Editing Female genital mutilation (section)

===Type of FGM===
Questions the women are asked during the surveys include: "Was the genital area just nicked/cut without removing any flesh? Was any flesh (or something) removed from the genital area? Was your genital area sewn?"<ref>[[#UNICEF2013|UNICEF 2013]], 134–135.</ref> Most women report "cut, some flesh removed" (Types I and II).<ref name=Yoder2013p189TypeI>[[#UNICEF2013|UNICEF 2013]], 47, table 5.2; {{harvnb|Yoder|Wang|Johansen|2013|loc=189}}.</ref>

Type I is the most common form in Egypt,{{sfn|Rasheed|Abd-Ellah|Yousef|2011}} and in the southern parts of Nigeria.{{sfn|Okeke|Anyaehie|Ezenyeaku|2012|loc=70–73}} Type III (infibulation) is concentrated in northeastern Africa, particularly Djibouti, Eritrea, Somalia, and Sudan.{{sfn|Yoder|Khan|2008|loc=13–14}} In surveys in 2002–2006, 30 percent of cut girls in Djibouti, 38 percent in Eritrea, and 63 percent in Somalia had experienced Type III.<ref>[[#UNICEF2013|UNICEF 2013]], 47. For the years and country profiles: [[#UNICEFDjibouti|Djibouti]], UNICEF, December 2013; [[#UNICEFEritrea|Eritrea]], UNICEF, July 2013; [[#UNICEFSomalia|Somalia]], UNICEF, December 2013.</ref> There is also a high prevalence of infibulation among girls in Niger and Senegal,<ref>[[#UNICEF2013|UNICEF 2013]], 114.</ref> and in 2013 it was estimated that in Nigeria three percent of the 0–14 age group had been infibulated.<ref>[[#UNICEFNigeria|Nigeria]], UNICEF, July 2014.</ref> The type of procedure is often linked to ethnicity. In Eritrea, for example, a survey in 2002 found that all [[Hedareb people|Hedareb]] girls had been infibulated, compared with two percent of the [[Tigrinya people|Tigrinya]], most of whom fell into the "cut, no flesh removed" category.<ref name=UNICEF2013p48/>