Table 4.4
Senior victims of police-reported family violence, by sex of victim and type of offence, Canada, 2013

Table summary
This table displays the results of Senior victims of police-reported family violence. The information is grouped by Type of offence (appearing as row headers), Female victims, Male victims and Total, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence Female victims Male victims Total
number percent number percent number percent
Violations causing death 9 1 10 1 19 1
Attempted murderNote 1 6 0.3 4 0.3 10 0.3
Sexual assault (levels 1, 2, 3) 22 1 1 0.1 23 1
Physical assault  
Major assault (levels 2 and 3) 179 10 172 15 351 12
Common assault (level 1) 971 56 632 54 1,603 55
Other assaultsNote 2 8 0.5 6 1 14 0.5
Robbery 14 1 6 1 20 1
Extortion 13 1 11 1 24 1
Criminal harassment 87 5 35 3 122 4
Uttering threats 324 19 236 20 560 19
Indecent/harassing phone calls 66 4 36 3 102 4
Other violent offencesNote 3 39 2 15 1 54 2
Total 1,738 100 1,164 100 2,902 100
Note 1.

Attempted murder includes conspire to commit murder.

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Note 2.

Includes unlawfully causing bodily harm, discharge firearm with intent, using firearm or imitation firearm in the commission of an offence, pointing a firearm, assault against a peace or public officer, and other assaults.

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Note 3.

Includes criminal negligence causing bodily harm, trap likely to cause or causing harm, kidnapping, forcible confinement, hostage-taking, trafficking in persons, abduction, extortion, intimidation of a non-justice participant, explosives causing death or bodily harm, arson, and other violent violations.

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Note: Senior victims refer to those aged 65 to 89 years. Family violence refers to violence committed by spouses (legally married, separated, divorced and common-law partners), parents (biological, adopted, step, foster), children (biological, adopted, step, foster), siblings (biological, adopted, step, half, foster), and extended family. Excludes incidents where the victim's sex and/or age was unknown. Percentages may not total 100% due to rounding. Victims aged 90 years and older are excluded from analyses due to instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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