Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: The Secret World of Women as Seen by Men

Table 5

Socio-demographic description of sample and clusters.

	Cluster 1 (𝑛=646; 65.1%)		Cluster 2 (𝑛=347; 34.9%)		Total sample (𝑛=993)
	𝑁	%	𝑁	%	𝑁	%
Age
16–30 years	272	42.1	135	38.9	407	41.0
31–45 years	240	37.2	148	42.7	388	39.1
46–60 years	92	14.2	46	13.3	138	13.9
+60 years	42	6.5	18	5.2	60	6.0
Total	646	100.0	347	100.0	993	100.0
Occupation
Agriculture, livestock, and fishery sector	295	47.0	200	59.3	495	51.3
Services sector	146	23.3	53	15.7	199	20.6
Health professionals	49	7.8	18	5.3	67	7.0
Education professionals	45	7.2	30	8.9	75	7.8
Students	48	7.7	25	7.4	73	7.6
Other	44	7.0	11	3.3	55	5.7
Total	627	100.0	337	100.0	964	100.0
Ethnic group
Mandinka	382	59.8^∗	22	6.4	404	41.2
Wolof	9	1.4	186	54.4^∗	195	19.9
Fula	133	20.8^∗	40	11.7	173	17.6
Serahule	10	1.6	2	0.6	12	1.2
Djola	84	13.1^∗	11	3.2	95	9.7
Serer	9	1.4	49	14.3^∗	58	5.9
Other	12	1.9	32	9.4	44	4.5
Total	639	100.0	342	100.0	981	100.0
Religion
Muslim	608	98.5^∗	292	91.5	900	96.2
Christian	9	1.5	24	7.5^∗	33	3.5
Other	0	0.0	3	0.9	3	0.3
Total	617	100.0	319	100.0	936	100.0
Marital status
Married	450	73.8	250	75.5	700	74.4
Single	160	26.2	81	24.5	241	25.6
Total	610	100.0	331	100.0	941	100.0

∗Occurrence is significantly overrepresented in the given cluster than in the whole sample (𝑃<0.001).