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Table 8
Victims of homicide and accused persons, by sex, Canada, 1997 to 2007

Year	Victims					Accused
	Males		Females		Total	Males		Females		Total
	number	percent	number	percent	number	number	percent	number	percent	number
1. Total of accused excludes one person whose gender was reported by police as unknown. 2. Total of accused excludes two persons whose gender was reported by police as unknown. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Homicide Survey.
1997¹	381	65.0	205	35.0	586	445	85.7	74	14.3	519
1998^r	381	68.3	177	31.7	558	475	88.0	65	12.0	540
1999^r	365	67.8	173	32.2	538	446	90.3	48	9.7	494
2000²	397	72.7	149	27.3	546	423	88.1	57	11.9	480
2001²	392	70.9	161	29.1	553	449	87.5	64	12.5	513
2002^{1, r}	376	64.6	206	35.4	582	484	89.1	59	10.9	543
2003	391	71.2	158	28.8	549	488	88.7	62	11.3	550
2004^r	425	68.1	199	31.9	624	533	89.6	62	10.4	595
2005^r	483	72.9	180	27.1	663	583	90.2	63	9.8	646
2006^r	444	73.3	162	26.7	606	484	86.9	73	13.1	557
2007¹	432	72.7	162	27.3	594	474	89.9	53	10.1	527
Average 1997 to 2006	404	69.5	177	30.5	581	481	88.5	63	11.5	544