Physical fighting among high school students - United States, 1990

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Feb 14, 1992

(*) The incidence rate was calculated by adding the number of times each student reported being involved in a physical fight during the 30 days preceding the survey and dividing this sum by the total number of students. The number of physical-fighting episodes per student was then multiplied by 100 to determine the incidence rate per 100 students. Students who replied that they had fought two or three times were assigned a physical fighting frequency of 2.5; four or five times, 4.5; and six or more times, 6.

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