Description for chart 5.1
Victims of police-reported family violence, by age group and sex, Canada, 2011

The title of the graph is "Chart 5.1 Victims of police-reported family violence, by age group and sex, Canada, 2011."
This is a column clustered chart.
There are in total 6 categories in the horizontal axis. The vertical axis starts at 0 and ends at 700 with ticks every 100 points.
There are 2 series in this graph.
The vertical axis is "rate per 100,000 population."
The horizontal axis is "Age group of victims (years)."
The title of series 1 is "Female victims."
The minimum value is 67 and it corresponds to "65 and over."
The maximum value is 652 and it corresponds to "25 to 34."
The title of series 2 is "Male victims."
The minimum value is 53 and it corresponds to "65 and over."
The maximum value is 230 and it corresponds to "35 to 44."

Chart 5.1 Victims of police-reported family violence, by age group and sex, Canada, 2011, rate per 100,000 population
  Female victims Male victims
15 to 24 614 226
25 to 34 652 198
35 to 44 639 230
45 to 54 353 187
55 to 64 142 96
65 and over 67 53
Note(s):
Family violence refers to violence committed by spouses (legally married, separated, divorced, common-law partners), children, siblings, and extended family. Excludes incidents where the victim's sex and/or age was unknown. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Victims aged 90 years and older are excluded from analyses due to instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category. Populations based upon July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division.
Source(s): Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Crime Reporting Survey.
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