Table 4.2
Percentage of spousal violence victims whose victimization came to the attention of police, by sex of victim and other victim characteristics, Canada, 2009

Table 4.2 Percentage of spousal violence victims whose victimization came to the attention of police, by sex of victim and other victim characteristics, Canada, 2009
Table summary
This table displays the results of table 4.2 percentage of spousal violence victims whose victimization came to the attention of police. The information is grouped by victim characteristics (appearing as row headers), female victims and male victims, calculated using percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Victim characteristics	Female victims	Male victims
Victim characteristics	percent
Age of victim (years)
15 to 24†	36^{Note E: Use with caution}	Note F: too unreliable to be published
25 to 34	28^{Note E: Use with caution}	12^{Note E: Use with caution}
35 and older	30	16
Education
High school or less†	41	16^{Note E: Use with caution}
Some post-secondary	28Note *	16^{Note E: Use with caution}
University	25^{Note E: Use with cautionNote *}	Note F: too unreliable to be published
Household income
Less than $30,000†	45	Note F: too unreliable to be published
$30,000 to $99,999	30Note *	18^{Note E: Use with caution}
$100,000 or more	Note F: too unreliable to be published	9^{Note E: Use with caution}
Visible minority
Yes†	28^{Note E: Use with caution}	Note F: too unreliable to be published
No	31	12
Immigrant
Yes†	34^{Note E: Use with caution}	Note F: too unreliable to be published
No	29	13
Aboriginal person
Yes†	38^{Note E: Use with caution}	Note F: too unreliable to be published
No	30	13
^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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