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Table A-13
Senior victims of police-reported violent crime, by accused-victim relationship and sex of victim, Canada, 2012

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	1,810	44	67.7	1,135	24	50.7	2,945	33	60.0
Grown child^Note 2	734	18	27.4	572	12	25.6	1,306	15	26.6
Spouse^Note 3	584	14	21.8	238	5	10.6	822	9	16.7
Sibling^Note 4	176	4	6.6	117	2	5.2	293	3	6.0
Extended family^Note 5	316	8	11.8	208	4	9.3	524	6	10.7
Total friends, acquaintances, other	1,395	34	52.2	2,147	46	96.0	3,542	40	72.1
Casual Acquaintances^Note 6	768	19	28.7	1,156	25	51.7	1,924	22	39.2
Neighbour	279	7	10.4	428	9	19.1	707	8	14.4
Business relationship	154	4	5.8	318	7	14.2	472	5	9.6
Dating partner^Note 7	101	2	3.8	103	2	4.6	204	2	4.2
Friends^Note 8	93	2	3.5	142	3	6.3	235	3	4.8
Stranger	898	22	33.6	1,418	30	63.4	2,316	26	47.2
Unknown	1	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	5	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	6	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable
Total violence against seniors	4,104	100	153.5	4,705	100	210.3	8,809	100	179.3
... not applicable Note 1. Rate per 100,000 population. 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 and 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 new relationship category. 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). Populations based upon July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division. 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.

Date modified:: 2015-11-30