Table 5.3
Senior victims of police-reported family violence, by sex of victim and type of weapon present, Canada, 2014

Table 5.3
Senior victims of police-reported family violence, by sex of victim and type of weapon present, Canada, 2014
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
number percent number percent number percent
Threats (no weapon) 415 24 278 23 693 23
Physical force 1,062 61 705 58 1,767 60
Weapon  
Club or blunt instrument 42 2 50 4 92 3
Knife or other piercing instrument 81 5 81 7 162 5
Firearm 23 1 13 1 36 1
Other weaponNote 1 118 7 83 7 201 7
Unknown 132 Note ...: not applicable 78 Note ...: not applicable 210 Note ...: not applicable
Total 1,873 100 1,288 100 3,161 100
... not applicable
Note 1.

Includes other types of weapon such as explosives, fire, motor vehicles, poison and other weapons.

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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. Excludes a small number of victims in Quebec whose age was unknown but was miscoded as 0. 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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