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Table 3
Sex workers compared with non-sex workers, by selected characteristics of homicides, Canada, 1991 to 2014 Table 3
Sex workers compared with non-sex workers, by selected characteristics of homicides, Canada, 1991 to 2014

Table 3
Sex workers compared with non-sex workers, by selected characteristics of homicides, Canada, 1991 to 2014
Table summary
This table displays the results of Sex workers compared with non-sex workers. The information is grouped by Selected characteristics (appearing as row headers), Sex worker victims and Non-sex workers, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Selected characteristics	Sex worker victims		Non-sex workers^{Table 3 Note 1}
Selected characteristics	number	percent	number	percent
Unsolved homicides (not cleared)	100	34	2,071	20
Female victims^{Table 3 Note 2}	283	96	3,105	30
Aboriginal victims^{Table 3 Note 3}	72	35	995	16
Victims who consumed an intoxicating substance prior to the homicide^{Table 3 Note 4}	168	57	3,891	38
Victims killed by an accused with whom they had a criminal relationship^{Table 3 Note 5}	114	61	738	9
Median age of victims^{Table 3 Note 6}	28.5	Note ...: not applicable	33.0	Note ...: not applicable
... not applicable Note 1. Includes victims who were not identified by police as a 'prostitute', including those not in the labour force at the time of the homicide (36%). Excludes those with unknown occupations (27%). Return to note 1 referrer Note 2. Total excludes cases where the sex of the victim is unknown (less than 0.1% for both sex worker victims and non-sex worker victims). Return to note 2 referrer Note 3. Data from 1997 to 2014 only as prior to 1997, it was not possible to separate reported non-Aboriginal identity from not having been collected by police. Total excludes cases where the Aboriginal identity of the victim was unknown (3% for sex worker victims, 6% for non-sex worker victims) or not collected/released by the police service (3% for sex worker victims, 24% for non-sex worker victims). Note that Aboriginal identity information was available only for females prior to 2014 and thus these figures represent mostly Aboriginal females (99% for sex worker victims, 42% for non-sex worker victims). Figures for non-sex workers should be interpreted with caution given the high proportion of Aboriginal identity unknowns or not collected (30%). The percentage of Aboriginal victims of the non-sex worker group may be an over- or under-estimation of Aboriginal victims due to incomplete data on Aboriginal identity for males prior to 2014. Given that the vast majority of sex worker victims were female, this caution does not impact the figures for sex worker victims. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4. Total includes cases where information on substance consumption was unknown (37% for sex worker victims, 24% for non-sex worker victims). Return to note 4 referrer Note 5. A criminal relationship includes sex workers and their clients, drug dealers and their clients, loan sharks, or gang members. When more than one relationship applies (e.g. criminal relationship and close friend), police are asked to report the primary relationship. Excludes cases where the accused is unknown to police (see unsolved homicides figures, this table) or where the relationship of the accused to the victim was unknown (2% for sex worker victims, 1% for non-sex worker victims). Return to note 5 referrer Note 6. Age of the victim was unknown for 0.1% of non-sex worker victims. These were excluded from the calculations of percentages. Return to note 6 referrer Note: Sex-worker victims includes those whose occupation at the time of the homicide was identified by police as 'prostitute'. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Homicide Survey.

Date modified:: 2016-11-10