2001 US National Responses Carrying a Weapon « Survey Intro and Options

Nationwide, 5.7% of students had carried a gun on >1 of the 30 days preceding the survey. Male students (10.3%) were significantly more likely than female students (1.3%) to have carried a gun. This significant sex difference was identified for all the racial/ethnic and grade subpopulations. Prevalence of carrying a gun varied threefold from 2.9% to 10.1% (median: 5%), across state surveys and varied fivefold from 1.3% to 7.1% (median: 4.8%), across local surveys.