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Victims of violent crime, selected offences, by most serious weapon present, Canada, 2012

Bar clustered chart – Chart 1: Victims of violent crime, selected offences, by most serious weapon present, Canada, 2012

Chart description

The title of the graph is "Victims of violent crime, selected offences, by most serious weapon present, Canada, 2012."
This is a bar clustered chart.
This is a horizontal bar graph, so categories are on the vertical axis and values on the horizontal axis.
There are in total 10 categories in the vertical axis. The horizontal axis starts at 0 and ends at 50 with ticks every 5 points.
There are 2 series in this graph.
The horizontal axis is "% of victims."
The vertical axis is "Selected offences."
The title of series 1 is " Firearm."
The minimum value is 0.2 and it corresponds to "Criminal harrassment."
The maximum value is 41.9 and it corresponds to "Attempted murder."
The title of series 2 is " Other weapon1."
The minimum value is 4.2 and it corresponds to "Sexual assault and Extortion."
The maximum value is 48.8 and it corresponds to "Homicide and Attempted murder."

Victims of violent crime, selected offences, by most serious weapon present, Canada, 2012, % of victims
  Firearm Other weapon1
Total, violent offences 2.0 16.9
Criminal harrassment 0.2 4.6
Sexual assault 0.3 4.2
Assault 0.9 20.3
Uttering threats 1.3 5.3
Extortion 2.2 4.2
Forcible confinement 3.5 13.8
Robbery 12.4 33.3
Homicide 33.9 48.8
Attempted murder 41.9 48.8
Includes all weapons other than firearms, such as knives, clubs or blunt instruments, poison, motor vehicles, ligature or fire.
Note(s):
Excludes data for Quebec, where "the most serious weapon present" was reported as unknown in a large proportion of incidents.
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