5 Deficits

Percent of Youth Reporting Each of 5 Deficits - 2006 Data

Deficit	Definition	% Total Sample
Alone at Home	Two hours or more per school day	45
TV Overexposure	Watches TV or videos three or more hours per school day	25
Physical Abuse	Reports one or more incidents, "have you ever been physically harmed (that is, where someone caused you to have a scar, black and blue marks, welts, bleeding, or a broken bone) by someone in your family or someone living with you?"	29
Victim of Violence	Reports one or more incidents, "how many times in the last two years have you been the victim of physical violence where someone caused you physical pain or injury?"	29
Drinking Parties	Reports attending one or more parties in the last year "where other kids your age were drinking"	50

From Developmental Assets: A Profile of Your Youth for Great Lakes Center for Youth Development, 2007, by Search Institute, Minneapolis, MN. Data collected with the survey Search Institute Profiles of Student Life: Attitudes and Behaviors, copyright 1996, Search Institute, Minneapolis, MN.

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