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Table 3.1
Victims of police-reported violent crime, by sex of victim and relationship of accused to victim, Canada, 2015 Table 3.1
Victims of police-reported violent crime, by sex of victim and relationship of accused to victim, Canada, 2015

Table 3.1
Victims of police-reported violent crime, by sex of victim and relationship of accused to victim, Canada, 2015
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of police-reported violent crime. The information is grouped by Relationship of accused to victim (appearing as row headers), Female victims, Male victims and Total victims, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Relationship of accused to victim	Female victims		Male victims		Total victims
Relationship of accused to victim	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent
Intimate partner	72,403	42	19,440	12	91,843	28
Current spouse^{Table 3.1 Note 1}	23,312	13	6,257	4	29,569	9
Former spouse^{Table 3.1 Note 2}	8,619	5	2,316	1	10,935	3
Current dating partner^{Table 3.1 Note 3}	24,950	14	6,623	4	31,573	10
Former dating partner^{Table 3.1 Note 4}	14,412	8	3,646	2	18,058	5
Other intimate partner^{Table 3.1 Note 5}	1,110	0.6	598	0.4	1,708	0.5
Non-spousal family member^{Table 3.1 Note 6}	26,021	15	19,581	12	45,602	14
Friend or acquaintance	47,819	28	62,965	40	110,784	33
Casual acquaintance^{Table 3.1 Note 7}	31,053	18	40,418	25	71,471	22
Business relationship	4,826	3	7,006	4	11,832	4
Close friend^{Table 3.1 Note 8}	7,392	4	7,976	5	15,368	5
Criminal relationship^{Table 3.1 Note 9}	321	0.2	1,511	0.9	1,832	0.6
Authority figure^{Table 3.1 Note 10}	4,227	2	6,054	4	10,281	3
Stranger	26,467	15	57,083	36	83,550	25
Unknown relationship^{Table 3.1 Note 11}	704	Note ...: not applicable	207	Note ...: not applicable	911	Note ...: not applicable
Total	173,414	100	159,276	100	332,690	100
... not applicable Note 1. Refers to violence committed by currently married persons and current common-law partners. Includes victims aged 15 to 89. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2. Refers to violence committed by separated or divorced persons and former common-law partners. Includes victims aged 15 to 89. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3. Refers to violence committed by current boyfriend or girlfriend. Includes victims aged 15 to 89. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4. Refers to violence committed by former boyfriends or girlfriends. Includes victims aged 15 to 89. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5. Refers to violence committed by a person with whom the victim had a sexual relationship or a mutual sexual attraction. Includes victims ages 15 to 89. Return to note 5 referrer Note 6. Includes all other family members related by blood, marriage (including common-law) or adoption. Examples include grandchildren, uncles, aunts, cousins and in-laws. Return to note 6 referrer Note 7. Includes neighbours. Return to note 7 referrer Note 8. Includes roommates, which was added as a relationship category in 2013. Return to note 8 referrer Note 9. Refers to relationships with the victim that are based on illegal activities, such as drugs or prostitution. Return to note 9 referrer Note 10 Refers to persons in a position of authority or trust who are not a family member. 'Reverse authority figures' was added as a relationship category beginning in 2013. Return to note 10 referrer Note 11 Refers to incidents where the relationship between the victim and the accused was reported by police as 'unknown.' Return to note 11 referrer Note: Intimate partner violence victims under the age of 15 years are included in the category 'unknown relationship' and not in the categories related to intimate partner violence. Victims refer to those aged 89 years and younger. Victims aged 90 years and older are excluded from analyses due to possible instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category. Excludes victims where the sex or the age was unknown. Excludes a small number of victims in Quebec whose age was unknown but was miscoded as 0. Percentages have been calculated excluding victims where the accused-victim relationship was unknown. Percentages may not total 100% due to rounding. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.

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