Kids USA Survey Home
"Censorship" Answers
Does censorship protect kids? (Results by region)
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- In the Central region and the Southeast.
- The Northeast. Seventy-eight percent of kids from the Northeast felt that censorship does not protect them.
- The vote was closest in the Southeast. Fifty-four percent felt that censorship did not protect them, while 46 percent felt that it did.
- The majority of kids in the central region felt that censorship does help protect them. The majority of kids in the Northeast, Southeast, and West regions disagreed.
Does censorship protect kids? (Results by gender)
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- Sixty-five percent of boys and 60 percent of girls said that censorship did not help protect them.
- Compare the pie charts below with the ones you drew.
Good reasons for censorship (Results by gender)
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- The top three reasons kids picked were pornography, sexism, and racism, in that order.
- Yes, boys and girls agreed on what the most important reasons were.
- Kids chose violence as the least important reason to censor material. However, girls and boys did not agree on what was least important. Girls said it was bad language, while boys said it was violence.
Who should decide? (Results by grade level)
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- The statement that won the most votes was that kids should be able to decide for themselves what is appropriate. However, this statement did not achieve a majority — only 46 percent of kids voted this way.
- a. Forty-three percent of kids in grades K-5 voted this way.
b. Fifty percent of kids in grades 6-8 voted this way.
c. Forty-six percent of the total number of kids voted this way.
- Twenty-one percent
