Table 4.5
Senior victims of police-reported family violence, by sex of victim and type of weapon, Canada, 2013

Table summary
This table displays the results of Senior victims of police-reported family violence. The information is grouped by Type of weapon (appearing as row headers), Female victims, Male victims and Total, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of weapon	Female victims		Male victims		Total
Type of weapon	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent
Threats or no weapon	400	25	255	23	655	24
Physical force	995	62	634	58	1,629	60
Weapon
Club or blunt instrument	41	3	44	4	85	3
Knife or other piercing instrument	77	5	75	7	152	6
Firearm	13	1	9	1	22	1
Other weapon^Note 1	81	5	74	7	155	6
Unknown	131	Note ...: not applicable	73	Note ...: not applicable	204	Note ...: not applicable
Total	1,738	100	1,164	100	2,902	100
... not applicable Note 1. Includes, for example, explosives, fire, motor vehicle or poison. Return to note 1 referrer 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. Percentages have been calculated excluding unknown type of weapon. Percentages may not add up due to rounding. Excludes incidents where the sex and/or age of the victim was unknown. 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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