Table 230.55.

Percentage of students ages 12-18 who reported being cyber-bullied anywhere during the school year, by type of cyber-bullying and selected student and school characteristics: 2013

[Standard errors appear in parentheses]
Student or school characteristic	Total cyber- bullying1			Type of cyber-bullying
				Hurtful information on Internet			Private information purposely shared on Internet			Subject of harassing instant messages			Subject of harassing text messages			Subject of harassing e-mails			Subject of harassment while gaming			Excluded online
1	2			3			4			5			6			7			8			9
Total	6.9		(0.42)	2.8		(0.24)	0.9		(0.15)	2.1		(0.22)	3.2		(0.28)	0.9		(0.15)	1.5		(0.18)	0.9		(0.13)
Sex
Male	5.2		(0.43)	1.2		(0.22)	0.4		(0.12)	1.0		(0.19)	1.6		(0.25)	0.2	!	(0.09)	2.5		(0.31)	0.9		(0.18)
Female	8.6		(0.63)	4.5		(0.42)	1.5		(0.27)	3.4		(0.39)	4.9		(0.51)	1.7		(0.30)	0.4	!	(0.14)	0.9		(0.18)
Race/ethnicity2
White	7.6		(0.57)	2.9		(0.35)	1.0		(0.22)	2.2		(0.27)	3.8		(0.42)	0.8		(0.19)	1.8		(0.26)	1.0		(0.18)
Black	4.5		(0.94)	2.2		(0.63)	‡		(†)	1.8	!	(0.57)	1.9		(0.49)	0.8	!	(0.35)	‡		(†)	‡		(†)
Hispanic	5.8		(0.78)	2.6		(0.52)	1.0	!	(0.34)	1.9		(0.41)	2.6		(0.52)	0.8	!	(0.28)	0.9	!	(0.30)	1.0		(0.29)
Asian	5.8		(1.67)	1.8	!	(0.85)	‡		(†)	‡		(†)	‡		(†)	‡		(†)	3.1	!	(1.20)	‡		(†)
Other	13.4		(2.43)	6.9		(1.86)	1.9	!	(0.96)	4.9	!	(1.63)	6.2		(1.69)	4.7	!	(1.62)	3.2	!	(1.30)	‡		(†)
Grade
6th	5.9		(1.20)	1.4	!	(0.58)	‡		(†)	1.2	!	(0.54)	2.3	!	(0.78)	‡		(†)	1.5	!	(0.61)	‡		(†)
7th	7.0		(0.91)	2.1		(0.53)	1.1	!	(0.36)	2.3		(0.51)	3.8		(0.74)	1.0	!	(0.35)	1.8		(0.44)	0.8	!	(0.30)
8th	6.4		(0.86)	3.1		(0.59)	0.9	!	(0.26)	2.3		(0.55)	3.2		(0.64)	1.5	!	(0.48)	1.7		(0.50)	1.5	!	(0.46)
9th	6.7		(0.97)	2.0		(0.49)	‡		(†)	2.9		(0.58)	2.8		(0.62)	‡		(†)	1.6		(0.48)	1.4	!	(0.43)
10th	8.6		(1.16)	4.1		(0.84)	1.2	!	(0.41)	2.8		(0.61)	4.5		(0.81)	1.4	!	(0.41)	1.0	!	(0.35)	1.0	!	(0.34)
11th	6.8		(0.87)	3.9		(0.71)	1.3	!	(0.41)	1.1	!	(0.43)	2.7		(0.55)	‡		(†)	1.3		(0.39)	‡		(†)
12th	5.9		(0.93)	2.6		(0.67)	‡		(†)	1.9		(0.55)	2.3		(0.59)	1.1	!	(0.40)	1.4	!	(0.51)	‡		(†)
Urbanicity3
Urban	7.1		(0.73)	3.4		(0.50)	1.1		(0.32)	2.4		(0.45)	3.1		(0.50)	1.4		(0.34)	1.5		(0.25)	1.2		(0.33)
Suburban	7.0		(0.61)	2.7		(0.35)	0.9		(0.20)	2.0		(0.27)	3.3		(0.40)	0.8		(0.18)	1.6		(0.27)	0.9		(0.17)
Rural	5.9		(1.02)	2.2		(0.43)	0.8	!	(0.29)	2.0	!	(0.62)	2.9		(0.72)	0.7	!	(0.31)	1.0	!	(0.48)	‡		(†)
Control of school
Public	6.9		(0.45)	2.9		(0.26)	0.9		(0.16)	2.2		(0.23)	3.2		(0.30)	0.9		(0.16)	1.5		(0.19)	0.9		(0.14)
Private	6.4		(1.44)	2.0	!	(0.76)	1.2	!	(0.54)	‡		(†)	2.9	!	(0.98)	‡		(†)	‡		(†)	‡		(†)

†Not applicable.

!Interpret data with caution. The coefficient of variation (CV) for this estimate is between 30 and 50 percent.

‡Reporting standards not met. Either there are too few cases for a reliable estimate or the coefficient of variation (CV) is 50 percent or greater.

1 Students who reported experiencing more than one type of cyber-bullying were counted only once in the total for students cyber-bullied.

2 Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. "Other" includes American Indians/Alaska Natives, Pacific Islanders, and persons of Two or more races.

3 Refers to the Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) status of the respondent's household as defined in 2000 by the U.S. Census Bureau. Categories include "central city of an MSA (Urban)," "in MSA but not in central city (Suburban)," and "not MSA (Rural)."

NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding and because students could have experienced more than one type of cyber-bullying.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, School Crime Supplement (SCS) to the National Crime Victimization Survey, 2013. (This table was prepared August 2014.)