Table 3
Youth admissions to correctional services, by the characteristics of the persons admitted and jurisdiction, 2011/2012

Table 3
Youth admissions to correctional services, by the characteristics of the persons admitted and jurisdiction, 2011/2012
Table summary
This table displays the results of Youth admissions to correctional services Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon, Northwest Territories and Total of 9 jurisdictions, calculated using Number units of measure (appearing as column headers).
  Newfoundland and Labrador Prince Edward Island New Brunswick Ontario Manitoba AlbertaNote 1 British Columbia Yukon Northwest Territories Total of 9 jurisdictionsNote 1
number
Sex  
Male 322 287 966 11,225 3,802 4,864 4,551 55 119 26,191
Female 111 36 270 2,733 1,556 1,456 1,515 20 30 7,727
Unknown 1 0 0 0 4 0 1 0 0 6
Aboriginal identityNote 2  
Male Aboriginal youth 8 5 61 930 2,792 1,830 1,683 31 100 7,440
Female Aboriginal youth 0 0 27 415 1,230 695 680 10 30 3,087
Aboriginals - sex unknown 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2
Non-Aboriginal youth 418 67 1,148 6,494 1,338 3,559 3,549 4 19 16,596
Aboriginal identity unknown 8 251 0 6,119 0 236 155 30 0 6,799
Age  
12 years 3 2 7 78 48 31 36 2 1 208
13 years 20 9 42 324 247 144 187 3 2 978
14 years 53 53 143 1,151 552 421 559 3 12 2,947
15 years 74 52 202 2,402 952 647 1,046 13 15 5,403
16 years 106 53 286 3,703 1,384 952 1,527 24 49 8,084
17 years 112 90 348 4,576 1,560 1,209 1,928 21 58 9,902
18 years and older 66 62 208 1,724 618 643 784 9 11 4,125
Age unknown 0 2 0 0 1 2,273 0 0 1 2,277
  Newfoundland and Labrador Prince Edward Island New Brunswick Ontario Manitoba Alberta British Columbia Yukon Northwest Territories Total of 9 jurisdictionsNote 1
percentage
Sex  
Male 74.4 88.9 78.2 80.4 71.0 77.0 75.0 73.3 79.9 77.2
Female 25.6 11.1 21.8 19.6 29.0 23.0 25.0 26.7 20.1 22.8
Aboriginal identityNote 2  
Male Aboriginal youth 1.9 6.9 4.9 11.9 52.1 30.1 28.5 68.9 67.1 27.4
Female Aboriginal youth 0.0 0.0 2.2 5.3 22.9 11.4 11.5 22.2 20.1 11.4
Non-Aboriginal youth 98.1 93.1 92.9 82.8 25.0 58.5 60.0 8.9 12.8 61.2
Age  
12 years 0.7 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.9 0.8 0.6 2.7 0.7 0.7
13 years 4.6 2.8 3.4 2.3 4.6 3.6 3.1 4.0 1.4 3.1
14 years 12.2 16.5 11.6 8.2 10.3 10.4 9.2 4.0 8.1 9.3
15 years 17.1 16.2 16.3 17.2 17.8 16.0 17.2 17.3 10.1 17.1
16 years 24.4 16.5 23.1 26.5 25.8 23.5 25.2 32.0 33.1 25.5
17 years 25.8 28.0 28.2 32.8 29.1 29.9 31.8 28.0 39.2 31.3
18 years and older 15.2 19.3 16.8 12.4 11.5 15.9 12.9 12.0 7.4 13.0
Note 1.

For Alberta, distribution by age was only available for community supervision.

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Note 2.

Includes North American Indians, Métis and Inuits, registered or non-registered. This variable is reported by the youth and the availability of these data varies depending on the jurisdiction.

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Note 3.

Age is not available for custody admissions in Alberta. The age for these admissions is therefore deemed unknown.

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Note: Excludes data from Nova Scotia, Quebec, Saskatchewan and Nunavut given the unavailability of data for the period covered. Admissions are collected each time a person begins any type of custodial or community supervision, and describe and measure the case-flow in correctional services over time. The same person can be included several times in the admission counts where the individual moves from one type of legal status to another (e.g., from open to secure custody) or re-enters the system in the same year. As such, admissions represent the number of entries within a fiscal year to sentenced custody, to remand, and to community supervision regardless of the individual's preceding or following legal status. The calculation methodology used by provincial and territorial departments or agencies may differ from that used by Statistics Canada and may thus produce different results. For example, in Alberta, an admission to custody is counted only once regardless of whether there is a change in status or not.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Integrated Correctional Services Survey and Youth Custody and Community Services Survey.
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