Table 8
Percentage of guilty youth cases sentenced to custody, Canada, provinces and territories, 2002/2003 to 2008/2009
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| Province and territory | 2002/ 2003 | 2003/ 2004 | 2004/ 2005 | 2005/ 2006 | 2006/ 2007 | 2007/ 2008 | 2008/ 2009 |
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| Canada | 26.9 | 21.9 | 21.1 | 18.4 | 16.6 | 15.9 | 15.4 |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | 38.5 | 21.3 | 23.5 | 20.3 | 18.0 | 12.0 | 15.6 |
| Prince Edward Island | 39.5 | 19.7 | 16.0 | 17.3 | 18.7 | 15.8 | 19.4 |
| Nova Scotia | 32.8 | 14.7 | 13.3 | 11.5 | 13.7 | 12.1 | 11.0 |
| New Brunswick | 25.8 | 23.2 | 20.9 | 16.1 | 16.5 | 13.5 | 12.2 |
| Quebec | 21.2 | 15.9 | 15.3 | 12.5 | 11.2 | 11.3 | 12.0 |
| Ontario | 28.1 | 27.5 | 26.3 | 23.8 | 20.9 | 21.7 | 20.3 |
| Manitoba | 26.0 | 15.9 | 15.7 | 8.6 | 7.9 | 6.7 | 6.2 |
| Saskatchewan | 30.9 | 26.1 | 21.2 | 18.0 | 16.7 | 14.8 | 16.3 |
| Alberta | 19.3 | 12.9 | 13.3 | 12.4 | 12.5 | 11.1 | 10.5 |
| British Columbia | 31.6 | 22.1 | 21.5 | 21.6 | 18.6 | 16.7 | 15.6 |
| Yukon | 46.9 | 27.3 | 25.0 | 44.1 | 31.8 | 34.1 | 41.2 |
| Northwest Territories1 | 39.2 | 19.1 | 15.6 | 20.1 | 20.3 | 17.3 | 17.3 |
| Nunavut | 24.7 | 21.3 | 23.2 | 22.2 | 18.8 | 9.7 | 14.6 |
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1. From 2004/2005 to 2008/2009, for the Northwest Territories, the number of custody orders has been under reported and the number of probation orders has been over reported by unknown amounts due to clerical procedures. The majority of custody orders were captured as probation. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Youth Court Survey. |
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