Estimates of female genital mutilation/cutting in the Netherlands: a comparison between a nationwide survey in midwifery practices and extrapolation-model

Table 1 Estimated FGM/C prevalence in midwifery practices, according to certainty of recognition and retrieval medical records

	Number of midwifery practices	Number of women in care	Number of cut women in care	Prevalence (%)	95% Confidence Interval
All midwifery practices	319	96,932	523	0.54	0.536–0.543
Midwifery practices with cut women in care	167	60,651	522^a	0.86	0.854–0.867
Certain. retrieved	25	26,040	198	0.76	0.751–0.770
Certain. unretrieved	74	6555	38	0.58	0.566–0.594
Uncertain. retrieved	21	9104	55	0.60	0.592–0.617
Uncertain. unretrieved	47	18,952	231	1.22	1.202–1.236

^aData on ‘certainty’ and ‘retrieval from medical records’ were missing from one midwifery practice

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