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Table A-03
Victims of police-reported violent crime, by relationship of accused to victim and sex of victim, Canada, 2012

Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of police-reported violent crime. The information is grouped by Relationship of accused to victim (appearing as row headers), Female victims, Male victims and Total victims , calculated using number and percentage units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Relationship of accused to victim	Female victims		Male victims		Total victims
Relationship of accused to victim	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent
Intimate partner	75,657	41	19,540	11	95,197	26
Current spouse^Note 1	25,322	14	6,177	3	31,499	9
Former spouse^Note 2	10,209	5	2,683	2	12,892	4
Current dating partner^Note 3	24,338	13	6,500	4	30,838	8
Former dating partner^Note 4	14,929	8	3,756	2	18,685	5
Other intimate partner^Note 5	859	0.5	424	0.2	1,283	0.4
Non-spousal family member^Note 6	27,866	15	20,655	12	48,521	13
Friend or acquaintance	52,859	28	71,148	40	124,007	34
Casual acquaintance^Note 7	36,866	20	49,225	28	86,091	24
Business relationship	5,636	3	9,106	5	14,742	4
Close friend^Note 8	7,508	4	7,730	4	15,238	4
Criminal relationship^Note 9	368	0.2	1,879	1	2,247	0.6
Authority figure^Note 10	2,481	1	3,208	2	5,689	2
Stranger	29,865	16	65,332	37	95,197	26
Unknown relationship^Note 11	726	Note ...: not applicable	204	Note ...: not applicable	930	Note ...: not applicable
Total	186,973	100	176,879	100	363,852	100
... not applicable Note 1. Refers to violence committed by currently married persons and current common-law partners. Includes victims aged 15 to 89. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2. Refers to violence committed by separated or divorced persons and former common-law partners. Includes victims aged 15 to 89. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3. Refers to violence committed by current boyfriend or girlfriend. Includes victims aged 15 to 89. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4. Refers to violence committed by former boyfriends or girlfriends. Includes victims aged 15 to 89. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5. Refers to violence committed by a person with whom the victim had a sexual relationship or a mutual sexual attraction. Includes victims ages 15 to 89. Return to note 5 referrer Note 6. Includes all other family members related by blood, marriage (including common-law) or adoption. Examples include grand-children, uncles, aunts, cousins and in laws. Return to note 6 referrer Note 7. Includes neighbours. Return to note 7 referrer Note 8. Includes roommates, which was added as a new relationship category. Return to note 8 referrer Note 9. Refers to relationships with the victim that are based on illegal activities, such as drugs or prostitution. Return to note 9 referrer Note 10 Refers to persons in a position of authority or trust who are not a family member. Includes reverse authority: new relationship category. Return to note 10 referrer Note 11 Refers to incidents where the relationship between the victim and the accused was reported by police as "unknown." Return to note 11 referrer Note: Percentage calculations are based on incidents where the relationship between the victim and the accused was known. Excludes incidents where the age or sex of 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. Excludes a small number of victims in Quebec whose age was unknown but was miscoded as 0. 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