Table A-05
Victims of police-reported intimate partner violence, by sex of victim and type of offence, Canada, 2012

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 and percentage units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence Victims of intimate partner violenceNote 1
Female victims Male victims Total
number percent number percent number percent
Violations causing death 73 0.1 14 0.1 87 0.1
Attempted murderNote 2 70 0.1 37 0.2 107 0.1
Sexual assaultsNote 3 2,568 3 65 0.3 2,633 3
Assault 55,393 73 16,497 84 71,890 76
Major assault (levels 2 and 3)Note 4 8,790 12 3,841 20 12,631 13
Common assault (level 1)Note 5 46,214 61 12,582 64 58,796 62
Other assaultsNote 6 389 0.5 74 0.4 463 0.5
Criminal harassment 5,866 8 856 4 6,722 7
Indecent or harassing phone calls 1,796 2 563 3 2,359 2
Uttering threats 7,077 9 1,292 7 8,369 9
Robbery 264 0.3 60 0.3 324 0.3
Other violent offencesNote 7 2,550 3 156 0.8 2,706 3
Total 75,657 100 19,540 100 95,197 100
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.

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Note 2.

Includes conspire to commit murder.

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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.

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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.

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Note 5.

Level 1 assault is the least serious form of assault and includes pushing, slapping, punching and face-to-face verbal threats.

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Note 6.

Other assaults include unlawfully causing bodily harm, discharge firearm with intent, assault against peace-public officer, and other assaults.

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Note 7.

Includes criminal negligence causing bodily harm, abduction, kidnapping, hostage-taking, arson and other violent crimes.

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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 are 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.
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