Table 11.1. Percentage of students ages 12–18 who reported being bullied at school and cyber-bullied anywhere during the school year, by selected bullying problems and selected student and school characteristics: 2007

Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2008

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Table 11.1.

Percentage of students ages 12–18 who reported being bullied at school and cyber-bullied anywhere during the school year, by selected bullying problems and selected student and school characteristics: 2007

Student or school characteristic	Total	Bullied at school												Cyber-bullying anywhere

Student or school characteristic	Total	Total bullying at school	Made fun of, called names, or insulted	Subject of rumors	Threatened with harm		Pushed, shoved, tripped, spit on		Tried to make do things did not want to do		Excluded from activities on purpose	Property destroyed on purpose		Total cyber- bullying¹		Hurtful information on Internet		Unwanted contact on Internet²
Total	32.2	31.7	21.0	18.1	5.8		11.0		4.1		5.2	4.2		3.7		1.6		2.1

Sex
Male	30.6	30.3	20.3	13.5	6.0		12.2		4.8		4.6	4.0		2.0		0.9		1.3
Female	33.7	33.2	21.7	22.8	5.6		9.7		3.4		5.8	4.4		5.3		2.3		2.9

Race/ethnicity³
White	34.6	34.1	23.5	20.3	6.3		11.5		4.8		6.1	4.2		4.2		1.9		2.4
Black	30.9	30.4	19.5	15.7	5.8		11.3		3.2		3.7	5.6		3.2		1.4	!	1.5	!
Hispanic	27.6	27.3	16.1	14.4	4.9		9.9		3.0		4.0	3.6		2.9		0.9	!	2.0
Asian	18.1	18.1	10.6	8.2	‡		3.8	!	‡		‡	1.8	!	‡		‡		‡
Other	34.6	34.1	20.1	20.8	7.7		14.4		3.1	!	7.7	3.4	!	2.4	!	‡		‡

Grade
6th	42.9	42.7	31.2	21.3	7.0		17.6		5.4		7.4	5.2		3.1		1.1	!	1.2	!
7th	35.7	35.6	27.6	20.2	7.4		15.8		4.1		7.7	6.0		3.4		1.1	!	2.3
8th	37.3	36.9	25.1	19.7	6.9		14.2		3.6		5.4	4.6		3.3		1.6	!	2.1
9th	30.8	30.6	20.3	18.1	4.6		11.4		5.1		4.5	3.5		2.5		0.9	!	1.6
10th	28.4	27.7	17.7	15.0	5.8		8.6		4.6		4.6	3.4		4.6		1.9		2.5
11th	29.3	28.5	15.3	18.7	4.9		6.5		4.2		3.9	4.4		5.1		2.5		2.6
12th	23.5	23.0	12.1	14.1	4.3		4.1		2.1		3.5	2.4		3.5		1.9		2.0	!

Urbanicity
Urban	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡		‡		‡		‡	‡		‡		‡		‡
Suburban	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡		‡		‡		‡	‡		‡		‡		‡
Rural	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡		‡		‡		‡	‡		‡		‡		‡

Sector
Public	32.4	32.0	21.1	18.3	6.2		11.4		4.2		5.2	4.1		3.9		1.7		2.2
Private	29.4	29.1	20.1	16.0	1.3	!	6.5		3.6		5.9	5.0		1.0	!	‡		1.0	!
! Interpret data with caution.
‡ Reporting standards not met.
¹ Cyber-bullied includes students who responded that another student "made unwanted contact, for example, threatened or insulted [the respondent] via text (SMS) messaging." This category did not meet reporting standards to be reported separately.
² This was defined as another student making "unwanted contact, for example, threatened or insulted [the respondent] via instant messaging."
³ Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. Other includes American Indian, Alaska Native, Pacific Islander, and more than one race.
NOTE: "At school" includes the school building, on school property, on a school bus, or going to and from school. Bullying types do not sum to total because students could have experienced more than one type of bullying. In 2007, the unit response rate for this survey did not meet NCES statistical standards; therefore, interpret the data with caution. Due to a redesign of the methods used to measure urbanicity, estimates for 2007 locales are not shown. For more information, please see appendix A (301 KB).
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, School Crime Supplement (SCS) to the National Crime Victimization Survey, 2007.

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