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

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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
2006r 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