Students in grades 6 to 12 who report having been bullied by use of mean comments about their race, religion, or personal features at school in the last 2 months

Table

Unit %

Academic Year 2022-2023 Academic Year 2021-2022 Academic Year 2018-2019 Academic Year 2015-2016
Province
New Brunswick
17.5
17.2 - 17.8
15.7
14.5
15.0
Health zones
Zone 1 - Moncton and South-East Area
17.3
16.7 - 17.8
16.5
14.9
15.3
Zone 2 - Fundy Shore and Saint John Area
18.7
18.1 - 19.4
15.5
15.6
15.5
Zone 3 - Fredericton and River Valley Area
18.1
17.4 - 18.8
16.4
14.6
16.7
Zone 4 - Madawaska and North-West Area
16.5
15.3 - 17.7
14.4
12.2
11.6
Zone 5 - Restigouche Area
17.4
15.7 - 19.2
15.7
16.6
13.8
Zone 6 - Bathurst and Acadian Peninsula Area
13.8
12.8 - 14.8
12.6
11.7
10.9
Zone 7 - Miramichi Area
17.6
16.3 - 18.9
15.3
12.0
15.8
Communities
Bathurst, Beresford, Petit-Rocher Area
15.9
14.4 - 17.5
14.1
13.2
15.5
Bouctouche, Richibucto, Saint-Antoine Area
18.9
17.0 - 20.8
16.0
18.0
19.0
Campbellton, Atholville, Tide Head Area
18.2
15.8 - 20.5
14.8
13.1
12.4
Caraquet, Paquetville, Bertrand Area
11.6
9.3 - 14.0
9.3
10.8
8.2
Dalhousie, Balmoral, Belledune Area
16.4
13.6 - 19.2
17.1
21.7
15.2
Dieppe and Memramcook
12.6
11.3 - 13.9
12.9
14.3
10.2
Douglas, Saint Marys, Doaktown Area
20.3
16.3 - 24.3
18.3
18.8
23.9
Edmundston, Rivière-Verte, Lac Baker Area
16.2
14.6 - 17.8
14.7
13.4
10.6
Florenceville-Bristol, Woodstock, Wakefield Area
15.5
14.0 - 17.0
15.6
12.5
14.5
Fredericton
17.6
16.6 - 18.5
15.3
13.9
14.9
Grand Bay-Westfield, Westfield, Greenwich Area
n/a
15.6
12.9
13.5
Grand Falls, Saint-Léonard, Drummond Area
18.9
16.8 - 20.9
14.8
13.7
14.4
Hillsborough, Riverside-Albert, Alma Area
25.0
19.8 - 30.2
15.4
18.4
17.0
Kedgwick, Saint-Quentin and Grimmer
11.1
8.2 - 14.1
12.0
5.6
7.8
Minto, Chipman, Cambridge-Narrows Area
20.8
17.5 - 24.1
16.3
18.0
16.5
Miramichi, Rogersville, Blackville Area
17.5
16.1 - 18.9
14.9
11.9
15.8
Moncton
17.6
16.8 - 18.5
16.6
13.8
15.7
Nackawic, McAdam, Canterbury Area
17.8
14.7 - 20.8
21.6
14.4
16.1
Neguac, Alnwick, Esgenoopetitj Area
18.5
14.3 - 22.7
19.1
13.0
15.5
New Maryland, Kingsclear, Lincoln Area
18.6
15.1 - 22.1
17.0
17.1
16.6
Oromocto, Gagetown, Fredericton Junction Area
18.6
17.0 - 20.3
17.0
15.8
18.4
Perth-Andover, Plaster Rock, Tobique Area
26.3
22.9 - 29.6
21.9
17.8
22.9
Quispamsis, Rothesay, Hampton Area
16.5
15.4 - 17.6
14.2
13.3
14.4
Riverview and Coverdale
18.5
16.7 - 20.2
16.8
16.6
14.8
Sackville, Dorchester, Port Elgin Area
19.1
16.3 - 21.9
17.5
12.9
15.4
Saint John, Simonds and Musquash
19.5
18.5 - 20.5
15.7
16.7
16.0
Salisbury and Petitcodiac
19.4
17.2 - 21.7
20.4
17.2
16.7
Shediac, Beaubassin East and Cap-Pelé
16.1
13.8 - 18.4
19.3
13.6
15.1
Shippagan, Lamèque, Inkerman Area
11.5
9.2 - 13.8
11.7
8.8
8.2
St. George, Grand Manan, Blacks Harbour Area
22.3
19.2 - 25.4
18.1
16.0
18.2
St. Stephen, Saint Andrews, Campobello Island Area
18.4
16.2 - 20.6
14.4
13.9
14.0
Sussex, Norton, Sussex Corner Area
19.0
17.0 - 21.0
17.1
18.6
16.2
Tracadie and Saint-Isidore
12.8
10.9 - 14.7
12.6
10.8
9.3
School districts
Anglophone East School District
19.2
18.4 - 19.9
17.8
15.3
16.2
