Reported Male Circumcision Practices in a Muslim-Majority Setting

Table 1

Demographic characteristics of participants, .

Age in years; median (IQR)
Father	36 (30–40.2)
Mother	28 (25–32)
Overall	31 (26–38)
Ethnicity; (%)
Urdu speaking	216 (43.2)
Punjabi/Saraiki/Hazara	136 (27.2)
Sindhi	59 (11.8)
Pakhtoon	37 (7.4)
Balochi	11 (2.2)
Others	41 (8.2)
Formal years of education; mean (SD)
Fathers’ education	6.6 (4.7)
Mothers’ education	5.3 (4.9)
Circumcision status; (%)
Circumcised	728 (76.3)
Uncircumcised	226 (23.7)
Delay, overall	516 (54.1)
(i) Among circumcised subjects	306 (42.0)
(ii) Among uncircumcised subjects	210 (92.9)
Circumcision age, overall, months
Median (IQR)	1 (0.27–12)
Min–Max	0.03–156
Circumcision age – among those with delay
Median (IQR)	12 (7–36)
Min–Max	2.5–156
Circumcision age, among those with no delay
Median (IQR)	0.42 (0.23–1)
Min–Max	0.03–2
Age parent’s perceived a delay had occurred
Months, median (IQR)	7 (6–24)
Cost of circumcising a child,
Median (IQR)	300 (200–500)
Min–Max	0–3000

USD 1 = PKR 104 (July 2016).