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Table 5.1
Senior victims of police-reported violent crime, by sex of victim and accused-victim relationship, Canada, 2014 Table 5.1
Senior victims of police-reported violent crime, by sex of victim and accused-victim relationship, Canada, 2014

Table 5.1
Senior victims of police-reported violent crime, by sex of victim and accused-victim relationship, Canada, 2014
Table summary
This table displays the results of Senior victims of police-reported violent crime. The information is grouped by Relationship of accused to victim (appearing as row headers), Female victims, Male victims and Total, calculated using number, percent and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Relationship of accused to victim	Female victims			Male victims			Total
Relationship of accused to victim	number	percent	rate^Note 1	number	percent	rate^Note 1	number	percent	rate^Note 1
Total family	1,873	45	65.4	1,288	26	52.8	3,161	34	59.6
Grown child^Note 2	588	14	20.5	457	9	18.7	1,045	11	19.7
Spouse^Note 3	619	15	21.6	261	5	10.7	880	10	16.6
Sibling^Note 4	218	5	7.6	157	3	6.4	375	4	7.1
Extended family^Note 5	448	11	15.6	413	8	16.9	861	9	16.2
Total friends, acquaintances, other	1,450	35	50.6	2,277	45	93.3	3,727	40	70.2
Casual acquaintances^Note 6	717	17	25.0	1,118	22	45.8	1,835	20	34.6
Neighbour	370	9	12.9	524	10	21.5	894	10	16.8
Business relationship	124	3	4.3	341	7	14.0	465	5	8.8
Dating partner^Note 7	117	3	4.1	113	2	4.6	230	2	4.3
Friends^Note 8	122	3	4.3	181	4	7.4	303	3	5.7
Stranger	845	20	29.5	1,484	29	60.8	2,329	25	43.9
Unknown	0	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	4	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	4	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable
Total violence against seniors	4,168	100	145.5	5,053	100	207.0	9,221	100	173.8
... not applicable Note 1. Rate per 100,000 population. Populations based upon July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2. Includes biological, step, adoptive and foster children. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3. Includes current and former legally married and common-law spouses. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4. Includes biological, step, adoptive and foster brothers and sisters. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5. Includes all other family members related by blood, marriage or adoption. Examples include grandchildren, uncles, aunts, cousins and in-laws. Return to note 5 referrer Note 6. Includes criminal relationships, authority figures, and reverse authority figures. Return to note 6 referrer Note 7. Includes girlfriend/boyfriend (current and previous) and other intimate partners. Return to note 7 referrer Note 8. Includes roommates, which was added as a relationship category beginning in 2013. Return to note 8 referrer Note: Excludes incidents where the victim's sex and/or age was unknown. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 seniors (65 to 89 years). Victims aged 90 years and older are excluded from analyses due to instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category. Excludes a small number of victims in Quebec whose age was unknown but was miscoded as 0. Percentages may not add up due to rounding. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.

Date modified:: 2016-01-21