ByRosemary Uside Kongani
National Bureau of StatisticsKENYA
Integrating a Gender Perspective into Statistics
4th -7th December 2012Kampala, Uganda
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Women’s Empowerment, Gender Based Violence, and Female Circumcision
2008-09 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey
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Women’s Employment and Earnings
Decision making Attitudes toward Wife
Beating Gender Based Violence Female Circumcision
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© 2006 Mike Wang/PATH, Courtesy of Photoshare
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Percent of currently married women and men 15-49 employed at the time of the survey
Age
** Omitted because based on fewer than 25 unweighted cases.
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Percent distribution of payment type among employed women and men age 15-49
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Among women who received cash earnings, percent by who decides how woman’s earnings are used, reported by women 15-49
010203040506070
More Less Same Partner has no earning
13
65
18
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National
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Percent of married women 15-49 who make: more, less, same or partner has no earning
0
20
40
60
80
100
Own health care
Major household purchases
Daily household purchases
Visit to family or relatives
Deciding what food
to cook
Participate in all five
Participate in none of
the five
7367
8273
94
50
3
National
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Percent of currently married women age 15-49 who usually make specific decisions by themselves or jointly with their husband
0102030405060708090
Major household purchases
Daily household purchases
Visit to family or relatives
What to do with the
money the wife earns
How many children to
have
All five None of the five
62
85
66
80 79
40
4
National
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Percent of currently married men age 15-49 who think a wife should have the greater say alone or equal say with her husband on the following decisions
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Percent of men age 15-49 who believe that a husband has the right to certain behaviors when a wife refuses sex:
39
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Ever Often Sometimes Often or Sometimes
Kenya Total
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Percent of women age 15-49 who have experienced physical violence since age 15
In past 12 months
21% of women have ever experiencedsexual violence.
12% of women had their first sexual intercourse forced against their
will.
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Percent of women age 15-49 who have ever experienced violence committed by their husband/partner
North Easter
n34%
Eastern33%
Rift Valley42%
Nyanza55%
Western52%
Central
38%
Nairobi
24%
Coast33%
Women’s Experience with Spousal Physical or Sexual Violence by Province
Kenya41%
Percent of women age 15-49 who have ever experienced physical or
sexual violence committed by their husband/partner
15
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Percent of women age 15-49 who have ever experienced physical, or sexual violence committed by their husband/partner
Respondent’s father beat her mother
17
Percent of ever-married women 15-49 who report their husband or partner:
2783
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Percent of women circumcised, and type of circumcision
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Age (in years)
North Easter
n98%
Eastern36%
Rift Valley32%
Nyanza34%
Western1%
Central
27%
Nairobi
14%
Coast10%
Female Circumcision by Province
Kenya27%
Percent of women circumcised
20
2
12 12
15
19
33
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Infancy 3-7 8-9 10-11 12-13 14-18 19-26
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Percent distribution of women who have been circumcised by age at circumcision
Age (in years)
78% of female circumcisions are performed by a traditional “circumciser” and 20% are
performed by a health professional
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82% of women believe that the practice of female circumcision
should be stopped.
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Some of the selected households did not have eligible women (outside the age bracket, not there at all)
Some communities do not allow their women to be interviewed
Woman selected household that were Vacant could not be replaced
Language barrier
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