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Data Summary - Oregon

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VariableStatisticSource*
Student Victimization and Perpetration
Prevalence Percent of HS Students Who Carried a Weapon Anywhere in the Past 30 Days (1997).e
Prevalence Percent of HS Students Who Carried a Gun Anywhere in the Past 30 Days (1997).e
Prevalence Percent of HS Students Who Carried a Weapon on School Property in the Past 30 Days (1997) .e
Prevalence Percent of HS Students Who Have Been Threatened or Injured With a Weapon on School Property in the past 30 Days (1997).e
Prevalence Percent of HS Students Who Have Been in a Physical Fight on School Property in the Past 30 Days (1997).e
Prevalence Percent of students who felt unsafe to go to school in the past 30 days (1997) .e
Juvenile Crime
Number of persons under 18 charged with a violent crime 1056f
Number of persons under 18 charged with a property crime 12754f
Number of persons under 18 charged with murder or non-neg. manslaughter 20f
Number of persons under 18 charged with forcible rape 56f
Number of persons under 18 charged with robbery 343f
Number of persons under 18 charged with aggravated assault 637f
Number of persons under 18 charged with burglary) 1665f
Number of persons under 18 charged with larceny or theft 9712f
Number of persons under 18 charged with motor vehicle theft 1113f
Number of persons under 18 charged with Arson 264f
Population
Total Child Population under age 18 (1999) 827500c
Percent of total state pop. living in poverty (average between years 1996-1997) 11.7b
Percent of children in poverty, 1998 16c
Percent of children in poverty (rank), 1998 19c
Percent low birth-weight babies, 1998 5.4c
Percent low birth-weight babies (rank), 1998 1c
Infant mortality rate, 1998 5.4c
Infant mortality rate (rank), 1998 3c
Teen birth rate, 1998 26c
Teen birth rate (rank), 1998 25c
Percent of children living with parents who do not have full-time, year-round employment, 1998 30c
Percent of children living with parents who do not have full-time, year-round employment (rank), 1998 42c
Percent of teens who are high school dropouts, 1998 13c
Percent of teens who are high school dropouts (rank), 1998 45c
Percent of teens not attending school and not working, 1998 10c
Percent of teens not attending school and not working (rank), 1998 37c
Schools
Total student membership in public schools, Fall 1998 542809c
Total number of Guidance Counselors employed by public schools, Fall 1998 1218c
Total student/teacher ratio in public schools, Fall 1998 20c
Gun-Free Schools Act Expulsions
Number of Students Expelled for Gun-Free Schools Act Violations 1997-98 135a
Number Students expelled for carrying a gun to school: academic year 1996-97 85d

* Data Sources

  1. Westat (1999). Report on State Implemenation of the Gun-Free Schools Act- School Year 1997-98. Rockville, Maryland.
  2. Dalaker, J. & Naifeh, M. U.S. Census Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports, Series P60-201, Poverty in the United States: 1997, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1998 ( pg ix).
  3. Annie E. Casey Foundation. 2001 KIDS COUNT Data Book Online: Definitions and Data Sources. http://www.aecf.org/kidscount/
    kc2001/definitions.htm
  4. Westat (1998). Report on State Implementation of the Gun-Free Schools Act- School Year 1996-97. Rockville, Maryland
  5. Kann, L. (1998). Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance-United States, 1997. In MMWR. Vol. 47 (No. SS-3), p. 39-46.
  6. U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Crime in the United States, 1996 (Washington, D.C.: USGPO, 1997, pp. 272-279) in Maguire, K. & Pastore, A.L., eds., Sour cebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 1997. U.S. Department of Justice, Bureaur of Justice Statistics. Washington, DC: USGPO, 1998. (Table 4.5)