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Table 3.2
Child and youth victims (0 to 17 years) of police-reported violent crime, by accused-victim relationship and age group, Canada, 2013

Table summary
This table displays the results of Child and youth victims (0 to 17 years) of police-reported violent crime. The information is grouped by Accused-victim relationship (appearing as row headers), Victim's age group, Total, Less than 1 year, 1 to 3 years, 4 to 6 years, 7 to 11 years and 12 to 17 years, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Accused-victim relationship	Victim's age group										Total
	Less than 1 year		1 to 3 years		4 to 6 years		7 to 11 years		12 to 17 years		Total
	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent
Parent^Note 1	292	90	1,059	76	1,611	66	2,649	62	4,513	54	10,124	60
Sibling^Note 2	21	6	139	10	359	15	771	18	1,584	19	2,874	17
Extended family^Note 3	12	4	195	14	473	19	847	20	1,715	21	3,242	19
Spouse^Note 4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	502	6	502	3
Total	325	100	1,393	100	2,443	100	4,267	100	8,314	100	16,742	100
Note 1. Includes biological, step, adoptive and foster parents. Includes a small number of victims under 18 years of age where the relationship of the accused to the victim was miscoded as 'child' (including 'step-child') and was therefore recoded as 'parent' (including 'step-parent'). Return to note 1 referrer Note 2. Includes biological, step, half, adoptive and foster brothers and sisters. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3. Includes all other family members related by blood, marriage or adoption. Examples include grandchildren, uncles, aunts, cousins and in-laws. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4. Includes current and former legally married and common-law spouses. Return to note 4 referrer Note: Excludes incidents where the sex and/or age of victim was unknown. Excludes spousal victims under the age of 15 years. Excludes a small number of victims in Quebec whose age was unknown but was miscoded as 0. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.

Date modified:: 2015-11-30