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Table 9
Reasons for not reporting sexual assault to the police, by sex of victim, Canada, 2014

Table 9
Reasons for not reporting sexual assault to the police, by sex of victim, Canada, 2014
Table summary
This table displays the results of Reasons for not reporting sexual assault to the police. The information is grouped by Reasons for not reporting to the police (appearing as row headers), Women, Men and Total, calculated using percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Reasons for not reporting to the police^{Table 9 Note 1}	Women	Men^{Table 9 Note †}	Total
Reasons for not reporting to the police^{Table 9 Note 1}	percent
Crime was minor and not worth taking the time to report	71	75	71
Incident was a private or personal matter and it was handled informally	68	62^{Note E: Use with caution}	67
No one was harmed	66^Note *	42^{Note E: Use with caution}	63
Did not want the hassle of dealing with the police	47	33^{Note E: Use with caution}	45
Police would not have considered incident important enough	43	43^{Note E: Use with caution}	43
Lack of evidence	46^Note *	18^{Note E: Use with caution}	43
Offender would not be convicted or adequately punished	41	27^{Note E: Use with caution}	40
No harm was intended	38	49^{Note E: Use with caution}	39
Feared or did not want the hassle of dealing with the court process	34	37^{Note E: Use with caution}	34
Did not want the offender in trouble with the law	29	36^{Note E: Use with caution}	30
Did not want others to find out about the victimization^{Table 9 Note 2}	32	Note F: too unreliable to be published	30
Police would not have been efficient or effective	27^{Note E: Use with caution}	Note F: too unreliable to be published	26
Fear of revenge by the offender or others	24^{Note E: Use with caution}	Note F: too unreliable to be published	22^{Note E: Use with caution}
Police would not have been able to find or identify the offender	22^{Note E: Use with caution}	Note F: too unreliable to be published	21^{Note E: Use with caution}
Police would be biased	13^{Note E: Use with caution}	Note F: too unreliable to be published	13^{Note E: Use with caution}
Received unsatisfactory service from the police in the past	13^{Note E: Use with caution}	Note F: too unreliable to be published	13^{Note E: Use with caution}
Afraid reporting would bring shame and dishonour to the family	13^{Note E: Use with caution}	Note F: too unreliable to be published	12^{Note E: Use with caution}
^E use with caution F too unreliable to be published Note * significantly different from reference category (p < 0.05) Return to note * referrer Note † reference category Return to note † referrer Note 1 Respondents were able to provide more than one reason for not reporting to the police. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Includes publicity and news coverage. Return to note 2 referrer Note: Includes non-spousal sexual assault. In 2014, nearly all (96%) sexual assault was non-spousal in nature. Excludes spousal sexual assault due to a different methodology used to collect information on characteristics of spousal violence. 'Victim' refers to those who reported that they were sexually assaulted in the past 12 months. Source: Statistics Canada, General Social Survey.

Date modified:: 2017-07-11