Description for chart 4

The title of the graph is "Chart 4 Police-reported drug offences, by province and territory, 2013."
This is a bar clustered chart.
This is a horizontal bar graph, so categories are on the vertical axis and values on the horizontal axis.
There are in total 14 categories in the vertical axis. The horizontal axis starts at 0 and ends at 1,400 with ticks every 200 points.
There are 2 series in this graph.
The horizontal axis is "rate per 100,000 population."
The vertical axis is "Province or territory."
The title of series 1 is " Average 2003 to 2012."
The minimum value is 179 and it corresponds to "Prince Edward Island."
The maximum value is 1,207 and it corresponds to "Northwest Territories."
The title of series 2 is "2013."
The minimum value is 183 and it corresponds to "Prince Edward Island."
The maximum value is 1,289 and it corresponds to "Northwest Territories."

Data table for chart 4
  Average 2003 to 2012 2013
Canada 304 310
Nunavut 885 1,051
Northwest Territories 1,207 1,289
Yukon 575 564
British Columbia 606 576
Alberta 279 297
Saskatchewan 359 490
Manitoba 230 285
Ontario 237 232
Quebec 269 277
New Brunswick 273 235
Nova Scotia 284 325
Prince Edward Island 179 183
Newfoundland and Labrador 214 273
Note:
Drug offences include possession, trafficking, import/export, and production. Police-reported statistics may be affected by differences in the way police services deal with minor offences. In some instances, police or municipalities might choose to deal with some minor offences using municipal by-laws or provincial provisions rather than Criminal Code provisions. Counts are based on the most serious violation in the incident. One incident may involve multiple violations. Data for specific types of crime are available, in most cases, from 1977. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Percentage changes are based on unrounded rates. Populations are based upon July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division.
Source(s):
 Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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