Description for chart 3

The title of the graph is "Chart 3 Police-reported Crime Severity Index and crime rate, Canada, 1998 to 2014 ."
This is a line chart.
There are in total 17 categories in the horizontal axis. The primary vertical axis starts at 0 and ends at 9,000 with ticks every 1,000 points. The secondary vertical axis starts at 0 and ends at 135 with ticks every 15 points.
There are 2 series in this graph.
The units of the horizontal axis are years from 1998 to 2014.
The title of series 1 is "Crime rate ."
The vertical axis is "rate per 100,000 population."
The minimum value is 5,046 occurring in 2014.
The maximum value is 8,092 occurring in 1998.
The title of series 2 is "Crime Severity Index."
The vertical axis is "Crime Severity Index."
The minimum value is 66.7 occurring in 2014.
The maximum value is 118.8 occurring in 1998.

Data table for chart 3
  Crime rate Crime Severity Index
  rate per 100,000 population
1998 8,092 118.8
1999 7,694 111.2
2000 7,607 106.7
2001 7,587 105.3
2002 7,512 104.1
2003 7,770 106.8
2004 7,600 104.1
2005 7,325 101.3
2006 7,245 100.0
2007 6,908 95.3
2008 6,631 90.6
2009 6,461 87.8
2010 6,159 82.9
2011 5,779 77.6
2012 5,632 75.4
2013 5,195 68.8
2014 5,046 66.7
Note:
Additional data are available on CANSIM (Tables 252-0051 and 252-0052). The crime rate is based upon Criminal Code incidents, excluding traffic offences. The Crime Severity Index (CSI) is based on Criminal Code incidents, including traffic offences, as well as other federal statute violations. For the CSI, the base index was set at 100 for 2006 for Canada. Populations are based upon July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division.
Source:
Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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