## What it measures Adolescent girls reporting cyberbullying victimization is the canonical measurable outcome used to reconcile catalog item 118. It belongs to **Digital Well-Being, Access, and Safety**, the part of the welfare catalog concerned with meaningful connectivity, digital inclusion, online access, and the security of digital participation. The exact stored unit is **percent of adolescent girls**, the geographic presentation is global, the data publisher is **World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe**, and the immutable numerical identity is `PUBLISHED-REPORT#WHO-HBSC-PEER-VIOLENCE-2022-FIGURE-5#identity`. Candidate 118 is broader or differently denominated than “Adolescent girls reporting cyberbullying victimization” in percent of adolescent girls. Factrail stores this narrower source-defined measure, preserves the input wording in reconciliation, and makes no claim that the values measure the broader phrase. For catalog item 118, the provider definition is: Share of 11-, 13-, and 15-year-old girls reporting that they had been cyberbullied at least once or twice in the past couple of months. That definition controls the denominator, population, reporting instrument, and statistical meaning. The Russian seed wording does not override it, and provider units and denominators remain unchanged. This Indicator records an observed outcome; it does not assert why that outcome changed. Welfare assessment for item 118 uses `lower_is_better`. Lower observations are treated as better welfare relative to the dated comparative reference. The direction applies to the stored official measure after the disclosed transformation, if any, rather than being inferred from an emotionally positive or negative title. No mathematical transformation is applied before persistence. Keeping title, series identity, unit, scope, transformation, and interpretation together prevents the record from mixing incompatible measurement concepts. ## How it is measured The numerical observations for catalog item 118 were retrieved from **A focus on adolescent peer violence and bullying in Europe, central Asia and Canada** through https://iris.who.int/server/api/core/bitstreams/1d8d101a-e414-4635-a1dc-5cb50ed2b5da/content. The provider landing page is https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/376323. The research package records the access date, exact dataset and series identifiers, dimension key `report=WHO-HBSC-PEER-VIOLENCE-2022-FIGURE-5`, unit, provider metadata, transformation, and yearly aggregation label. The bounded Source and Evidence records can therefore reproduce which numbers were used without treating a generic homepage as row-level proof. Measurement provenance for item 118 follows this provider method: The World Bank world aggregate is retained when it exists for a year; otherwise Factrail records a disclosed unweighted mean of reporting economies for the same exact indicator code. The aggregation label on every point distinguishes those two cases. 2018 combines 40 reporting economies; 2022 combines 44 reporting economies. The output keeps full numerical precision through NormalLine, deviation, and interpretation calculations. Display clients may round for readability, but the persisted value is not squeezed into a zero-to-one score and is not rounded before calculation. The item 118 NormalLine starts on 2018-01-01 at **13.75 percent of adolescent girls**. 25th percentile of provider-published reporting-economy observations in the selected series and dimensions. The calculation keeps the source unit, dimensions, and transformation fixed and is a comparative reference rather than an invented statutory target. For `zero_is_norm`, the value is exactly zero and is never relaxed because non-zero observations are common. For other interpretation modes, the benchmark is empirical and versioned: a later provider revision can justify a new dated line, but it does not silently rewrite the research package used for this seed. For every item 118 point, `normal_line_value` copies that dated line and `deviation_from_normal` is stored in raw-unit terms as observation minus NormalLine. Arithmetic sign and welfare sign are separate. A positive raw deviation is adverse for `lower_is_better`, favourable for `higher_is_better`, and adverse above zero for `zero_is_norm`. The custom governance score retains its provider scale and uses the public methodology explanation rather than title sentiment. ## What the data shows The complete retained sequence is 2018: 13 percent of adolescent girls; 2022: 16 percent of adolescent girls. The first observation is **13 percent of adolescent girls in 2018** and the latest is **16 percent of adolescent girls in 2022**. The absolute change is 3 percent of adolescent girls, equivalent to 23.0769230769% of the absolute starting level. The minimum observed value is 13 percent of adolescent girls, and the maximum is 16 percent of adolescent girls. For catalog item 118, the latest observation differs from the NormalLine by **2.25 percent of adolescent girls** and is classified as **negative** under `lower_is_better`. That classification is a deterministic comparison, not a causal explanation or editorial verdict. A movement may reflect real change, altered reporting coverage, revised estimates, a changed survey frame, or several of those at once. There are 2 retained item 118 observations in the selected 2018-2025 research window. HBSC is fielded on a four-year survey cycle. The report supplies the two comparable 2018 and 2022 waves; intervening years are not observations and are not interpolated. Missing years are absent observations, not zeroes. The sequence is intentionally irregular when the official source is irregular, because a smooth-looking line created by invented values would be methodologically false. The displayed global item 118 sequence has one consistent numerical identity: `PUBLISHED-REPORT#WHO-HBSC-PEER-VIOLENCE-2022-FIGURE-5#identity`. No