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Chart 5.3
Spousal homicides involving firearms dropped notably between 1974 and 2007r
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r
Rates for 1974 to 2006 revised
from those published in the report Family Violence in Canada: A Statistical
Profile, 2008.
Note(s): Rate per 1,000,000 legally married, common-law, separated
and divorced spouses, 15 years of age and over, based on estimates
provided by Demography Division, Statistics Canada. Six same-sex partners
were excluded from the analysis, due to the unavailability of population estimates.
Source(s): Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Homicide
Survey.
