Table 4.1
Percentage of spousal violence victims whose victimization came to the attention of police, by sex of victim and incident characteristics, Canada, 2009

Table 4.1 Percentage of spousal violence victims whose victimization came to the attention of police, by sex of victim and incident characteristics, Canada, 2009
Table summary
This table displays the results of table 4.1 percentage of spousal violence victims whose victimization came to the attention of police. The information is grouped by incident characteristics (appearing as row headers), female victims and male victims, calculated using percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Incident characteristics Female victims Male victims
percent
Most serious assault  
Threats, threw something Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published
Pushed, shoved, slapped† 14Note E: Use with caution 12Note E: Use with caution
Kicked, bit, hit 32Note E: Use with cautionNote * 12Note E: Use with caution
Beaten, choked, or used gun or knife 60Note * 42Note E: Use with cautionNote *
Sexually assaulted 53Note * Note F: too unreliable to be published
Injured  
Not injured 18Note * 9Note E: Use with cautionNote *
Injured and no medical attention 41Note * 31Note E: Use with caution
Injured and received medical attention† 70 Note F: too unreliable to be published
Frequency of violence  
One incident 15Note E: Use with cautionNote * Note F: too unreliable to be published
2 to 5 incidents 30Note * 21Note E: Use with cautionNote *
6 to 10 incidents 43Note E: Use with cautionNote * Note F: too unreliable to be published
More than 10 incidents† 53 36Note E: Use with caution
Feared for their lives  
No 17Note * 11Note E: Use with cautionNote *
Yes† 58 54Note E: Use with caution
E use with caution
F too unreliable to be published
reference category
* significantly different from reference category (p < 0.05)
Note: Includes legally married, common-law, same-sex, separated and divorced spouses who experienced spousal violence within the previous 5 years. Data from the Northwest Territories, Yukon and Nunavut were collected using a different methodology and are therefore excluded.
Source: Statistics Canada, General Social Survey, 2009.
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