Table 4

Prevalence of witnesses, victims, and perpetrators of different types of violence during the past year and over the lifetime by gender, age, and social class among persons aged 15 to 60 in Bogotá, Colombia, 1997

	Gender		Age			Social class
	Male n=1395	Female n=1612	<25 n=926	25–40 n=1411	>40 n=670	1 n=159	2 n=1062	3 n=1293	4 n=403	5–6 n=90
Past year prevalence of
Verbal
Witness	89.1	87.8	91.9	89.7	80.6	73.98	88.6	91.0	90.4	64.9
Victim	73.0	68.6	78.3	72.1	57.2	64.0	73.2	71.0	69.5	52.9
Perpetrator	62.6	54.9	65.4	60.0	45.6	38.2	56.7	63.5	59.5	37.5
Mild physical
Witness	66.5	58.6	73.0	60.7	50.8	39.5	66.2	66.2	56.5	25.7
Victim	33.2	25.4	38.7	28.3	17.3	25.6	31.8	29.3	27.3	6.7
Perpetrator	28.9	26.5	32.6	26.7	22.7	24.2	30.4	27.3	26.3	11.5
Assault
Victim	8.3	3.8	5.7	6.0	5.9	11.8	7.8	3.9	6.1	0.4
Perpetrator	3.8	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.4	0.0	0.4	0.2	0.4	0.0
Sexual
Victim	0.5	0.8	1.3	0.4	0.0	2.5	0.8	0.3	0.2	0.0
Perpetrator	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0

Lifetime prevalence
Theft
Witness	66.8	61.9	68.5	64.7	57.1	40.5	61.1	67.4	71.0	65.5
Victim	51.9	49.6	49.7	50.9	51.4	31.7	47.8	52.4	58.0	60.5
Perpetrator	8.4	4.5	8.2	5.8	4.5	0.5	7.3	6.6	5.7	3.1
Assault
Witness	80.0	63.6	73.8	72.3	65.1	64.0	72.8	70.5	74.1	61.0
Victim	64.9	48.3	57.9	57.1	51.0	48.6	55.3	57.9	56.7	47.4
Perpetrator	9.1	2.8	4.4	6.6	5.8	3.5	5.4	4.8	10.5	5.8
Sexual
Witness	9.3	9.2	9.4	11.4	4.6	12.9	8.6	8.7	12.4	5.1
Victim	1.4	8.6	5.9	6.4	2.2	16.0	5.3	3.6	6.8	2.9
Perpetrator	0.8	0.1	0.2	0.7	0.2	0.0	0.2	0.4	1.4	1.2