Table 9 Men’s attitude toward marrying circumcised women and their desire to have their future daughters circumcised
Men’s attitude | Number & percentageN(%) | Planned or preference to circumcise future daughters | P-valuea | ||
NoN(%) | YesN(%) | ||||
Importance of marrying circumcised woman | Not Important | 105 (59) | 88 (62.4) | 17 (45.9) | < 0.001 |
Slightly Important | 31 (17.4) | 30 (21.3) | 1 (2.7) | ||
Moderately Important | 19 (10.7) | 10 (7.1) | 9 (24.3) | ||
Important | 8 (4.5) | 6 (4.3) | 2 (5.4) | ||
Very Important | 15 (8.4) | 7 (5.0) | 8 (21.6) | ||
Men’s attitude | Number & percentageN(%) | Planned or preference to circumcise future daughters | P-value | ||
NoN(%) | YesN(%) | ||||
Refusing to marry uncircumcised woman | Definitely not | 97 (56.7) | 82 (60.3) | 15 (42.9) | 0.163 |
Probably not | 30 (17.5) | 19 (14.0) | 11 (31.4) | ||
Probably | 23 (13.5) | 18 (13.2) | 5 (14.3) | ||
Very probably | 7 (4.1) | 6 (4.4) | 1 (2.9) | ||
Definitely | 14 (8.2) | 11 (8.1) | 3 (8.6) | ||