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Table 5.4
Known causes of death among spousal relationships
by sex, 1998 to 2007
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| Method used to cause death | Total | Sex of victim | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Female victims | Male victims | |||||
| number | percent | number | percent | number | percent | |
| Total | 744 | 100 | 595 | 100 | 149 | 100 |
| Shooting | 182 | 24 | 165 | 28 | 17 | 11 |
| Stabbing | 286 | 38 | 180 | 30 | 106 | 71 |
| Strangulation 1 | 140 | 19 | 131 | 22 | 9 | 6 |
| Beating | 106 | 14 | 97 | 16 | 9 | 6 |
| Other 2 | 30 | 4 | 22 | 4 | 8 | 5 |
Includes suffocation and drowning.
Includes poisoning or lethal injection, smoke
inhalation, burns, exposure/hypothermia, or other.
Note(s):
Spousal relationships include legally married, common-law, separated
and divorced partners. Excludes incidents where the accused-victim relationship
was unknown. Excludes those homicides where the cause of death was unknown.Excludes
those homicides where the sex of victim was unknown. Percentages may not add
up to 100% due to rounding.
Source(s):
Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Homicide
Survey.
