Table 2 Characteristics of the participants
| Â | Focus group discussions | Individual interviews | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Women 1st and 2nd generation | Men | Women, 1st generation | Women, 2nd generation | Women, 1st generation | Men | ||
Number of FGDs Date and duration (in minutes) of session | [1] Jun., 21 99 min | [2] Jul., 14 74–93 min | [3] Jul., 7 and 21; Sep., 21 109 -119 min | [1] Oct. 20 117 min | Sep., 8 66–75 min | Sept., 8 68 min | [7] June–October 2018 |
Number of participants | 3 | 14 | 25 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 55 |
Age range | 23–50 | 32–70 | 19–56 | 18–29 | 45–50 | 54 | 19–70 |
Number of women mentioning being cut | 2 | N/A | 7 | 0 | 2 | N/A | 11 |
Do you have children? | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
 Born in the country of origin | 3 | 15 | 76 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 110 |
 Born in the Netherlands | 6 | 13 | 17 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 46 |
Country of origin (Number of participants) | Somalia (2), Guinea (1) | Somalia (3), Ethiopia (2), Eritrea (2), Sudan (3), Egypt (1), Togo (2), Ghana (1) | Somalia (6), Egypt (1), Sudan (2), Sierra Leone (1), Eritrea (15) | Somalia (5), Eritrea (2), Egypt (1) | Somalia (1), Eritrea (1), Iraq (1), Egypt (1) | Eritrea (1) | Somalia (17), Guinea (1), Ethiopia (2), Eritrea (21), Sudan (5), Egypt (4), Togo (2), Ghana (1), Sierra Leone (1), Iraq (1) |