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Table 4
Methods used to commit homicide, Canada, 1997 to 2007

Year	Victims
	Shooting		Stabbing		Beating		Strangulation/ suffocation		Shaken Baby Syndrome¹		Fire (smoke inhalation, burns)		Poisoning		Vehicle¹		Other²		Unknown		Total
	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent
Note: Percentages may not add up to 100% due to rounding. 1. Data became available in 1997. 2. Other includes exposure/hypothermia, starvation/dehydration and, prior to 1997, Shaken Baby Syndrome and deaths caused by vehicles. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Homicide Survey.
1997	193	32.9	168	28.7	115	19.6	53	9.0	6	1.0	30	5.1	8	1.4	6	1.0	2	0.3	5	0.9	586	100.0
1998	151	27.1	186	33.3	125	22.4	61	10.9	6	1.1	12	2.2	6	1.1	3	0.5	2	0.4	6	1.1	558	100.0
1999	165	30.7	143	26.6	125	23.2	55	10.2	7	1.3	11	2.0	5	0.9	13	2.4	4	0.7	10	1.9	538	100.0
2000	184	33.7	149	27.3	129	23.6	40	7.3	12	2.2	5	0.9	4	0.7	14	2.6	1	0.2	8	1.5	546	100.0
2001	171	30.9	171	30.9	122	22.1	47	8.5	8	1.4	8	1.4	8	1.4	5	0.9	5	0.9	8	1.4	553	100.0
2002	152	26.1	182	31.3	126	21.6	67	11.5	8	1.4	9	1.5	3	0.5	7	1.2	6	1.0	22	3.8	582	100.0
2003	161	29.3	142	25.9	121	22.0	65	11.8	8	1.5	12	2.2	6	1.1	6	1.1	6	1.1	22	4.0	549	100.0
2004	173	27.7	205	32.9	137	22.0	63	10.1	5	0.8	13	2.1	8	1.3	6	1.0	1	0.2	13	2.1	624	100.0
2005	223	33.6	198	29.9	144	21.7	47	7.1	12	1.8	10	1.5	7	1.1	4	0.6	3	0.5	15	2.3	663	100.0
2006^r	190	31.4	210	34.7	119	19.6	48	7.9	3	0.5	12	2.0	1	0.2	9	1.5	1	0.2	13	2.1	606	100.0
2007	188	31.6	190	32.0	116	19.5	50	8.4	3	0.5	4	0.7	0	0.0	16	2.7	0	0.0	27	4.5	594	100.0