Fact Checker: CDC news release magnified spike in sexual violence against girls
for the same questions on lifetime prevalence of rape and recent sexual violence. The most recent ABES also was conducted in 2021 — in the spring rather than the fall like the YRBS. In the ABES, 10.4 percent said they had once been raped , and 15.3 percent said they had experienced sexual violence in the past year .
2019, this portion rose to 25 percent. For rape, the frequency of missing answers rose from 2 percent in 2017 to 18 percent to 2019.Fulton said the percentages of students not answering the question were similar in 2021 — 18 percent on the rape question and 23 percent on the sexual violence question. Deep in a report on the 2019 survey, the CDC acknowledged the spike in missing answers on these questions.
Stein noted that in 2019, there was a curious divergence in the results of two YRBS questions having to do with dating violence. The question concerning sexual dating violence —had a big jump in missing answers. The percentage of students reporting such violence increased substantially, reversing a previous decline. But the question on physical dating violence — when someone was physically hurt on purpose — had no change in missing answers and showed no reversal in trends.
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