Description for chart 2
Victims of violent crime, selected offences, by most serious weapon present, Canada, 2012

The title of the graph is "Chart 2 Victims of violent crime, selected offences, by most serious weapon present, Canada, 2012."
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 10 categories in the vertical axis. The horizontal axis starts at 0 and ends at 50 with ticks every 5 points.
There are 2 series in this graph.
The horizontal axis is "percent of victims."
The vertical axis is "Selected offences."
The title of series 1 is " Firearm."
The minimum value is 0.2 and it corresponds to "Criminal harrassment."
The maximum value is 41.9 and it corresponds to "Attempted murder."
The title of series 2 is " Other weapon1."
The minimum value is 4.2 and it corresponds to "Sexual assault and Extortion."
The maximum value is 48.8 and it corresponds to "Homicide and Attempted murder."

Data table for chart 2
  Firearm Other weapon1
Total violent offences 2.0 16.9
Criminal harrassment 0.2 4.6
Sexual assault 0.3 4.2
Assault 0.9 20.3
Uttering threats 1.3 5.3
Extortion 2.2 4.2
Forcible confinement 3.5 13.8
Robbery 12.4 33.3
Homicide 33.9 48.8
Attempted murder 41.9 48.8
1.
Includes all weapons other than firearms, such as knives, clubs or blunt instruments, poison, motor vehicles, ligature, or fire.
Note:
Excludes Quebec due to the large proportion of cases where the most serious weapon present was reported as unknown.
Source:
Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR2) Survey.
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