Description for chart 4.5

The title of the graph is "Chart 4.5 Senior victims of police-reported family violence, by sex of victim and accused-victim relationship, Canada, 2013."
This is a column clustered chart.
There are in total 4 categories in the horizontal axis. The vertical axis starts at 0 and ends at 30 with ticks every 5 points.
There are 2 series in this graph.
The vertical axis is "rate per 100,000 seniors."
The horizontal axis is "Relationship of accused to victim ."
The title of series 1 is " Female victims."
The minimum value is 7.2 and it corresponds to "Sibling."
The maximum value is 25 and it corresponds to "Grown child."
The title of series 2 is " Male victims."
The minimum value is 6.1 and it corresponds to "Sibling."
The maximum value is 23.8 and it corresponds to "Grown child."

Data table for chart 4.5
  Female victims Male victims
Grown child 25.0 23.8
Spouse 19.8 10.8
Sibling 7.2 6.1
Extended family 10.7 9.1
Note:
Grown child includes biological, step, adoptive and foster children. Includes a small number of victims aged 65 years and older where the relationship of the accused to the victim was miscoded as 'parent' (including 'step-parent') and was therefore recoded as 'child' (including 'step-child'). Spouses include legally married, separated, divorced, common-law and same-sex partners. Sibling includes biological, step, adoptive and foster brothers and sisters. Extended family includes all other family members related by blood, marriage or adoption. Excludes incidents where the victim's sex and/or age was unknown. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population of seniors aged 65 to 89. Victims aged 90 years and older are excluded from analyses due to instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category. Populations based upon July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division.
Source:
Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Crime Reporting Survey.
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