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Table 3.1
Victims of police-reported violent crime, by sex of victim and relationship of accused to victim, Canada, 2014 Table 3.1
Victims of police-reported violent crime, by sex of victim and relationship of accused to victim, Canada, 2014

Table 3.1
Victims of police-reported violent crime, by sex of victim and relationship of accused to victim, Canada, 2014
Table summary
This table displays the results of 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 victims, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Relationship of accused to victim	Female victims		Male victims		Total victims
Relationship of accused to victim	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent
Intimate partner	69,848	42	18,840	12	88,688	27
Current spouse^Note 1	23,334	14	6,284	4	29,618	9
Former spouse^Note 2	8,871	5	2,361	2	11,232	3
Current dating partner^Note 3	23,076	14	6,233	4	29,309	9
Former dating partner^Note 4	13,690	8	3,467	2	17,157	5
Other intimate partner^Note 5	877	0.5	495	0.3	1,372	0.4
Non-spousal family member^Note 6	25,630	15	18,922	12	44,552	14
Friend or acquaintance	46,863	28	62,419	40	109,282	34
Casual acquaintance^Note 7	30,816	18	39,988	26	70,804	22
Business relationship	4,864	3	7,566	5	12,430	4
Close friend^Note 8	7,239	4	7,826	5	15,065	5
Criminal relationship^Note 9	326	0.2	1,722	1	2,048	0.6
Authority figure^Note 10	3,618	2	5,317	3	8,935	3
Stranger	25,554	15	54,693	35	80,247	25
Unknown relationship^Note 11	668	Note ...: not applicable	206	Note ...: not applicable	874	Note ...: not applicable
Total	168,563	100	155,080	100	323,643	100
... not applicable Note 1. Refers to violence committed by currently married persons and current common-law partners. Includes victims aged 15 to 89. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2. Refers to violence committed by separated or divorced persons and former common-law partners. Includes victims aged 15 to 89. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3. Refers to violence committed by current boyfriend or girlfriend. Includes victims aged 15 to 89. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4. Refers to violence committed by former boyfriends or girlfriends. Includes victims aged 15 to 89. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5. Refers to violence committed by a person with whom the victim had a sexual relationship or a mutual sexual attraction. Includes victims ages 15 to 89. Return to note 5 referrer Note 6. Includes all other family members related by blood, marriage (including common-law) or adoption. Examples include grandchildren, uncles, aunts, cousins and in-laws. Return to note 6 referrer Note 7. Includes neighbours. Return to note 7 referrer Note 8. Includes roommates, which was added as a relationship category in 2013. Return to note 8 referrer Note 9. Refers to relationships with the victim that are based on illegal activities, such as drugs or prostitution. Return to note 9 referrer Note 10 Refers to persons in a position of authority or trust who are not a family member. Includes reverse authority: new relationship category since 2013. Return to note 10 referrer Note 11 Refers to incidents where the relationship between the victim and the accused was reported by police as "unknown." Return to note 11 referrer Note: Percentage calculations are based on incidents where the relationship between the victim and the accused was known. Excludes incidents where the age or sex of the victim was unknown. Victims aged 90 years and older are excluded due to possible 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 to 100% due to rounding. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.

Date modified:: 2016-01-21