Why There’s So Much Debate Over The Statistics About College Sexual Assault “ How many college students are the victims of sexual assault while they’re at school? It’s a question that’s harder to answer than you might think. Conflicting data points...

Why There’s So Much Debate Over The Statistics About College Sexual Assault

How many college students are the victims of sexual assault while they’re at school?

It’s a question that’s harder to answer than you might think. Conflicting data points have set off a firestorm of controversy about whether proponents of campus reforms — who emphasize that college rape is all too common — are intentionally misleading Americans about the real scope of the problem.

The argument has arisen again this week thanks to a new federal report released on Thursday by the Department of Justice, which estimates that about 0.6 percent of female college students have been sexually assaulted. That’s obviously a pretty low number, and considerably lower than the statistic that’s frequently cited by the White House in its new anti-rape campaign.

The Obama administration usually points to the results from a 2007 research project called the Campus Sexual Assault Study, which found that an estimated 19 percent of female students are victims of sexual crimes. That’s why the White House frequently asserts that “one in five women” is sexually assaulted while in college.

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