15-38.
Reduce physical fighting among adolescents.
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15-38. | |
Reduce physical fighting among adolescents. |
Target: 32 percent.
Baseline: 36 percent of adolescents in grades 9 through 12 engaged in physical fighting in the previous 12 months in 1999.
Target setting method: Better than the best.
Data source: Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS), CDC, NCCDPHP.
|
Adolescents in Grades 9 Through 12, 1999 |
Fighting in Past 12 Months |
|
Percent |
|
|
TOTAL |
36 |
|
Race and ethnicity |
|
|
American Indian or Alaska Native |
DSU |
|
Asian or Pacific Islander |
DSU |
|
Asian |
DSU |
|
Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander |
DSU |
|
Black or African American |
41 |
|
White |
34 |
|
|
|
|
Hispanic or Latino |
40 |
|
Not Hispanic or Latino |
35 |
|
Black or African American |
41 |
|
White |
33 |
|
Gender |
|
|
Female |
27 |
|
Male |
44 |
|
Parents’ education level |
|
|
Less than high school |
DNC |
|
High school graduate |
DNC |
|
At least some college |
DNC |
|
Select populations |
|
|
9th grade |
41 |
|
10th grade |
38 |
|
11th grade |
31 |
|
12th grade |
30 |
DNA = Data have not been analyzed. DNC = Data are not collected. DSU = Data are statistically unreliable.