FAM7.B Child maltreatment: Percentage of substantiated maltreatment reports by maltreatment type and age, 2006

Characteristic	Physical Abuse	Neglect	Medical Neglect	Sexual Abuse	Psychological Abuse	Other Abuse	Unknown
Overall	16.0	64.1	2.2	8.8	6.6	15.1	1.2
Age
Ages 0–3	12.1	72.6	2.8	1.8	5.2	16.6	1.2
Ages 4–7	15.3	65.1	1.8	8.2	6.8	14.9	1.2
Ages 4–5	14.4	66.0	1.8	7.8	6.6	15.3	1.2
Ages 6–7	16.3	64.2	1.8	8.7	7.0	14.5	1.2
Ages 8–11	17.1	60.8	1.9	10.7	8.0	14.9	1.1
Ages 12–15	20.1	55.6	2.0	16.5	7.3	13.8	1.1
Ages 16–17	22.1	55.0	1.9	16.0	6.5	14.4	1.0
Unknown or Missing	21.1	59.1	1.9	14.3	8.6	5.0	0.1
NOTE: Based on data from 51 states. The count of child victims is based on the number of investigations by Child Protective Services that found the child to be a victim of one or more types of maltreatment. The count of victims is, therefore, a report-based count and is a "duplicated count," since an individual child may have been maltreated more than once. Substantiated maltreatment includes the dispositions of substantiated, indicated, or alternative response-victim. States vary in their definition of abuse and neglect. Rows total more than 100 percent since a single child may be the victim of multiple kinds of maltreatment. The category of unknown includes missing and children older than 17 years.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System.