Description for chart 18
Homicides, Alberta and British Columbia, 1981 to 2011

The title of the graph is "Chart 18 Homicides, Alberta and British Columbia, 1981 to 2011."
This is a line chart.
There are in total 31 categories in the horizontal axis. The vertical axis starts at 0 and ends at 4.5 with ticks every 0.5 points.
There are 2 series in this graph.
The vertical axis is "rate per 100,000 population."
The units of the horizontal axis are years from 1981 to 2011.
The title of series 1 is " Alberta."
The minimum value is 1.84 occurring in 1993.
The maximum value is 3.49 occurring in 1992.
The title of series 2 is " British Columbia."
The minimum value is 1.83 occurring in 2010.
The maximum value is 3.9 occurring in 1981.

Chart 18
Homicides, Alberta and British Columbia, 1981 to 2011
Table summary
 This table displays the results of homicides. The information is grouped by year (appearing as row headers), alberta and british columbia, calculated using rate per 100,000 population units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year Alberta British Columbia
rate per 100,000 population
1981 3.18 3.90
1982 2.96 3.79
1983 3.14 3.72
1984 2.26 3.73
1985 2.62 3.80
1986 2.63 2.96
1987 3.00 2.56
1988 2.69 2.57
1989 2.69 2.69
1990 2.91 3.34
1991 3.24 3.79
1992 3.49 3.52
1993 1.84 3.36
1994 2.44 3.07
1995 2.19 3.18
1996 1.91 3.23
1997 2.16 2.94
1998 2.21 2.26
1999 2.07 2.74
2000 1.96 2.10
2001 2.29 2.06
2002 2.24 3.07
2003 2.01 2.28
2004 2.65 2.72
2005 3.25 2.41
2006 2.78 2.55
2007 2.51 2.04
2008 3.06 2.67
2009 2.59 2.65
2010 2.07 1.83
2011 2.88 1.90
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Homicide Survey.
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