Table 2.3
Victims of spousal murder-suicide, by cause of death and victim-accused relationship, Canada, 2001 to 2011

Table 2.3 Victims of spousal murder-suicide, by cause of death and victim-accused relationship, Canada, 2001 to 2011
Table summary
This table displays the results of table 2.3 victims of spousal murder-suicide. The information is grouped by relationship of accused to victim (appearing as row headers), cause of death, shooting, stabbing, strangulation, suffocation or drowning, beating, other, unknown and total, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Relationship of accused to victim	Cause of death
	Shooting		Stabbing		Strangulation, suffocation or drowning		Beating		Other^Note 1		Unknown		Total
	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent
Legally married spouse	44	47	25	27	12	13	7	7	6	6	1	Note ...: not applicable	95	100
Common-law spouse^Note 2	25	57	9	20	6	14	3	7	1	2	1	Note ...: not applicable	45	100
Separated spouse^Note 3	30	61	7	14	8	16	4	8	0	0	1	Note ...: not applicable	50	100
Divorced spouse	2	40	2	40	0	0	0	0	1	20	0	Note ...: not applicable	5	100
Total	101	53	43	22	26	14	14	7	8	4	3	Note ...: not applicable	195	100
... not applicable Note 1. Includes poisoning or lethal injection, smoke inhalation/burns, and other causes. Note 2. Includes same-sex spouses who are either legally married or living common-law. Note 3. Includes those separated from a legal or common-law relationship. Note: The cause of death represents the cause of death of the victim, not the accused. Excludes incidents where the sex and/or age of victim was unknown. Percentages exclude incidents where cause of death was unknown. Totals may not add to 100% due to rounding. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Homicide Survey.

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