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

Reduce sexual or physical adolescent dating violence — IVP‑18 Data

Status: Getting worse

  Getting worse
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Most Recent Data:
15.7 percent (2021)

Target:
11.4 percent

Desired Direction:
Decrease desired

Baseline:
12.6 percent of students in grades 9 through 12 who dated or went out with someone in the past 12 months reported that they had been forced to do "sexual things" (e.g., kissing, touching, or having sexual intercourse) they did not want to do, or were physically hurt on purpose (e.g., being hit, slammed into something, or injured with an object or weapon) 1 or more times in the past 12 months in 2017

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Adolescent sexual or physical violence by a dating partner, 2017-2021
(percent)
Decrease desired

Population 2017 2019 2021
Total
12.6
CI 11.7 / 13.5
SE 0.431
14.3
CI 12.7 / 16.1
SE 0.826
15.7
CI 14.0 / 17.5
SE 0.889