Risk behaviours in school-aged children in Luxembourg

This report provides information on risk behaviours of adolescents aged 11 to 18 years old attending Luxembourg public and private schools whose teaching is based on the national curriculum in 2022.
The prevalence in most risk behaviours has decreased or has been stable in most areas since 2018. The prevalence of cannabis users and problematic social media users has increased over this period, however. Overall, age, family structure, and type of school involved the largest differences. The older a respondent was, the higher the probability of engaging in risk behaviours. This age pattern was only partly reflected in the relation between such behaviours and the type of school attended. In most cases, differences between ESG pupils and ESC pupils were found. Attendees of ESG formation professionnelle exhibited a higher probability to engage in risk behaviours than attendees of other types of school. Living with both parents played a protective role against risk behaviours in a large majority of cases. Gender, migration background, and family affluence related less systematically to risk behaviours than age, family structure, and type of school.
This report further explores bullying victimisation in school. Gender, family structure and type of school are the factors associated with bullying. In addition, adolescents who had not been bullied exhibited higher levels of well-being then adolescents who had been bullied, with the exception of ESG voie de préparation attendees (no significant difference was found).