Proportion of girls and women who have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting.

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This indicator contains some alternative data to those specified by the United Nations (UN). This indicator is the most suitable match currently available.

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Headline data

Source: NHS Digital

Geographical Area: England

Footnote:

1. Values between 1-7 are rounded to 5. All other values are rounded to the nearest 5.

2. Commissioning region is derived from the patient’s postcode of usual address.

3. Individuals refers to all patients in the reporting period where FGM was identified or a procedure for FGM was undertaken.

4. Each patient is only counted once.

5. Age - When a woman with FGM has given birth to a baby girl, the baby should not be recorded in the dataset unless the baby girl has also been identified with FGM. Some babies have been recorded in the dataset in error, so some entries aged under 18 may be incorrect. This is a very small proportion of the data.

6. Country - Where a patient has more than one Country of Birth recorded in the FGM Enhanced Dataset, the latest is used.

7. Country - ‘Rest of Africa’ includes all cases where the recorded country of birth is in Middle and Southern Africa, according to the UNSD regional mappings.

8. Country - ‘Rest of Asia’ includes all cases where the recorded country of birth is in Central, Eastern, South-Eastern Asia and Southern Asia, according to the UNSD regional mappings.

9. Country - ‘Rest of the world’ includes all cases where the recorded country of birth is outside of Africa, Asia and the United Kingdom, according to the UNSD regional mappings.

10. FGM Type - Where a patient has more than one FGM type recorded in the FGM Enhanced Dataset, the latest is used.

This table provides metadata for the actual indicator available from UK statistics closest to the corresponding global SDG indicator. Please note that even when the global SDG indicator is fully available from UK statistics, this table should be consulted for information on national methodology and other UK-specific metadata information.

This table provides information on metadata for SDG indicators as defined by the UN Statistical Commission. Complete global metadata is provided by the UN Statistics Division.

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