Editing Female genital mutilation (section)

===Household surveys===
[[File:2020 Global Response report FGM world map.svg|thumb|400px|Map showing the % of women and girls aged 15–49 years (unless otherwise stated) who have undergone FGM/C according to the March 2020 Global Response report.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.endfgm.eu/editor/files/2020/04/FGM_Global_-_ONLINE_PDF_VERSION_-_07.pdf |title=Female genital mutilation/cutting: a call for a global response |publisher=End FGM European Network, U.S. End FGM/C Network and Equality Now |date=March 2020 |accessdate=6 May 2020}}</ref> Grey countries' data are not covered.]]
Aid agencies define the prevalence of FGM as the percentage of the 15–49 age group that has experienced it.{{sfn|Yoder|Wang|Johansen|2013|loc=193}} These figures are based on nationally representative household surveys known as [[Demographic and Health Surveys]] (DHS), developed by [[ICF International|Macro International]] and funded mainly by the [[United States Agency for International Development]] (USAID); and [[Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys]] (MICS) conducted with financial and technical help from UNICEF.{{sfn|Yoder|Wang|Johansen|2013|loc=190}} These surveys have been carried out in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and elsewhere roughly every five years since 1984 and 1995 respectively.<ref name=DHS>[http://www.dhsprogram.com/What-We-Do/Survey-Types/DHS.cfm "DHS overview"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141016202457/http://www.dhsprogram.com/What-We-Do/Survey-Types/DHS.cfm |date=16 October 2014 }}, Demographic and Health Surveys; [http://www.childinfo.org/mics5_questionnaire.html "Questionnaires and Indicator List"], Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys, UNICEF.</ref> The first to ask about FGM was the 1989–1990 DHS in northern Sudan. The first publication to estimate FGM prevalence based on DHS data (in seven countries) was written by Dara Carr of Macro International in 1997.{{sfn|Yoder|Wang|Johansen|2013}}