Anglophone North School District
19.9
18.8 - 21.0
15.9
14.8
17.9
Anglophone South School District
18.7
18.1 - 19.4
15.6
15.5
15.5
Anglophone West School District
18.3
17.6 - 18.9
16.6
14.5
16.8
Anglophone sector
18.8
18.4 - 19.2
16.5
15.0
16.4
District scolaire francophone Nord-Est
13.3
12.3 - 14.2
13.1
12.0
9.6
District scolaire francophone Nord-Ouest
15.7
14.4 - 16.9
13.9
11.8
10.2
District scolaire francophone Sud
14.1
13.3 - 14.9
14.0
14.2
13.5
Francophone sector
14.1
13.6 - 14.7
13.7
13.0
11.5
Grades
Grades 6 to 8
19.6
19.1 - 20.1
17.7
17.4
16.0
Grades 9 to 12
16.0
15.6 - 16.4
14.2
12.4
14.3
Gender
Woman/Girl
18.0
17.5 - 18.5
16.1
n/a
n/a
Man/Boy
15.2
14.8 - 15.7
13.0
n/a
n/a
Non-binary
32.8
31.1 - 34.6
30.0
n/a
n/a
Sex at birth
Female
19.3
18.9 - 19.8
17.9
15.0
n/a
Male
15.4
15.0 - 15.8
13.0
13.9
n/a
Sexual identity
Minority sexual identity
25.7
24.9 - 26.5
24.3
n/a
n/a
Heterosexual
15.5
15.1 - 15.8
13.3
n/a
n/a
LGBTQ2+ Status
LGBTQ2+ person
25.8
25.0 - 26.6
24.2
n/a
n/a
Non LGBTQ2+ person
15.4
15.1 - 15.8
13.3
n/a
n/a
Race
White
15.7
15.3 - 16.0
14.1
n/a
n/a
South Asian
26.9
23.5 - 30.4
21.4
n/a
n/a
Other
25.2
22.7 - 27.7
24.6
n/a
n/a
Middle Eastern
31.0
28.4 - 33.6
23.0
n/a
n/a
Latino
24.4
21.7 - 27.1
21.2
n/a
n/a
East/Southeast Asian
23.3
21.6 - 25.0
20.0
n/a
n/a
Black
31.1
29.3 - 32.9
28.8
n/a
n/a
Indigenous identity
Indigenous
30.2
28.6 - 31.8
25.9
22.6
26.3
Non-Indigenous
16.0
15.7 - 16.3
14.7
13.7
14.3
Food poverty
Food poverty
32.9
31.5 - 34.4
30.6
n/a
n/a
No food poverty
16.3
16.0 - 16.6
14.6
n/a
n/a
Immigrant
Immigrants
21.8
20.8 - 22.8
19.3
21.5
n/a
Non-immigrants
16.9
16.6 - 17.3
15.3
13.7
n/a
Special needs
Has a special need
25.4
24.8 - 26.0
22.2
n/a
n/a
No special need
13.2
12.9 - 13.5
12.1
n/a
n/a
n/a = Not applicable / not available
S = Data suppressed due to confidentiality requirements and/or small sample size

About

This indicator is the percentage of students in grades 6 to 12 who report having been bullied by use of mean comments about their race, religion, or personal features at school in the last 2 months.

Source

New Brunswick Health Council, Student Wellness Survey - Grades 6-12

Calculations

This indicator is calculated by dividing the number of respondents who answered "yes" by the number of respondents who answered "yes or no" to the question: In the last two months, have you been bullied at school in the ways listed below: f) Someone made mean comments about your race, religion or personal features.

Notes

Users are advised to exercise caution if comparing data from the community of Grand Bay-Westfield, Westfield, Greenwich Area to other New Brunswick communities. The data for the community of Grand Bay-Westfield, Westfield, Greenwich Area is based on students in grades 6 to 8, while data from the other communities are based on students in grades 6 to 12. Survey results are assigned to communities based on the location of the school. The community of Grand Bay-Westfield, Westfield, Greenwich Area does not have any schools with grades 9 to 12.

Unit

%

Interpretation

Lower is better

NBHC code

SH_BUV06_1

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