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Acknowledgements

This report was prepared by the Centre for Education Statistics (CES) and the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics (CCJS) with the financial support of the National Crime Prevention Centre (NCPC) at the Department of Public Safety.

The report has benefited from the comments of many reviewers. In particular the authors gratefully acknowledge the contributions of Robin Fitzgerald, Josée Savoie and Jodi-Anne Brzozowski at CCJS, Darcy Hango, Evelyne Bougie and Kathryn McMullen at CES, Bradley Fetter and Dawn Tapper in Household Survey Methods Division at Statistics Canada, our federal, provincial and territorial partners on the CCJS Liaison Officer's Committee and the staff of the CCJS.

A special thank you is extended to Colleen Thompson, Danielle Baum, Judith Côté and Suzane Tremblay for their indispensable work in preparing the manuscript.

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