Figure 1 is a chart that details the demographic characteristics of those bullied. As captured in the chart you can see how they break down their characteristics. First starting with gender, then going on to look at grade level next, they look at race and ethnicity and lastly conclude with community setting. Each variable was used/chosen to further explore what kind of other factors come into play when people, children especially have been exposed to bullying. As you can see the demographics are far reaching as they try to capture a variety of different variables over a variety of years starting in 1997 and ending in 2010 with gaps in the data in 1999, 2000, 2003,2004,2007 and 2008. The different variables are used when understanding that school
