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These charts accompany The Daily article released on October 26, 2017.

Data table for Chart A.1

Data table for Chart A.1

Data table for Chart A.1
Table summary
This table displays the results of Data table for Chart A.1. The information is grouped by Level of the criminal justice system (appearing as row headers), Number of incidents/cases (appearing as column headers).
Level of the criminal justice system	Number of incidents/cases
Sexual assaults reported by police^{Data table Note 1}	93,501
Accused identified^{Data table Note 2}	55,077
Charged^{Data table Note 3}	40,490
Went to court^{Data table Note 4}	19,806
Court cases^{Data table Note 5}	15,804
Convictions^{Data table Note 6}	8,742
Adult cases sentenced to custody^{Data table Note 7}	3,846
Note 1 Represents criminal incidents reported by police between 2009 and 2014 where a sexual assault was the most serious violation in the incident and where the incident was in-scope for linkage to court (see note). One incident may include multiple offences. This excludes incidents reported to police that were deemed ‘unfounded.’ An incident is classified as unfounded if police investigation determined that the reported offence did not occur, nor was it attempted. Information on unfounded sexual assaults will be published in July of 2018. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Represents police-reported sexual assault incidents where there was an accused identified by police in connection with the incident and the incident was either cleared by charge or cleared otherwise. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Represents police-reported sexual assault incidents with a charge laid or charge recommended by police to be laid on an accused. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Represents police-reported sexual assault incidents with a charge laid or charge recommended by police that linked to a court case that was completed in adult or youth court between 2009/2010 and 2014/2015. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 Represents linked cases completed in adult or youth court that retained at least one sexual assault charge in the court case. One court case can include multiple charges. The number of cases completed in court is lower than the number of incidents that linked to court in part because multiple incidents may be grouped into a single court case. Cases were limited to those that had a sexual assault charge in the case in order to ensure that court outcomes were related to the initial sexual assault offence charged by police. This represents 84% of cases resulting from police-reported sexual assault incidents that went to court. Return to note 5 referrer Note 6 Represents linked cases completed in adult or youth court that received a guilty decision for the most serious offence in the case (regardless of whether the decision was specifically for the sexual assault charge). Return to note 6 referrer Note 7 Represents linked guilty court cases (in adult court only) sentenced to custody as the most serious sentence. Excludes youth sentences due to the fundamental differences between adult and youth sentencing principles. Return to note 7 referrer Note: Data are presented in actual figures for each level of the justice system. Attrition rates cannot be accurately derived using these raw figures because of the varying units of count (i.e., police incidents versus court cases). Please see the corresponding Juristat article for attrition findings that were adjusted to account for this. Data exclude incidents reported by police in Quebec and Prince Edward Island due to missing personal identifiers required to link to court data. Excludes police-reported incidents involving multiple accused. Incidents considered in-scope for this study represented 80% of all sexual assaults reported by police in Canada between 2009 and 2014. Record linkage is subject to false negative linkage issues where police-reported incidents may not have linked to court cases due to data quality issues in administrative data (e.g., incorrect birthdates or different personal identifiers for the same accused). Court data exclude cases that were completed in superior court in Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan due to the unavailability of data. For these reasons, the attrition of incidents and cases depicted may be an overestimation. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey and Integrated Criminal Court Survey linked file.

Data table for Chart A.2

Data table for Chart A.2

Data table for Chart A.2
Table summary
This table displays the results of Data table for Chart A.2. The information is grouped by Level of the criminal justice system (appearing as row headers), Sexual assault and Physical assault, calculated using retention rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Level of the criminal justice system	Sexual assault	Physical assault
Level of the criminal justice system	retention rate^{Data table Note 1}
Incidents with an accused identified^{Data table Note 2}	59	75
Incidents charged^{Data table Note 3}	43	51
Charged incidents that went to court^{Data table Note 4}	49	75
Cases convicted^{Data table Note 5}	55	59
Guilty cases sentenced to custody^{Data table Note 6}	56	36
Note 1 The retention rate is a measure of incidents that remain in the criminal justice system (the inverse of the attrition rate), and is presented in this chart by respective level of the justice system. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Represents the proportion of criminal incidents (sexual or physical assault) reported by police between 2009 and 2014 that had an accused identified by police in connection with the incident. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Represents the proportion of police-reported incidents with a charge laid or charge recommended by police. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Represents the proportion of police-reported incidents with a charge laid or charge recommended by police that linked to a court case completed in adult or youth court between 2009/2010 and 2014/2015. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 Represents the proportion of linked cases completed in adult or youth court (that retained at least one sexual/physical assault charge in the court case) that received a guilty decision for the most serious offence in the case (regardless of whether the decision was specifically for the sexual/physical assault charge). Return to note 5 referrer Note 6 Represents the proportion of linked guilty court cases (in adult court only) that were sentenced to custody as the most serious sentence. Excludes youth sentences due to the fundamental differences between adult and youth sentencing principles. Excludes cases found guilty where no sentencing detail was available (7% for sexual assault and 4% for physical assault). Return to note 6 referrer Note: Data exclude incidents reported by police in Quebec and Prince Edward Island due to missing personal identifiers required to link to court data. Excludes police-reported incidents involving multiple accused. Incidents considered in-scope for this study represented 80% of all sexual assaults and 76% of all physical assaults reported by police in Canada between 2009 and 2014. Record linkage is subject to false negative linkage issues where police-reported incidents may not have linked to court cases due to data quality issues in administrative data (e.g., incorrect birthdates or different personal identifiers for the same accused). Court data exclude cases that were completed in superior court in Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan due to the unavailability of data. For these reasons, the retention rate may be an underestimation. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey and Integrated Criminal Court Survey linked file.

Data table for Chart A.3

Data table for Chart A.3

Data table for Chart A.3
Table summary
This table displays the results of Data table for Chart A.3. The information is grouped by Date incident reported to police relative to the date the incident occurred (appearing as row headers), Same day, 1 day to 1 week delay, Over 1 week to 1 month delay, Over 1 month to 3 months delay, Over 3 months to 1 year delay, Over 1 year to 3 years delay and More than 3 years delay, calculated using retention rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Date incident reported to police relative to the date the incident occurred	Same day	1 day to 1 week delay	Over 1 week to 1 month delay	Over 1 month to 3 months delay	Over 3 months to 1 year delay	Over 1 year to 3 years delay	More than 3 years delay
	retention rate^{Data table Note 1}
Sexual assault	53	59	52	46	35	26	16
Physical assault	76	77	71	62	57	40	36
Note 1 The retention rate is a measure of incidents that remain in the criminal justice system (the inverse of the attrition rate), and represents the percentage of incidents with a charge laid or charge recommended by police between 2009 and 2014 that linked to a court case completed in adult or youth court between 2009/2010 and 2014/2015. Return to note 1 referrer Note: The incident date is the date the incident is known or believed to have occurred. Excludes court cases associated with incidents with missing date information or report dates that were erroneously reported as prior to the incident date (<1%). Data exclude incidents reported by police in Quebec and Prince Edward Island due to missing personal identifiers required to link to court data. Excludes police-reported incidents involving multiple accused. Record linkage is subject to false negative linkage issues where police-reported incidents may not have linked to court cases due to data quality issues in administrative data (e.g., incorrect birthdates or different personal identifiers for the same accused). Court data exclude cases that were completed in superior court in Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan due to the unavailability of data. For these reasons, the retention rate may be an underestimation. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey and Integrated Criminal Court Survey linked file.

Date modified:: 2017-10-26