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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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