Table 2.7
Victims of selected police-reported offences against family members, Canada, 2009 to 2014

Table 2.7
Victims of selected police-reported offences against family members, Canada, 2009 to 2014
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of selected police-reported offences against family members. The information is grouped by Relationship of accused to victim and type of offence (appearing as row headers), 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and Percent change from 2009 to 2014, calculated using number, rate and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Relationship of accused to victim and type of offence 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Percent change from 2009 to 2014
number rateNote 1 number rateNote 1 number rateNote 1 number rateNote 1 number rateNote 1 number rateNote 1 percent
SpouseNote 2 37,953 137.4 36,710 131.3 36,102 127.7 34,759 121.3 33,312 114.8 32,676 111.4 -19
Violations causing deathNote 3 73 0.3 68 0.2 67 0.2 62 0.2 50 0.2 64 0.2 -17
Attempted murderNote 4 69 0.2 63 0.2 68 0.2 51 0.2 62 0.2 63 0.2 -14
Sexual assaultNote 5 811 2.9 848 3.0 842 3.0 926 3.2 879 3.0 890 3.0 3
Physical assaultNote 6 37,000 133.9 35,731 127.8 35,125 124.2 33,720 117.7 32,321 111.4 31,659 107.9 -19
Other family memberNote 7 37,398 112.7 37,134 110.8 37,073 109.6 37,186 108.6 35,270 101.9 34,202 97.8 -13
Violations causing deathNote 3 89 0.3 82 0.2 83 0.2 94 0.3 103 0.3 78 0.2 -17
Attempted murderNote 4 78 0.2 67 0.2 65 0.2 81 0.2 82 0.2 64 0.2 -22
Sexual assaultNote 5 5,154 15.5 5,286 15.8 5,009 14.8 5,006 14.6 4,551 13.1 4,435 12.7 -18
Physical assaultNote 6 32,077 96.6 31,699 94.6 31,916 94.3 32,005 93.5 30,534 88.2 29,625 84.7 -12
Total family members 75,351 227.0 73,844 220.3 73,175 216.3 71,945 210.1 68,582 198.1 66,878 191.2 -16
Violations causing deathNote 3 162 0.5 150 0.4 150 0.4 156 0.5 153 0.4 142 0.4 -17
Attempted murderNote 4 147 0.4 130 0.4 133 0.4 132 0.4 144 0.4 127 0.4 -18
Sexual assaultNote 5 5,965 18.0 6,134 18.3 5,851 17.3 5,932 17.3 5,430 15.7 5,325 15.2 -15
Physical assaultNote 6 69,077 208.1 67,430 201.2 67,041 198.1 65,725 192.0 62,855 181.5 61,284 175.2 -16
Note 1.

Rate per 100,000 population based on population aged 89 and younger.

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Note 2.

Spousal violence includes current and former common-law and legally married spouses. Rates of spousal violence are calculated based on the population aged 15 and older and not the spousal population. As a result, the rate is an underestimation.

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Note 3.

Violations causing death include first degree murder, second degree murder, manslaughter, infanticide, criminal negligence, and other related violations causing death.

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Note 4.

Includes conspire to commit murder.

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Note 5.

Includes sexual assault levels 1, 2 and 3.

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Note 6.

Includes assault levels 1, 2 and 3.

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Note 7.

Includes children, parents, siblings, other immediate family and extended family members.

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Note: Excludes incidents where the sex or age of victim was unknown. Victims aged 90 years and older are excluded from analyses of attempted murder, physical assault and sexual assault due to possible instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category. Excludes spousal victims under the age of 15 years. Excludes a small number of victims in Quebec whose age was unknown but was miscoded as 0. Based on the Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, Trend Database, which includes data from 99% of police services in Canada. As a result, the rates may not match totals presented elsewhere in the report.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, Trend Database.
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