Table 12. Percentage of students ages 12–18 who reported being bullied at school and the frequency of being bullied, by selected student and school characteristics: School year 2006

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Table 12. Percentage of students ages 12–18 who reported being bullied at school and the frequency of being bullied, by selected student and school characteristics: School year 2006–07
	Bullied at school¹		If yes, frequency being bullied
			Once or twice this school year	Once or twice a month		Once or twice a week		Almost every day
Student or school characteristic	Yes	No	Once or twice this school year	Once or twice a month		Once or twice a week		Almost every day
Total	31.7	68.3	59.6	19.7		9.6		6.3

Sex
Male	30.3	69.7	56.9	21.2		10.2		7.0
Female	33.2	66.8	62.1	18.3		9.0		5.6

Race/ethnicity
White, not Hispanic or Latino	34.1	65.9	58.8	20.8		9.7		6.6
Black, not Hispanic or Latino	30.4	69.6	63.4	15.9		9.8		5.7	!
Hispanic or Latino	27.3	72.7	59.8	19.2		9.5		4.8	!
All other races, not Hispanic or Latino²	25.3	74.7	58.0	18.5		8.6	!	8.3	!

Grade
6th	42.7	57.3	63.7	13.4		10.8		6.2
7th	35.6	64.4	51.5	23.1		11.1		9.4
8th	36.9	63.1	59.3	18.4		12.5		5.4
9th	30.6	69.4	53.6	25.0		9.7		5.6
10th	27.7	72.3	60.3	19.8		7.7		6.5
11th	28.5	71.5	63.7	22.6		5.9		5.1
12th	23.0	77.0	72.2	11.3		7.6	!	4.7	!

Household income
Less than $7,500	30.6	69.4	59.2	20.5	!	12.0	!	‡
$7,500-14,999	35.2	64.8	60.3	12.7		‡		15.5
$15,000-24,999	31.0	69.0	59.2	20.1		8.0	!	8.0	!
$25,000-34,999	33.0	67.0	60.7	15.1		11.3		9.6
$35,000-49,999	32.4	67.6	59.0	17.7		10.6		7.7
$50,000 or more	31.4	68.6	60.6	21.4		8.9		4.8

Urbanicity³
Urban	30.7	69.3	60.9	18.8		9.3		6.2
Suburban	31.2	68.8	58.6	20.8		10.2		6.1
Rural	35.2	64.8	60.5	18.1		8.4		6.9

Self-report of grades at school⁴
Mostly A's	28.3	71.7	66.3	17.5		8.4		4.6
Mostly B's	30.7	69.3	57.5	21.3		10.7		4.9
Mostly C's	37.7	62.3	57.6	19.6		7.7		9.8
Mostly D's	48.2	51.8	48.9	20.4		15.9		10.7	!
Mostly F's	69.1	30.9	44.1	16.6	!	14.1	!	21.4	!

Student report of violent victimization at school⁵
Yes	80.1	19.9	45.0	23.1		15.7		13.0	!
No	31.0	69.0	60.2	19.6		9.4		6.0

Student report of theft victimization at school⁵
Yes	56.5	43.5	54.2	23.3		9.5	!	10.9	!
No	31.0	69.0	59.9	19.5		9.6		6.0

Sector
Public	32.0	68.0	59.4	19.4		9.7		6.6
Private	29.1	70.9	61.2	22.9		8.5		‡
! Interpret data with caution. The standard error for this estimate is from 30 percent to 50 percent of the estimate’s value.
‡ Reporting standards not met. The standard error for this estimate is equal to 50 percent or more of the estimate's value.
¹ For the purposes of this table, students who were "bullied at school" indicated they were made fun of, had rumors spread about them, were threatened, pushed or harmed, made to do something they did not want to do, were purposefully excluded from activities, or had their property purposefully destroyed. Bullying only includes victimization by other students.
² "All other races, not Hispanic or Latino" includes Asians, Pacific Islanders, and American Indians (including Alaska Natives) and respondents of two or more races. For this report, not Hispanic or Latino students who identified themselves as being of two or more races (1 percent of all respondents) were included in the "all other races, not Hispanic or Latino" category. Respondents who identified themselves as being of Hispanic or Latino origin were classified as "Hispanic or Latino," regardless of their race.
³ Urbanicity refers to the Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) status of the respondent's household as defined in 1990 by the U.S. Census Bureau.
⁴ Rates for students who responded that their schools did not give grades or there was no alphabetical equivalent are not reported.
⁵ Victimization data are taken from the Incident Report of the National Crime Victimization Survey and appended to the School Crime Supplement (SCS) data file. Readers should note the reference period for the victimization data is "the last 6 months" while the reference period for the SCS is "the last school year."
NOTE: "Violent" victimization includes serious violent crimes (rape, sexual assault, robbery, and aggravated assault) and simple assault. "Theft" includes attempted and completed purse snatching, completed pickpocketing, and all attempted and completed thefts, excluding motor vehicle theft. Theft does not include robbery, in which the threat or use of force is involved. "At school" includes inside the school building, on school property, on a school bus, and on the way to and from school. Detail for the frequency of bullying may not sum to 100 percent because respondent-volunteered "don't know" responses are included in the base for the percentages listed. Population size for students ages 12–18 was 25,967,000 in 2007.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, School Crime Supplement (SCS) to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), 2007.

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