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Table 2.3
Victims of police-reported intimate partner violence, by sex of victim and type of offence, Canada, 2013

Table 2.3
Victims of police-reported intimate partner violence, by sex of victim and type of offence, Canada, 2013
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of police-reported intimate partner violence. The information is grouped by Type of offence (appearing as row headers), Victims of intimate partner violence, Female victims, Male victims and Total , calculated using number, percent and number units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence	Victims of intimate partner violence^Note 1
	Female victims		Male victims		Total
	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent
Violations causing death	58	0.1	12	0.1	70	0.1
Attempted murders^Note 2	79	0.1	26	0.1	105	0.1
Sexual assaults^Note 3	2,553	4	63	0.3	2,616	3
Assault	52,800	74	16,084	85	68,884	76
Major assault (levels 2 and 3)^Note 4	8,370	12	3,832	20	12,202	14
Common assault (level 1)^Note 5	44,091	62	12,165	65	56,256	62
Other assaults^Note 6	339	0.5	87	0.5	426	0.5
Criminal harassment	5,616	8	812	4	6,428	7
Indecent or harassing phone calls	1,482	2	488	3	1,970	2
Uttering threats	6,297	9	1,172	6	7,469	8
Robbery	239	0.3	34	0.2	273	0.3
Other violent offences^Note 7	2,333	3	159	0.8	2,492	3
Total	71,457	100	18,850	100	90,307	100
Note 1. Refers to violence committed by married, separated or divorced persons, common-law partners (current and former), dating partners (current and former) and other intimate partners. Includes victims aged 15 to 89. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2. Includes conspire to commit murder. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3. Includes sexual assault, classified as one of three levels according to the seriousness of the incidents. Level 1 sexual assault is the category of least physical injury to the victim; level 2 includes sexual assault with a weapon, threats to use a weapon, or causing bodily harm; and level 3 includes aggravated sexual assault which wounds, maims, disfigures, or endangers the life of the victim. Also includes other sexual crimes such as sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching, sexual exploitation, incest, corrupting children, luring a child via a computer, and voyeurism. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4. Level 2 assault is defined as assault with a weapon or causing bodily harm and level 3 assault is defined as assault that wounds, maims, disfigures or endangers the life of the victim. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5. Level 1 assault is the least serious form of assault and includes pushing, slapping, punching and face-to-face verbal threats. Return to note 5 referrer Note 6. Other assaults include unlawfully causing bodily harm, discharge firearm with intent, assault against peace-public officer, and other assaults. Return to note 6 referrer Note 7. Includes criminal negligence causing bodily harm, abduction, kidnapping, hostage-taking, arson and other violent crimes. Return to note 7 referrer Note: Excludes incidents in which the age or sex of the victim was unknown and for which the relationship of the accused with the victim was unknown. Victims aged 90 years and older was excluded due to possible instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category. Percentages may not add up to 100% due to rounding. Source: .Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.

Date modified:: 2015-11-30