 33.0 | 23.1 |
| Secondary school | 15.9 | 25.6 |
| College | 1.9 | 17.1 |
| Ethnicity (%) | ||
| Mandinka | 28.3 | 33 |
| Wolof | 15.1 | 17 |
| Fula | 18.1 | 16 |
| Serer | 32.1 | 23 |
| Other | 6.4 | 11 |
| Families that traditionally practiced FGC (%) | ||
| Mandinka | 93.3 | 100 |
| Wolof | 2.5 | 0 |
| Fula | 52.1 | 54 |
| Serer | 36.5 | 32 |
| Overall | 52.1 | 57 |
| Interethnic marriage (%) | 34.0 | 32 |
| FGC-incongruent marriage† (%) | 14.0 | 20 |
*
Arabic school only: the respondent’s only formal schooling was religious education.
†
Husband’s circumcision tradition does not match wife’s tradition.
FGC, female genital cutting.