Table A-16
Senior victims of police-reported family violence, by sex of victim and type of weapon, Canada, 2012

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	437	27	267	25	704	26
Physical force	967	59	568	54	1,535	57
Weapon
Club or blunt instrument	42	3	36	3	78	3
Knife or other piercing instrument	70	4	77	7	147	5
Firearm	19	1	8	1	27	1
Other weapon^Note 1	109	7	94	9	203	8
Unknown	166	Note ...: not applicable	85	Note ...: not applicable	251	Note ...: not applicable
Total	1,810	100	1,135	100	2,945	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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