Description for chart 7

The title of the graph is "Chart 7 Persons accused of sexual offences against children and youth, by age of accused, Canada, 2012."
This is a column clustered chart.
There are in total 39 categories in the horizontal axis. The vertical axis starts at 0 and ends at 120 with ticks every 20 points.
There are 1 series in this graph.
The vertical axis is "rate per 100,000 population ."
The horizontal axis is "age of accused (years)."
The minimum value is 9 and it corresponds to "50 and over."
The maximum value is 117 and it corresponds to "13."

Data table for chart 7
age of accused (years) rate per 100,000 population
12 66
13 117
14 115
15 101
16 95
17 85
18 59
19 54
20 52
21 43
22 34
23 34
24 33
25 26
26 28
27 17
28 24
29 26
30 24
31 29
32 28
33 25
34 24
35 33
36 28
37 36
38 26
39 24
40 24
41 21
42 23
43 21
44 18
45 21
46 19
47 16
48 20
49 13
50 and over 9
Notes:
The sexual offences in this chart include aggravated sexual assault (level 3), sexual assault with a weapon or causing bodily harm (level 2), sexual assault (level 1), sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching, sexual exploitation, sexual exploitation of a person with a disability, incest, corrupting children, making sexually explicit material available to children, luring a child via a computer, anal intercourse, bestiality (commit/compel/incite), and voyeurism. Includes victims under the age of 18 only. Rates are based on a subset of incidents where there was a single accused person and a single victim. Excludes a small number of victims in Quebec whose age was unknown but miscoded as 0.
Source:
Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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