COUNTRY CODE (FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION PERFORMED)

COUNTRY CODE (FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION PERFORMED) is the country where female genital mutilation was performed.

Format / Length

a3

Description

COUNTRY CODE (FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION PERFORMED) is the same as attribute COUNTRY CODE.

COUNTRY CODE (FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION PERFORMED) is the country where female genital mutilation was performed.

Refer to the ISO 3166-1 standard for actual list of alphabetic codes and countries. The alphabetic code to be used is the 3-char alphabetic code available on the International Organisation for Standardisation website https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#search. The 2-char alphabetic code must not be used.

Note: Default Code descriptions have been updated in Data Dictionary Change Notice 1934 "Default Codes Description Updates". The Data Set specifications that contain this item will be updated in the next version of the Information Standard where it is not already correct.

Default Codes

Code Description

XXX

COUNTRY CODE not known

ZZZ

Not stated (PERSON  asked bur declined to provide a response)

Also Known As

This data element is also known by these names:

Context Alias
Plural COUNTRY CODES (FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION PERFORMED)