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[QUOTE]Originally posted by homing pigeon: [QB] I would like to mention a certain issue with the Egyptian Demographic Health Survey. If you could get hold of a copy, they explain their data collection methods in detail. There are two main problems with population surveys in Egypt; first that we dont have a proper "sampling frame" for the population where every single person of the population is listed and a random sample could be appropriately derived. Such a sampling frame is present in the UK, for example, in primary health care records of family doctors because in the UK every person is registered to recive medical care in one GP practice. In absence of an appropriate sampling frame, every time a population survey is done in Egypt, there is some bias in the study sample which reflects in the results. Second, Egyptian upper classes are much less receptive to door to door survey researchers and are extremely unlikely to participate. This creates further bias in the study sample. The results are always skewed in terms of socioidemographics and are almost always representative of the lower socioeconomic/educational level part of the population. As an Egyptian who lived in the better educated part of the society, I am sure that the prevalence of female circumcision is very small in this group. So if a truly representative sample was taken, the effect would be to dilute the present value (97%) quite significantly. In fact, I never heard of female circumcision until i was about 20 and that was from a servant girl who worked for my family. I also remember when I was a medical student (i cant remember which year) and the surgery registrar mentioned female circumcision to us as a problem in the Egyptian middle-lower classes. A significant proportion of those students present were hearing about it for the first time. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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