Table 4.7
Child and youth victims (0 to 17 years) of police-reported family violence, by sex of victim and province and territory, 2014

Table 4.7
Child and youth victims (0 to 17 years) of police-reported family violence, by sex of victim and province and territory, 2014
Table summary
This table displays the results of Child and youth victims (0 to 17 years) of police-reported family violence. The information is grouped by Province and territory (appearing as row headers), Victims of family violence, Female, Male and Total, calculated using number and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Province and territory Victims of family violenceNote 1
Female Male Total
number rateNote 2 number rateNote 2 number rateNote 2
Newfoundland and Labrador 173 382.7 140 296.6 313 338.7
Prince Edward Island 29 207.3 31 213.9 60 210.6
Nova Scotia 248 312.7 189 223.7 437 266.8
New Brunswick 221 338.4 169 243.6 390 289.6
Quebec 2,779 377.8 1,911 248.3 4,690 311.6
Ontario 2,487 191.9 1,817 133.1 4,304 161.8
Manitoba 646 474.4 414 289.0 1,060 379.4
Saskatchewan 713 582.2 447 346.7 1,160 461.4
Alberta 1,234 282.3 838 181.8 2,072 230.7
British Columbia 927 229.2 614 142.5 1,541 184.5
Yukon 45 1,269.8 20 527.7 65 886.3
Northwest Territories 66 1,224.0 36 648.9 102 932.4
Nunavut 119 1,840.4 69 1,019.4 188 1,420.5
Canada 9,687 289.1 6,695 189.7 16,382 238.1
Note 1.

Family violence refers to violence committed by parents (biological, adoptive, step, foster), siblings (biological, adopted, step, half, foster), extended family and spouses.

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Note 2.

Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population of children and youth. Populations based upon July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division.

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Note: Excludes incidents where the sex and/or age of victim was unknown and where the relationship between the victim and the accused was unknown. Excludes a small number of victims in Quebec whose age was unknown but was miscoded as 0. Excludes spousal victims under the age of 15 years.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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