Model 1
Logistic regression: risk of violent victimization, by selected characteristics, 2014

Model 1
Logistic regression: risk of violent victimization, by selected characteristics, 2014
Table summary
This table displays the results of Logistic regression: risk of violent victimization. The information is grouped by Independent variables (appearing as row headers), Odds ratio (appearing as column headers).
Independent variables Odds ratio
Age 0.97Note ***
Number of evening activities 1.02Note ***
Sex  
Male Reference
Female 1.22Note *
5 or more alcoholic drinks in one sitting in past month  
Never Reference
At least once 1.29Note *
Drug use in past month  
Never Reference
At least once 1.96Note ***
Childhood victimization  
Never Reference
At least once 1.79Note ***
Mental health  
Excellent or very goodNote 1 Reference
GoodNote 1 1.28Note *
Mental health-related disability or negative self-assessment of mental healthNote 2 2.12Note ***
Homelessness history  
No Reference
YesNote 3 1.80Note ***
Social disorder in the neighbourhood  
No Reference
YesNote 4 1.93Note ***
People in neighbourhood help each other  
Yes Reference
No 1.35Note *
Likelihood that neighbours call the police if witness what seems like criminal behaviour  
Very likely or somewhat likely Reference
Somewhat unlikely or not at all likely 1.58Note **
Immigrant status  
Non-immigrant Reference
Immigrant 0.67Note **
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significantly different from reference category (p < 0.05)

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Note **

significantly different from reference category (p < 0.01)

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Note ***

significantly different from reference category (p < 0.001)

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Note 1.

Based on a self-assessment of mental health, excluding those who reported a mental health-related disability, a developmental or learning disability.

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Note 2.

Includes people who have a mental health-related disability, a developmental or learning disability or who self-assessed their mental health as fair or poor.

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Note 3.

Includes people who have previously been homeless or have had to live with relatives, friends or in their vehicle because they had nowhere else to go.

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Note 4.

Includes people who reported the problematic presence of at least one type of social disorder in their neighbourhood. Social disorder may include noisy neighbours or loud parties; people hanging around on the streets; garbage or litter lying around; vandalism; people being attacked because of their skin colour, ethnic origin or religion; people using or dealing drugs; people being drunk or rowdy in public places.

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Note: Only significant characteristics were retained in the final model. For all the variables tested, see the variables presented in Tables 4 to 6. Sexual orientation was not included in the model because the sexual orientation question was not asked of the entire sample. Excludes data from the Northwest Territories, Yukon and Nunavut which will be published at a later date.
Source: Statistics Canada, General Social Survey, 2014.
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