School Survey on Crime and Safety, 2016

Description

The 2016 School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS:2016) is a data collection that is part of the School Survey on Crime and Safety program; program data are available since 2000 at . SSOCS:2016 (https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/ssocs/) is a cross-sectional survey of the nation's public schools designed to provide estimates of school crime, discipline, disorder, programs and policies. Regular public schools were sampled. The data collection was conducted using a mail questionnaire with telephone follow-up. The data collection's response rate was 62.9 percent. Key statistics produced from SSOCS:2016 include the frequency and types of disciplinary actions taken for select offenses; perceptions of other disciplinary problems, such as bullying, verbal abuse and disorder in the classroom; the presence and role of school security staff; parent and community involvement; staff training; mental health services available to students; and school policies and programs concerning crime and safety.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
74 2015-16 School Survey on Crime and Safety: Public-Use Data Files and Codebook https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2018/data/2018109.zip
47 Restricted-use data file for the 2016 School Survey on Crime and Safety https://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2017129

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  • disciplinary-problems-and-actions
  • school-security-staff
  • number-of-incidents
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  • limitations-on-crime-prevention
  • discipline-problems
  • public-schools
  • school-mental-health-services
  • violent-incidents-at-school
  • frequency-of-crime-and-violence-at-school
  • staff-training
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  • parent-and-community-involvement-at-school
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