second source series is spliced into a gap, no latest value is copied into a missing year, and no country-only observation is relabelled as a World value. If the source later adds or revises an observation, the update must arrive as a new reviewed research package with its own checksum and audit record. ## Drivers and interpretation Adolescent girls reporting cyberbullying victimization can be associated with economic, institutional, demographic, environmental, behavioural, or service-delivery mechanisms, but this seed does not create a DriverIndicatorImpact from topical resemblance. A defensible graph edge requires an existing Driver, direction, strength, lag, confidence, and Source/Evidence that supports the mechanism. The outcome series alone cannot establish that causal chain. For item 118, importance weight **0.8500000000000001** is generated by `indicator-importance-rubric-v1`. Its five committed components are directness 0.85, population reach 0.85, persistence 0.9, effect on human capabilities 0.85, and overlap control 0.85. The formula weights them 0.35, 0.25, 0.20, 0.15, and 0.05, then rounds to the nearest 0.05. The value is deterministic and reproducible; it is not an intuitive score assigned while drafting prose. ## Limitations and caveats Candidate 118 is broader or differently denominated than “Adolescent girls reporting cyberbullying victimization” in percent of adolescent girls. Factrail stores this narrower source-defined measure, preserves the input wording in reconciliation, and makes no claim that the values measure the broader phrase. The correction preserves all 120 catalog candidates as auditable inputs while refusing to fabricate a literal series that the selected official systems do not publish coherently. The resulting canonical Indicator may be narrower, differently denominated, or differently scoped than the preliminary phrase, and that difference is part of the record rather than hidden in a footnote. The 2018-2022 sequence for item 118 is too short for strong causal or structural claims. Cross-economy comparability can be affected by institutional definitions, survey coverage, modelled estimates, missing observations, classification practices, revisions, and unequal statistical capacity. A global aggregate or unweighted reporting-economy mean can also conceal distributional extremes and should not be used as an individual-level estimate. The item 118 NormalLine is a transparent comparative reference, not a claim that every jurisdiction has the same legal target or feasible frontier. The source may revise both historical points and metadata. Any later refresh must preserve the earlier Source, Evidence, checksum, and audit trail; it must not mutate the meaning of an already reviewed series identity.
How to read it
Lower is better — readings above the norm count as worse, so they plot downward here.
Measured value over time. Lower is better here, so the line runs green below the dashed norm and red above it.
Each driver linked to this indicator, strongest pull first, on the same timeline above. Markers are the facts that moved that driver. These are modelled influences — treat them as correlational unless a documented causal edge is shown.
No drivers are linked to this indicator yet.
Adolescent girls reporting cyberbullying victimization is the canonical measurable outcome used to reconcile catalog item 118. It belongs to Digital Well-Being, Access, and Safety, the part of the welfare catalog concerned with meaningful connectivity, digital inclusion, online access, and the security of digital participation. The exact stored unit is percent of adolescent girls, the geographic presentation is global, the data publisher is World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, and the immutable numerical identity is PUBLISHED-REPORT#WHO-HBSC-PEER-VIOLENCE-2022-FIGURE-5#identity. Candidate 118 is broader or differently denominated than “Adolescent girls reporting cyberbullying victimization” in percent of adolescent girls. Factrail stores this narrower source-defined measure, preserves the input wording in reconciliation, and makes no claim that the values measure the broader phrase.
For catalog item 118, the provider definition is: Share of 11-, 13-, and 15-year-old girls reporting that they had been cyberbullied at least once or twice in the past couple of months. That definition controls the denominator, population, reporting instrument, and statistical meaning. The Russian seed wording does not override it, and provider units and denominators remain unchanged. This Indicator records an observed outcome; it does not assert why that outcome changed.
Welfare assessment for item 118 uses lower_is_better. Lower observations are treated as better welfare relative to the dated comparative reference. The direction applies to the stored official measure after the disclosed transformation, if any, rather than being inferred from an emotionally positive or negative title. No mathematical transformation is applied before persistence. Keeping title, series identity, unit, scope, transformation, and interpretation together prevents the record from mixing incompatible measurement concepts.
The numerical observations for catalog item 118 were retrieved from A focus on adolescent peer violence and bullying in Europe, central Asia and Canada through https://iris.who.int/server/api/core/bitstreams/1d8d101a-e414-4635-a1dc-5cb50ed2b5da/content (opens in a new tab). The provider landing page is https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/376323 (opens in a new tab). The research package records the access date, exact dataset and series identifiers, dimension key report=WHO-HBSC-PEER-VIOLENCE-2022-FIGURE-5, unit, provider metadata, transformation, and yearly aggregation label. The bounded Source and Evidence records can therefore reproduce which numbers were used without treating a generic homepage as row-level proof.
