Table 4.3
Child and youth victims (0 to 17 years) of police-reported family violence, by sex and age of victim, Canada, 2014

Table 4.3
Child and youth victims (0 to 17 years) of police-reported family violence, by sex and age of victim, Canada, 2014
Table summary
This table displays the results of Child and youth victims (0 to 17 years) of police-reported family violence. The information is grouped by Age of victim (appearing as row headers), Female victims, Male victims and Total , calculated using number and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Age of victim Female victims Male victims Total
number rate number rate number rate
Less than 1 year 143 76.8 157 80.2 300 78.5
1 year 193 103.8 239 122.3 432 113.2
2 years 226 122.1 196 100.7 422 111.1
3 years 334 179.2 254 129.9 588 153.9
4 years 423 224.2 349 176.4 772 199.7
5 years 461 242.6 379 189.4 840 215.3
6 years 458 239.5 400 200.0 858 219.3
7 years 420 224.8 382 194.5 802 209.3
8 years 441 242.1 410 214.3 851 227.8
9 years 444 248.2 383 203.2 827 225.1
10 years 446 248.0 334 176.1 780 211.1
11 years 506 284.7 404 216.3 910 249.7
12 years 685 384.7 439 233.7 1,124 307.1
13 years 719 399.8 459 240.1 1,178 317.5
14 years 899 484.2 459 232.7 1,358 354.7
15 years 1,008 534.6 493 247.5 1,501 387.1
16 years 935 476.4 501 242.9 1,436 356.7
17 years 946 464.5 457 211.4 1,403 334.2
Total 9,687 274.4 6,695 189.7 16,382 232.0
Note: Family violence refers to violence committed by parents (biological, adoptive, step, foster), siblings (biological, adopted, half, step, foster), extended family and spouses. Excludes incidents where the sex and/or age of victim was unknown and where the relationship between the victim and the accused was unknown. Rate per 100,000 children and youth. Excludes spousal victims under the age of 15 years. Excludes a small number of victims in Quebec whose age was unknown but was miscoded as 0.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Crime Reporting Survey.
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