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Perceptions of intimate partner violence, by gender, Canada, 2018 and 2025

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Violence can be excused if people get so angry they lose control - Women+ Violence can be excused if people get so angry they lose control - Men+¹ Reacting violently is understandable if people suspect their partner of having an affair - Women+¹ Reacting violently is understandable if people suspect their partner of having an affair - Men+¹ 0 5 10 15 20 25 % who agree 20182018 20252025
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Difference between estimate for 2018 and estimate for 2025 is statistically significant (p < 0.05).
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All differences between estimates for women+ and men+ are statistically significant (p < 0.05). Respondents were asked to indicate their level of agreement with these statements. Possible responses were "strongly agree," "agree," "neither agree nor disagree," "disagree," or "strongly disagree." For analysis, answers of "strongly agree" and "agree" were combined and referred to simply as "agree." The category "women+" includes women, as well as some non-binary respondents and some respondents who did not state their gender, while the category "men+" includes men, as well as some non-binary persons and some respondents who did not state their gender. In 2025, responses from respondents who had indicated their gender as non-binary and those who did not state their gender were combined with responses from those who had indicated their gender as women or men, in order to safeguard confidentiality and data quality in line with Statistics Canada standards. To enable trend comparisons with the 2018 survey, the same process was applied retroactively to responses received in 2018. For this reason, proportions for 2018 reported in this chart will not match those in reports published previously. Percent calculations include missing responses.
Source(s):
Survey of Safety in Public and Private Spaces (5256), 2018 and 2025.

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Perceptions of intimate partner violence, by gender, Canada, 2018 and 2025, % who agree
  2018 2025
Violence can be excused if people get so angry they lose control - Women+ 6.4 6.2
Violence can be excused if people get so angry they lose control - Men+¹ 9.0 7.5
Reacting violently is understandable if people suspect their partner of having an affair - Women+¹ 16.2 13.0
Reacting violently is understandable if people suspect their partner of having an affair - Men+¹ 20.5 17.8
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Difference between estimate for 2018 and estimate for 2025 is statistically significant (p < 0.05).
Note(s):
All differences between estimates for women+ and men+ are statistically significant (p < 0.05). Respondents were asked to indicate their level of agreement with these statements. Possible responses were "strongly agree," "agree," "neither agree nor disagree," "disagree," or "strongly disagree." For analysis, answers of "strongly agree" and "agree" were combined and referred to simply as "agree." The category "women+" includes women, as well as some non-binary respondents and some respondents who did not state their gender, while the category "men+" includes men, as well as some non-binary persons and some respondents who did not state their gender. In 2025, responses from respondents who had indicated their gender as non-binary and those who did not state their gender were combined with responses from those who had indicated their gender as women or men, in order to safeguard confidentiality and data quality in line with Statistics Canada standards. To enable trend comparisons with the 2018 survey, the same process was applied retroactively to responses received in 2018. For this reason, proportions for 2018 reported in this chart will not match those in reports published previously. Percent calculations include missing responses.
Source(s):
Survey of Safety in Public and Private Spaces (5256), 2018 and 2025.
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