Percentage distribution of public school students and teachers who reported how the level of violence within their schools had changed the past year: 1993-94 and 1998-99

Table 75

______________________________________________________________________________________________________
                      |     Increased     |      Decreased    |  Stayed the same  |     Don't know
                      |___________________|___________________|___________________|___________________
   Respondent group   |         |         |         |         |         |         |         |
                      |  1993   |  1998   |  1993   |  1998   |  1993   |  1998   |  1993   |  1998
______________________|_________|_________|_________|_________|_________|_________|_________|_________
          1           |    2    |    3    |    4    |    5    |    6    |    7    |    8    |    9
______________________|_________|_________|_________|_________|_________|_________|_________|_________
Teachers..............|      19 |      12 |      11 |      21 |      70 |      65 |       1 |       2
  Male ...............|      18 |      13 |      12 |      13 |      69 |      65 |       1 |       1
  Female..............|      19 |      11 |      10 |      11 |      70 |      66 |       1 |       2
  Urban ..............|      22 |      15 |      12 |      24 |      66 |      58 |       1 |       2
  Suburban or rural...|      18 |      10 |      10 |      19 |      71 |      69 |       1 |       1
                      |         |         |         |         |         |         |         |
Students..............|      15 |      11 |      13 |      29 |      45 |      60 |      27 |     ---
  Male ...............|      18 |      12 |      13 |      29 |      43 |      59 |      25 |     ---
  Female..............|      12 |       9 |      13 |      30 |      46 |      61 |      30 |     ---
  Urban ..............|      16 |       7 |      14 |      35 |      47 |      58 |      23 |     ---
  Suburban or rural...|      14 |      12 |      12 |      27 |      43 |      61 |      30 |     ---
______________________|_________|_________|_________|_________|_________|_________|_________|_________

---No responses.

NOTE.--Because of rounding and nonresponse, details may not add to totals.

SOURCE: Metropolitan Life/Louis Harris Associates, Inc., The Metropolitan Life Survey of The American Teacher, 1999, "Violence In America's Public Schools: Five Years Later." (This table was prepared August 1999.)

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