U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Reduce adolescent sexual violence by anyone — IVP‑17 Data

Status: Getting worse

  Getting worse
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Most Recent Data:
11.0 percent (2021)

Target:
8.7 percent

Desired Direction:
Decrease desired

Baseline:
9.7 percent of students in grades 9 through 12 reported that they had been forced to do "sexual things" (e.g., kissing, touching, or having sexual intercourse) they did not want to do 1 or more times in the past 12 months in 2017

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Adolescents forced to do "sexual things" by anyone, 2017-2021
(percent)
Decrease desired

Population 2017 2019 2021
Total
9.7
CI 9.0 / 10.5
SE 0.362
10.8
CI 9.9 / 11.7
SE 0.431
11.0
CI 10.1 / 12.0
SE 0.469