2001 Michigan Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS)
Violence and Suicide Fact Sheet
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Trends

Compared to 1997, high school students were significantly less likely to carry a weapon, carry a gun, and carry a weapon on school property.

Survey Question MI Gender Grade race/ethnicity
01 M F 9 10 11 12 White Black Hispanic
% of students who carried a weapon,
such as a gun, knife, or club, on one or more
of the past 30 days
13 19 5 14 14 11 9 12 15 21
% of students who carried a gun on one
or more of the past 30 days
5 8 1 6 5 3 3 4 7 6
% of students who carried a weapon,
such as a gun, knife, or club, on school
property on one or more of the past 30 days
5 7 2 5 6 4 4 4 7 4
% of students who did not go to school on
one or more of the past 30 days because
they felt unsafe at school or on their way
to or from school
7 7 8 9 8 5 5 5 17 18
% of students who had been threatened or
injured with a weapon on school property

one or more times during the past 12 months
9 11 7 11 11 8 4 8 13 13
% of students who were in a physical fight
one or more times during the past 12 months
34 42 25 42 36 28 25 31 49 37
% of students who were injured in a
physical fight
and had to be treated by a
doctor or nurse one or more times during the
past 12 months
4 5 2 5 4 2 4 3 6 10
% of students who were in a physical fight
on
school property one or more times
during the past 12 months
11 16 7 15 13 8 6 10 21 17
% of students who were ever hit, slapped, or
physically hurt on purpose by
their boy-
friend or girlfriend
during the past 12 months
12 12 12 10 11 14 14 12 12 17
% of students who ever felt so sad or hope-
less
almost every day for two weeks or more
in a row that they stopped doing some
usual activities during the past 12 months
27 22 33 26 29 27 27 26 29 36
% of students who seriously considered
attempting suicide
during the past 12 months
18 13 23 18 20 18 16 18 15 27
% of students who made a plan about how
they would attempt suicide during the
past 12 months
15 11 18 15 15 15 13 14 15 19
% of students who actually attempted
suicide
one or more times during the
past 12 months
10 8 12 13 12 7 7 9 16 18
% of students whose attempted suicide
during the past 12 months resulted in an
injury, poisoning, or overdose that had to
be treated
by a doctor or nurse
4 4 3 5 4 2 2 3 4 8

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