When the data you have aren’t the data you need: The availability of school-related violence data in low- and middle-income countries
梳理中低收入国家校园暴力数据，发现多数国家缺乏有效应对暴力所需的数据，尤其缺少性暴力、低龄儿童及弱势群体的数据，并提供调查数据集与改进建议。
• We review data on school-related violence and find that countries lack data to act effectively against such violence. • International surveys primarily focus on physical and psychological violence, largely ignoring sexual violence. • Two-thirds of countries cannot track changes in school violence over time. • Most countries lack data on violence among younger children, LGBTQ + children, and children with disabilities. • We provide a dataset of surveys with school-related violence questions and recommendations to increase data availability. Violence in schools—which surveys demonstrate is a challenge across countries—is associated with worse educational and life outcomes. Yet documenting the prevalence of sexual, physical, and psychological violence in schools is just the first piece of data that policymakers and partners need to act effectively against school-related violence. In this study, we review the availability of data on school-related violence from international surveys administered across low- and middle-income countries, as well as national surveys in a sample of countries. We find that most countries lack the data to answer simple questions that policymakers might ask as precursors to taking action against school-related violence, to understand the consequences of violence, or to monitor progress on reducing violence. For example, only one in six countries has data to measure how many children have recently experienced sexual violence from school staff. The gaps in data are biggest for younger children. We provide a dataset of international surveys with school-related violence questions and recommendations to increase the available, actionable data related to school-related violence.