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Table 4.1
Senior victims of police-reported violent crime, by accused-victim relationship and sex of victim, Canada, 2013

Table summary
This table displays the results of Senior victims of police-reported violent crime. The information is grouped by Relationship of accused to victim (appearing as row headers), Female victims, Male victims and Total, calculated using number, percent and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Relationship of accused to victim	Female victims			Male victims			Total
Relationship of accused to victim	number	percent	rate^Note 1	number	percent	rate^Note 1	number	percent	rate^Note 1
Total family	1,738	43	62.7	1,164	24	49.7	2,902	33	56.8
Grown child^Note 2	694	17	25.0	557	12	23.8	1,251	14	24.5
Spouse^Note 3	548	13	19.8	252	5	10.8	800	9	15.7
Sibling^Note 4	200	5	7.2	142	3	6.1	342	4	6.7
Extended family^Note 5	296	7	10.7	213	4	9.1	509	6	10.0
Total friends, acquaintances, other	1,434	35	51.8	2,158	45	92.2	3,592	40	70.3
Casual Acquaintances^Note 6	776	19	28.0	1,104	23	47.2	1,880	21	36.8
Neighbour	291	7	10.5	501	10	21.4	792	9	15.5
Business relationship	136	3	4.9	298	6	12.7	434	5	8.5
Dating partner^Note 7	122	3	4.4	107	2	4.6	229	3	4.5
Friends^Note 8	109	3	3.9	148	3	6.3	257	3	5.0
Stranger	906	22	32.7	1,485	31	63.4	2,391	27	46.8
Unknown	0	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	6	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	6	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable
Total violence against seniors	4,078	100	147.2	4,813	100	205.6	8,891	100	173.9
... not applicable Note 1. Rate per 100,000 population. Populations based upon July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2. Includes biological, step, adoptive and foster children. Includes a small number of victims aged 65 years and older where the relationship of the accused to the victim was miscoded as 'parent' (including 'step-parent') and was therefore recoded as 'child' (including 'step-child'). Return to note 2 referrer Note 3. Includes current and former legally married and common-law spouses. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4. Includes biological, step, adoptive and foster brothers and sisters. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5. Includes all other family members related by blood, marriage or adoption. Examples include grandchildren, uncles, aunts, cousins and in-laws. Return to note 5 referrer Note 6. Includes criminal relationships, authority figures, and reverse authority figures. Return to note 6 referrer Note 7. Includes girlfriend/boyfriend (current and previous) and other intimate partners. Return to note 7 referrer Note 8. Includes roommates, which was added as a relationship category beginning in 2013. Return to note 8 referrer Note: Excludes incidents where the victim's sex and/or age was unknown. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 seniors (65 to 89 years). Victims aged 90 years and older are excluded from analyses due to instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category. Percentages may not add up due to rounding. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.

Date modified:: 2015-11-30