Table 1 Distribution of circumcised women according to 5-year birth cohort by background characteristics
Background variables | 5-year cohort according to year of birth | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1959–1963 | 1964–1968 | 1969–1973 | 1974–1978 | 1979–1983 | 1984–1988 | 1989–1993 | 1994–1998 | 1999–2003 | |
n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | |
Total | 966(56.3) | 1297(48.7) | 770(45.5) | 683(39.7) | 686(34.2) | 676(31.2) | 708(28.3) | 596(25.5) | 669(28.4) |
Religion | 73.2* | 170.6* | 85.6* | 42.9* | 13.7** | 13.8** | 4.4ns | 4.2ns | 25.2* |
Christian | 653(62.7) | 873(59.7) | 556(54.6) | 431(46.7) | 403(37.3) | 377(34.9) | 353(30.4) | 246(24.5) | 253(23.8) |
Islam | 263(43.0) | 394(34.2) | 210(31.7) | 250(31.8) | 282(31.0) | 296(27.6) | 351(26.6) | 350(26.4) | 415(32.6) |
Others | 50(78.1) | 30(62.5) | 4(36.4) | 2(14.3) | 1(6.7) | 3(25.0) | 4(23.5) | 0(0.0) | 1(7.1) |
Ethnicity | 304.5* | 548.3* | 351.6* | 244.6* | 233.9* | 227.8* | 238.7* | 150.5* | 130.9* |
Hausa/F | 103(35.6) | 234(30.0) | 117(27.3) | 144(26.7) | 165(27.2) | 203(27.0) | 247(26.3) | 268(27.2) | 317(33.7) |
Igbo | 317(80.5) | 366(74.7) | 318(67.7) | 189(53.7) | 196(48.8) | 199(46.9) | 205(44.0) | 116(30.4) | 142(32.0) |
Yoruba | 319(76.1) | 422(80.1) | 213(75.8) | 221(71.3) | 205(61.0) | 178(55.1) | 156(52.2) | 143(45.7) | 135(41.5) |
Others | 227(36.9) | 275(31.8) | 122(23.8) | 129(24.8) | 120(18.2) | 96(14.5) | 100(12.6) | 69(10.5) | 75 (11.7) |
Region | 400.6* | 648.3* | 388.7* | 254.7* | 54.9* | 240.7* | 239.2* | 160.2* | 136.0* |
North Cent | 88(41.9) | 93(38.9) | 53(27.5) | 68(34.2) | 70(24.6) | 68(26.6) | 72(20.9) | 60(21.1) | 55(21.1) |
North East | 9(4.5) | 20(5.9) | 21(8.1) | 15(5.2) | 28(7.4) | 28(6.7) | 52(9.3) | 46(8.4) | 53(11.9) |
North West | 104(42.3) | 230(33.9) | 98(30.6) | 134(34.4) | 141(35.1) | 170(33.5) | 190(31.9) | 220(33.6) | 268(39.1) |
South East | 287(82.9) | 338(77.7) | 292(68.9) | 170(56.3) | 179(53.8) | 171(51.5) | 183(49.1) | 108(33.1) | 124(33.1) |
South South | 183(58.7) | 212(46.4) | 106(46.3) | 117(44.2) | 85(30.8) | 7 (23.7) | 67 (22.5) | 38 (17.5) | 50(18.6) |
South West | 295(73.0) | 404(78.6) | 200(75.2) | 179(63.9) | 183(54.8) | 164(48.8) | 144(44.4) | 124(39.9) | 119(37.8) |
Residence | 0.064ns | 78.3* | 46.8* | 54.9* | 41.2* | 34.0* | 20.2* | 5.0*** | 0.016ns |
Urban | 348(55.9) | 693(58.3) | 434(54.2) | 381(49.4) | 390(41.4) | 383(37.4) | 364(32.9) | 271(27.9) | 312(28.6) |
Rural | 618(56.5) | 604(41.0) | 336(37.7) | 302(31.8) | 296(27.8) | 293(25.7) | 344(24.7) | 325(23.8) | 357(28.3) |