Table 6
Characteristics of persons accused of hate crimes, by motivation, Canada, 2012

Table summary
This table displays the results of Characteristics of persons accused of hate crimes, by motivation. The information is grouped by Characteristic (appearing as row headers), Race or ethnicity, Religion, Sexual orientation, Other, Unknown and Total, calculated using percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Characteristic	Race or ethnicity	Religion	Sexual orientation	Other^Note 1	Unknown	Total
Characteristic	percent
Sex^Note 2
Male	86	88	77	86	73	84
Female	14	12	23	14	27	16
Total	100	100	100	100	100	100
Age^Note 3
12 to 17 years	36	37	45	23	13	36
18 to 24 years	21	19	21	18	27	21
25 to 34 years	17	12	7	9	40	15
35 to 44 years	9	10	13	23	13	11
45 to 54 years	9	17	9	9	7	10
55 years and older	7	6	5	18	0	7
Total	100	100	100	100	100	100
Note 1. Includes mental or physical disability, language, sex and other similar factors (e.g. occupation or political beliefs). Return to note 1 referrer Note 2. Excludes accused where sex is unknown. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3. Excludes accused where age is unknown or over 89. Return to note 3 referrer Note: Information in this table regarding the nature of offence reflects data reported by police services covering 86% of the population of Canada. It does not include police services reporting to the UCR2.2 Supplemental Survey in Toronto, Calgary, Quebec and Saint John. Records where reported age is under 12 are not included in this analysis. Percentages do not always add to 100% due to rounding. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.

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