Measurement provenance for item 118 follows this provider method: The World Bank world aggregate is retained when it exists for a year; otherwise Factrail records a disclosed unweighted mean of reporting economies for the same exact indicator code. The aggregation label on every point distinguishes those two cases. 2018 combines 40 reporting economies; 2022 combines 44 reporting economies. The output keeps full numerical precision through NormalLine, deviation, and interpretation calculations. Display clients may round for readability, but the persisted value is not squeezed into a zero-to-one score and is not rounded before calculation.
The item 118 NormalLine starts on 2018-01-01 at 13.75 percent of adolescent girls. 25th percentile of provider-published reporting-economy observations in the selected series and dimensions. The calculation keeps the source unit, dimensions, and transformation fixed and is a comparative reference rather than an invented statutory target. For zero_is_norm, the value is exactly zero and is never relaxed because non-zero observations are common. For other interpretation modes, the benchmark is empirical and versioned: a later provider revision can justify a new dated line, but it does not silently rewrite the research package used for this seed.
For every item 118 point, normal_line_value copies that dated line and deviation_from_normal is stored in raw-unit terms as observation minus NormalLine. Arithmetic sign and welfare sign are separate. A positive raw deviation is adverse for lower_is_better, favourable for higher_is_better, and adverse above zero for zero_is_norm. The custom governance score retains its provider scale and uses the public methodology explanation rather than title sentiment.
The complete retained sequence is 2018: 13 percent of adolescent girls; 2022: 16 percent of adolescent girls. The first observation is 13 percent of adolescent girls in 2018 and the latest is 16 percent of adolescent girls in 2022. The absolute change is 3 percent of adolescent girls, equivalent to 23.0769230769% of the absolute starting level. The minimum observed value is 13 percent of adolescent girls, and the maximum is 16 percent of adolescent girls.
For catalog item 118, the latest observation differs from the NormalLine by 2.25 percent of adolescent girls and is classified as negative under lower_is_better. That classification is a deterministic comparison, not a causal explanation or editorial verdict. A movement may reflect real change, altered reporting coverage, revised estimates, a changed survey frame, or several of those at once.
There are 2 retained item 118 observations in the selected 2018-2025 research window. HBSC is fielded on a four-year survey cycle. The report supplies the two comparable 2018 and 2022 waves; intervening years are not observations and are not interpolated. Missing years are absent observations, not zeroes. The sequence is intentionally irregular when the official source is irregular, because a smooth-looking line created by invented values would be methodologically false.
The displayed global item 118 sequence has one consistent numerical identity: PUBLISHED-REPORT#WHO-HBSC-PEER-VIOLENCE-2022-FIGURE-5#identity. No second source series is spliced into a gap, no latest value is copied into a missing year, and no country-only observation is relabelled as a World value. If the source later adds or revises an observation, the update must arrive as a new reviewed research package with its own checksum and audit record.
Adolescent girls reporting cyberbullying victimization can be associated with economic, institutional, demographic, environmental, behavioural, or service-delivery mechanisms, but this seed does not create a DriverIndicatorImpact from topical resemblance. A defensible graph edge requires an existing Driver, direction, strength, lag, confidence, and Source/Evidence that supports the mechanism. The outcome series alone cannot establish that causal chain.
For item 118, importance weight 0.8500000000000001 is generated by indicator-importance-rubric-v1. Its five committed components are directness 0.85, population reach 0.85, persistence 0.9, effect on human capabilities 0.85, and overlap control 0.85. The formula weights them 0.35, 0.25, 0.20, 0.15, and 0.05, then rounds to the nearest 0.05. The value is deterministic and reproducible; it is not an intuitive score assigned while drafting prose.
Candidate 118 is broader or differently denominated than “Adolescent girls reporting cyberbullying victimization” in percent of adolescent girls. Factrail stores this narrower source-defined measure, preserves the input wording in reconciliation, and makes no claim that the values measure the broader phrase. The correction preserves all 120 catalog candidates as auditable inputs while refusing to fabricate a literal series that the selected official systems do not publish coherently. The resulting canonical Indicator may be narrower, differently denominated, or differently scoped than the preliminary phrase, and that difference is part of the record rather than hidden in a footnote.
The 2018-2022 sequence for item 118 is too short for strong causal or structural claims. Cross-economy comparability can be affected by institutional definitions, survey coverage, modelled estimates, missing observations, classification practices, revisions, and unequal statistical capacity. A global aggregate or unweighted reporting-economy mean can also conceal distributional extremes and should not be used as an individual-level estimate.
The item 118 NormalLine is a transparent comparative reference, not a claim that every jurisdiction has the same legal target or feasible frontier. The source may revise both historical points and metadata. Any later refresh must preserve the earlier Source, Evidence, checksum, and audit trail; it must not mutate the meaning of an already reviewed series identity.
Factrail hasn’t mapped a verified causal chain for this indicator yet. This reflects the relationships currently captured in the graph.