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Table 3.1
Victims of police-reported violent crime, by sex of victim and relationship of accused to victim, Canada, 2016

Table 3.1
Victims of police-reported violent crime, by sex of victim and relationship of accused to victim, Canada, 2016
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	73,400	42	19,847	12	93,247	28
Current spouse^{Table 3.1 Note 1}	23,142	13	6,446	4	29,588	9
Former spouse^{Table 3.1 Note 2}	8,656	5	2,333	1	10,989	3
Current dating partner^{Table 3.1 Note 3}	25,841	15	6,974	4	32,815	10
Former dating partner^{Table 3.1 Note 4}	14,767	8	3,607	2	18,374	5
Other intimate partner^{Table 3.1 Note 5}	994	1	487	0.3	1,481	0.4
Non-spousal family^{Table 3.1 Note 6}	25,998	15	19,830	12	45,828	14
Friend or acquaintance	49,446	28	63,953	40	113,399	34
Casual acquaintance^{Table 3.1 Note 7}	31,646	18	39,589	25	71,235	21
Business relationship	4,583	3	6,713	4	11,296	3
Friend^{Table 3.1 Note 8}	7,923	5	8,250	5	16,173	5
Criminal relationship^{Table 3.1 Note 9}	320	0.2	1,746	1	2,066	1
Authority figure^{Table 3.1 Note 10}	4,974	3	7,655	5	12,629	4
Stranger	26,697	15	56,215	35	82,912	25
Unknown^{Table 3.1 Note 11}	845	Note ...: not applicable	256	Note ...: not applicable	1,101	Note ...: not applicable
Total	176,386	100	160,101	100	336,487	100
... not applicable Note 1 Refers to violence committed by current legally married spouses and common-law partners. Includes victims aged 15 to 89. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Refers to violence committed by separated or divorced spouses and former common-law partners. Includes victims aged 15 to 89. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Refers to violence committed by current boyfriends and girlfriends. Includes victims aged 15 to 89. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Refers to violence committed by former boyfriends and 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 grandparents, 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 Includes relationships with the victim based on illegal activities, such as drugs or prostitution. Return to note 9 referrer Note 10 Includes persons in a position of trust or authority who are not family members. Includes authority figures and reverse authority figures (e.g., student-to-teacher, patient-to-doctor, teen-to-youth counsellors/group home workers, prisoner-to guard). 'Reverse authority figures' was added as a relationship category beginning in 2013. Return to note 10 referrer Note 11 Includes incidents where the relationship between the victim and the accused was reported by police as 'unknown.' Return to note 11 referrer Note: Intimate partner violence victims under the age of 15 years are included in the category 'unknown relationship' and not in the categories related to intimate partner violence. Victims refer to those aged 89 years and younger. Victims aged 90 years and older are excluded from analyses due to possible instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category. Excludes victims where the sex or the age was unknown. Excludes a small number of victims in Quebec whose age was unknown but was miscoded as 0. Percentages have been calculated excluding victims where the accused-victim relationship was unknown. Percentages may not total 100% due to rounding. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.

Date modified:: 2018-01-17