Below are some interesting trends we found related to maltreatment, in various forms. We wanted to see if the State of Indiana is consistent with the national trend.
Here is a bar graph that shows some basic, but important information on how race potentially plays a role in the likelihood of physical abuse. This is an important trend to investigate because it offers more insight on the maltreatment that occurs in Indiana.
Here is a bar graph that shows some basic, but important information on how gender may play a role in the likelihood of sexual abuse. We can see a correlation here that females are more likely to experience sexual abuse.
Here is a bar graph that shows the change in fatality rate for boys over the years 2003 to 2020. We see a general increase over the years.
Here is a bar graph that shows the change in fatality rate for girls over the years 2003 to 2020. We see a general increase over the years. There is a sudden dip around 2013, but spikes back up in 2017. That is something interesting to potentially investigate.
Here is some more information in a bar graph that compares sex trafficking on the basis of gender in Indiana. This is important information to understand because it shows a significant difference in the amount of girls and boys that are trafficked in Indiana.
This information further parallels the last graph, but on a much wider scale. We still see a very distinct difference in sex trafficking on the basis of gender.
An analysis on online bullying on the basis of gender produced similar results regardless of gender. This will be the general trend as we dive deeper and examine other forms of bullying on a bigger scale.
Like mentioned before, online bullying on the basis of gender produced very similar results; this bar graph makes them look nearly identical. There is no correlation, or distinct difference, for online bullying in the USA.
School bullying on gender produced close results, but we saw bullying for girls to be a bit more in the state of Indiana.
We compare the previous findings by complimenting it with an analysis on a national level. From here, we saw school bullying take a huge rise.
There is some interesting information that could be further examined. For example, we could
look more into
the various abuses (physical and sexual) and see if there are more correlations. Gender and race are two
categories that are prevalent commonalities in many trends, but we are sure that other commonalities lie
outside of the data set.
There is also great information provided on bullying, and although there is not a correlation, the numbers
are awfully high. There can be more investigation into the various reasons for bullying, and whether or not
there is a reason that is more prevalent in boys than girls, or vice versa.