Description for chart 1

The title of the graph is "Chart 1 Homicides and attempted murders, Canada, 1964 to 2014."
This is a line chart.
There are in total 51 categories in the horizontal axis. The vertical axis starts at 0 and ends at 4 with ticks every 0.5 points.
There are 2 series in this graph.
The vertical axis is "rate per 100,000 population."
The units of the horizontal axis are years from 1964 to 2014.
The title of series 1 is "Homicide."
The minimum value is 1.25 occurring in 1966.
The maximum value is 3.02 occurring in 1975.
The title of series 2 is "Attempted murder."
The minimum value is 0.57 occurring in 1965.
The maximum value is 3.75 occurring in 1982.

Data table for chart 1
  Homicide Attempted murder
1964 1.31 0.63
1965 1.41 0.57
1966 1.25 0.65
1967 1.66 0.68
1968 1.81 0.87
1969 1.86 1.03
1970 2.19 1.22
1971 2.15 1.53
1972 2.34 1.85
1973 2.43 2.15
1974 2.62 2.28
1975 3.02 2.77
1976 2.84 2.95
1977 3.00 2.88
1978 2.76 3.10
1979 2.61 3.12
1980 2.41 3.23
1981 2.61 3.63
1982 2.66 3.75
1983 2.69 3.47
1984 2.60 3.60
1985 2.72 3.34
1986 2.17 3.37
1987 2.43 3.46
1988 2.15 3.12
1989 2.40 3.04
1990 2.37 3.27
1991 2.69 3.72
1992 2.58 3.72
1993 2.18 3.43
1994 2.05 3.18
1995 2.00 3.20
1996 2.14 2.97
1997 1.96 2.89
1998 1.85 2.47
1999 1.77 2.26
2000 1.77 2.50
2001 1.78 2.34
2002 1.86 2.16
2003 1.74 2.23
2004 1.95 2.10
2005 2.06 2.55
2006 1.86 2.57
2007 1.81 2.41
2008 1.84 2.17
2009 1.81 2.38
2010 1.63 1.96
2011 1.75 1.94
2012 1.57 1.91
2013 1.46 1.81
2014 1.45 1.74
Note:
Excludes 329 victims killed in the Air India incident in 1985. Data on homicide are available back to 1961 through the Homicide Survey, while data on attempted murder are available back to 1962 through the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
Source:
Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Homicide Survey and Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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