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Table 2 Number of shelters for abused women by type of facility, Canada, provinces and territories, 2007/2008
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| Transition house | Second stage housing | Women's emergency centre | Emergency shelter | Safe home network | Other1 | Total, all shelter types | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| number | number | Rate2 | ||||||
| Canada | 265 | 104 | 67 | 77 | 17 | 39 | 569 | 7 |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 11 |
| Prince Edward Island | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 14 |
| Nova Scotia | 11 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 7 |
| New Brunswick | 14 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 12 |
| Quebec | 101 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 126 | 7 |
| Ontario | 49 | 29 | 20 | 47 | 0 | 15 | 160 | 5 |
| Manitoba | 3 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 29 | 11 |
| Saskatchewan | 8 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 24 | 10 |
| Alberta | 4 | 10 | 31 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 50 | 6 |
| British Columbia | 64 | 23 | 1 | 6 | 15 | 1 | 110 | 10 |
| Yukon | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 65 |
| Northwest Territories and Nunavut3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 47 |
Includes Ontario's Family Resource Centres, Manitoba's Interim housing, satellites and other facilities not otherwise classified.
Rates are calculated based on 100,000 population of married, common-law and separated women. Separated includes persons currently married, but who are no longer living with their spouse (for any reason other than illness or work) and have not obtained a divorce. Persons who are separated but who live with a common-law partner are not included. Population estimates are provided by Statistics Canada, Demography Division. Populations as of July 1: preliminary post-censal estimates for 2007.
Due to a limited number of facilities in conjunction with low response rates for Northwest Territories and Nunavut, information for shelters in these territories has been combined, for reasons of confidentiality and data quality.
