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Table A-06
Victims of a police-reported violent crime, by type of intimate partner and most serious weapon present, Canada, 2012

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 and percentage 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	6,476	16	8,402	17	14,878	17
Physical force	27,080	69	34,110	70	61,190	69
Weapon	5,801	15	6,301	13	12,102	14
Firearm	314	0.8	284	0.6	598	0.7
Knife^Note 5	1,794	5	1,913	4	3,707	4
Club/blunt instrument	978	2	782	2	1,760	2
Other weapon^Note 6	2,715	7	3,322	7	6,037	7
Unknown	5,034	Note ...: not applicable	1,993	Note ...: not applicable	7,027	Note ...: not applicable
Total	44,391	100	50,806	100	95,197	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