Title page
Contents
Introduction 6
Key Findings 6
Overview of the 2019 School Crime Supplement 8
Rationale for Question Revision 10
Development of Revised Bullying Questions and Split-Sample Experiment 11
Methodology for Split-Sample Survey Administration 17
Sampling 17
Split-Sample Administration 18
Weighting 19
Preliminary Results of 2019 School Crime Supplement 20
Unit Response Rates by Version 20
Respondents by Version 20
Item Response 21
Bullying Estimates (Type, Location, and Rates) 22
Estimates of Availability of Drugs in School 24
Estimates of Student Activities and Gangs in School 25
Findings From Interviewer Debriefing 26
Discussion and Conclusions 28
Recommendations 30
Statistical Procedures 31
References 32
Appendix A: School Crime Supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey Details of Survey Question Changes From 2017 to 2019 33
Appendix B: 2019 School Crime Supplement Questionnaire 38
Appendix C: Respondent Characteristics 59
Table 1. 2019 School Crime Supplement unit response rates, by version 20
Table 2. 2019 School Crime Supplement item responses, by version 22
Table 3. Weighted bullying estimates, by version 23
Table 4. Among students ages 12 to 18 who reported bullying behaviors, percentage who explicitly considered them to be bullying from Version 2 23
Table 5. Weighted estimates with notable differences, by type and location of bullying 24
Table 6. Weighted estimates for availability of alcohol and drugs at school, by version 24
Table 7. Weighted estimates for extracurricular school activities, by version 25
Exhibits
Exhibit 1. Summary of changes to the 2019 School Crime Supplement relative to the 2017 version 8
Exhibit 2. Different question series in the 2019 School Crime Supplement to determine how the respondent was bullied, by version 9
Exhibit 3. Differences in bullying questions from Version 1 to Version 2 and rationale 12
Table C-1. 2019 School Crime Supplement respondent characteristics, by version 59