Description for chart 8

The title of the graph is "Chart 8 Completed drug-related cases involving possession in adult criminal and youth court, by age group and sex of accused person, Canada, 2008/2009 to 2011/2012."
This is a column clustered chart.
There are in total 6 categories in the horizontal axis. The vertical axis starts at 0 and ends at 90 with ticks every 10 points.
There are 2 series in this graph.
The vertical axis is "percent ."
The horizontal axis is "Age group (years) of accused."
The title of series 1 is "Male."
The minimum value is 56 and it corresponds to "55 and over2."
The maximum value is 78 and it corresponds to "12 to 171."
The title of series 2 is "Female."
The minimum value is 34 and it corresponds to "55 and over2."
The maximum value is 77 and it corresponds to "12 to 171."

Data table for chart 8
  Male Female
12 to 171 78 77
18 to 242 74 63
25 to 342 70 62
35 to 442 68 59
45 to 542 66 52
55 and over2 56 34
1.
This age group includes only cases completed in youth court in Canada.
2.
This age group includes cases completed in adult criminal court in Canada.
Note:
Data exclude information from superior courts in Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan as well as municipal courts in Quebec due to the unavailability of data. Excludes completed cases where the age and/or sex of the accused person was unknown. A case is one or more charges against an accused person or company that were processed by the courts at the same time and received a final decision. Cases in this chart represent a subset of completed adult criminal and youth court cases from 2008/2009 to 2011/2012. This subset includes all completed cases over this period where at least one charge was drug related and where the case was linked to police records.
Source(s):
 Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Integrated Criminal Court Survey and Uniform Crime Reporting Survey linked database, 2008/2009 to 2011/2012.
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