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Table 2.4
Victims of a police-reported violent crime, by type of intimate partner and most serious weapon present, Canada, 2013

Table 2.4
Victims of a police-reported violent crime, by type of intimate partner and most serious weapon present, Canada, 2013
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of a police-reported violent crime. The information is grouped by Type of weapon (appearing as row headers), Victims of spousal violence, Victims of dating violence and Total victims of intimate partner violence, calculated using number, percent and number units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of weapon	Victims of spousal violence^Note 1		Victims of dating violence^Note 2		Total victims of intimate partner violence^Note 3
Type of weapon	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent
Threats or no weapon^Note 4	5,873	15	7,816	17	13,689	16
Physical force	26,817	70	32,911	71	59,728	71
Weapon	5,431	14	5,828	13	11,259	13
Firearm	256	0.7	256	0.5	512	0.6
Knife^Note 5	1,745	5	1,891	4	3,636	4
Club/blunt instrument	937	2	667	1	1,604	2
Other weapon^Note 6	2,493	7	3,014	6	5,507	7
Unknown	3,924	Note ...: not applicable	1,707	Note ...: not applicable	5,631	Note ...: not applicable
Total	42,045	100	48,262	100	90,307	100
... not applicable Note 1. Refers to violence committed by married, separated or divorced persons and common-law partners (current and former). Includes victims aged 15 to 89. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2. Refers to violence committed by boyfriends or girlfriends (current and former) and other intimate partners. Includes victims aged 15 to 89. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3. 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 3 referrer Note 4. Includes threats that are construed to imply that death or injury is possible. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5. Includes other piercing/cutting instruments, such as a hatchet, razor blade or arrow. Return to note 5 referrer Note 6. Includes other types of weapon such as explosives, fire, motor vehicles, or poison. Return to note 6 referrer Note: Excludes incidents in which the age or sex of the victim was unknown and for which the relationship between the accused and the victim was unknown. Victims aged 90 years and older are excluded due to possible instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category. Unknown weapons are excluded from the calculation of percentages. 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