You’re right; I misread Susannah’s tweet (and read the “ever” bar as “in school”).
Re. the Wikipedia article: those are ever harassed numbers; the Zambia number is within the last year. Assuming that sexual harassment is spread across all grades (K-12), “within the last year” (81/12) would be ~7% (which is how I got a quarter of the 26% I quote, though you’re right that I was misreading the tweet). Upon further thought, dividing by 12 is a little aggressive, since sexual harassment is more likely in last six years of that (grades 6-12), so say, 15% risk per year.
Lee and Susannah have a longer blog post in which they examine sexual violence in schools, and find somewhat higher rates of sexual violence in developing countries than developed.
Qualitatively, my impression is that what counts as “the kind of violence you’d remember and report in surveys” is a significantly lower bar in the US than in SSA. (I once tried to report being harassed in Uganda, and got completely blank looks like “this is normal, why are you are complaining”.). But I don’t have data to hand to back that up beyond my own experience.
(Edited to add: I edited my comment above to be correct.)
Re. the Wikipedia article: those are ever harassed numbers; the Zambia number is within the last year. Assuming that sexual harassment is spread across all grades (K-12), “within the last year” (81/12) would be ~7% (which is how I got a quarter of the 26% I quote, though you’re right that I was misreading the tweet). Upon further thought, dividing by 12 is a little aggressive, since sexual harassment is more likely in last six years of that (grades 6-12), so say, 15% risk per year.
Interesting. I think I disagree with this renewed assessment, as:
1. We shouldn’t assume that “reported sexual harassment in school” is the same thing as “have ever been sexually harassed exactly once in school.” If anything there should be a presumption that this have happened to many people significantly more than once.
2. The survey is of “2064 students in 8th through 11th grade,” so of course many surveyed students literally were not around for the full span of grades 6-12.
Qualitatively, my impression is that what counts as “the kind of violence you’d remember and report in surveys” is a significantly lower bar in the US than in SSA. (I once tried to report being harassed in Uganda, and got completely blank looks like “this is normal, why are you are complaining”.). But I don’t have data to hand to back that up beyond my own experience.
I do agree that reporting bias differences are pretty likely. And I’m sorry to hear that you’ve been harassed in Uganda.
You’re right; I misread Susannah’s tweet (and read the “ever” bar as “in school”).
Re. the Wikipedia article: those are ever harassed numbers; the Zambia number is within the last year. Assuming that sexual harassment is spread across all grades (K-12), “within the last year” (81/12) would be ~7% (which is how I got a quarter of the 26% I quote, though you’re right that I was misreading the tweet). Upon further thought, dividing by 12 is a little aggressive, since sexual harassment is more likely in last six years of that (grades 6-12), so say, 15% risk per year.
Lee and Susannah have a longer blog post in which they examine sexual violence in schools, and find somewhat higher rates of sexual violence in developing countries than developed.
Qualitatively, my impression is that what counts as “the kind of violence you’d remember and report in surveys” is a significantly lower bar in the US than in SSA. (I once tried to report being harassed in Uganda, and got completely blank looks like “this is normal, why are you are complaining”.). But I don’t have data to hand to back that up beyond my own experience.
(Edited to add: I edited my comment above to be correct.)
Interesting. I think I disagree with this renewed assessment, as:
1. We shouldn’t assume that “reported sexual harassment in school” is the same thing as “have ever been sexually harassed exactly once in school.” If anything there should be a presumption that this have happened to many people significantly more than once.
2. The survey is of “2064 students in 8th through 11th grade,” so of course many surveyed students literally were not around for the full span of grades 6-12.
I do agree that reporting bias differences are pretty likely. And I’m sorry to hear that you’ve been harassed in Uganda.