Description of chart 3 Proportion of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal women reporting spousal violence, emotional and financial abuse, 2009

Chart 3 Proportion of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal women reporting spousal violence, emotional and financial abuse, 2009
Type of violence	Aboriginal	Non-Aboriginal
Type of violence	percentage
Spousal violence	15	6
Emotional and financial abuse	34	17
Notes: Includes legally married, common-law and same-sex spouses. Excludes people who refused to state their marital status. Estimates of spousal violence include abuse that occurred over the past 5 years. Emotional and financial abuse are lifetime estimates, but were only asked of respondents who had a spouse or common-law partner within the past 5 years. Excludes data from Northwest Territories, Yukon and Nunavut. Source: Statistics Canada, General Social Survey, 2009.