Table 1a
Police-reported Crime Severity Indexes, Canada, 2006 to 2016

Table 1a
Police-reported Crime Severity Indexes, Canada, 2006 to 2016
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported Crime Severity Indexes. The information is grouped by Year (appearing as row headers), Total Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index and Non-violent Crime Severity Index, calculated using index and percent change from previous year units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year Total Crime Severity Index Violent Crime Severity Index Non-violent Crime Severity Index
index percent change from previous year index percent change from previous year index percent change from previous year
2006 100.0 -1 100.0 2 100.0 -2
2007 95.3 -5 97.8 -2 94.3 -6
2008 90.6 -5 95.1 -3 88.9 -6
2009 87.8 -3 94.3 -1 85.3 -4
2010 82.9 -6 89.2 -5 80.5 -6
2011 77.6 -6 85.7 -4 74.5 -8
2012 75.4 -3 81.9 -4 72.9 -2
2013 68.8 -9 73.9 -10 66.8 -8
2014 66.7 -3 70.5 -5 65.2 -2
2015Note r: revised 70.1 5 75.0 6 68.2 5
2016 71.0 1 75.3 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 69.3 2
Percent change 2006 to 2016 -29 Note ...: not applicable -25 Note ...: not applicable -31 Note ...: not applicable
... not applicable
0s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded
r revised
Note: Additional data are available on CANSIM (Table 252-0052). Crime Severity Indexes are based on Criminal Code incidents, including traffic offences, as well as other federal statute violations. The base index was set at 100 for 2006 for Canada. Data on the Crime Severity Indexes are available beginning in 1998. Percent changes are based on unrounded rates. 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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