Description for chart 2.2
Incidents of murder-suicide by accused-victim relationship, Canada, 2001 to 2011

The title of the graph is "Chart 2.2 Incidents of murder-suicide by accused-victim relationship, Canada, 2001 to 2011."
This is a bar clustered chart.
This is a horizontal bar graph, so categories are on the vertical axis and values on the horizontal axis.
There are in total 13 categories in the vertical axis. The horizontal axis starts at 0 and ends at 50 with ticks every 5 points.
There are 1 series in this graph.
The horizontal axis is "percent of murder-suicides."
The vertical axis is "Accused-victim relationship."
The title of series 1 is "percent of murder-suicides ."
The minimum value is 0.3 and it corresponds to "Females killing their dating or intimate partner and Females killing their parent(s)."
The maximum value is 46 and it corresponds to "Males killing their spouse."

Chart 2.2 Incidents of murder-suicide by accused-victim relationship, Canada, 2001 to 2011
  percent of murder-suicides
Females killing their dating or intimate partner 0.3
Females killing their parent(s) 0.3
Females killing their spouse and their child/children 0.6
Females killing their spouse 0.9
Males killing a stranger 2
Females killing their child/children 3
Males killing other family members 3
Males killing their parent(s) 5
Males killing their spouse and their child/children 6
Males killing their child/children 9
Males killing their dating or intimate partner 9
Males killing an acquaintance(s) 12
Males killing their spouse 46
Note(s):
Excludes incidents where the sex and/or age of victim was unknown and where the relationship between the victim and the accused was unknown.
Source(s): Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Homicide Survey.
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