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Table 3.4
Victims of police-reported intimate partner violence, by type of intimate partner relationship and type of weapon present, Canada, 2015 Table 3.4
Victims of police-reported intimate partner violence, by type of intimate partner relationship and type of weapon present, Canada, 2015

Table 3.4
Victims of police-reported intimate partner violence, by type of intimate partner relationship and type of weapon present, Canada, 2015
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of police-reported intimate partner violence. The information is grouped by Type of weapon present (appearing as row headers), Victims of spousal violence, Victims of dating violence and Total victims of intimate partner violence, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of weapon present	Victims of spousal violence^{Table 3.4 Note 1}		Victims of dating violence^{Table 3.4 Note 2}		Total victims of intimate partner violence^{Table 3.4 Note 3}
Type of weapon present	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent
Threats (no weapon)^{Table 3.4 Note 4}	5,071	14	7,570	15	12,641	15
Physical force	26,431	72	35,258	71	61,689	71
Weapon	5,272	14	6,696	14	11,968	14
Firearm	282	0.8	348	0.7	630	0.7
Knife or other piercing instrument^{Table 3.4 Note 5}	1,648	4	2,072	4	3,720	4
Club or other blunt instrument	786	2	816	2	1,602	2
Other weapon^{Table 3.4 Note 6}	2,556	7	3,460	7	6,016	7
Unknown	3,730	Note ...: not applicable	1,815	Note ...: not applicable	5,545	Note ...: not applicable
Total	40,504	100	51,339	100	91,843	100
... not applicable Note 1. Refers to violence committed by married, separated or divorced persons and common-law partners (current and former). Includes victims aged 15 to 89. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2. Refers to violence committed by boyfriends or girlfriends (current and former) and other intimate partners. Includes victims aged 15 to 89. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3. Refers to violence committed by married, separated or divorced persons, common-law partners (current and former), dating partners (current and former) and other intimate partners. Includes victims aged 15 to 89. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4. Includes threats that are construed to imply that death or injury is possible. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5. Includes other piercing/cutting instruments, such as a hatchet, razor blade or arrow. Return to note 5 referrer Note 6. Includes other types of weapons such as explosives, fire, motor vehicles, poison and weapons not otherwise classified. Return to note 6 referrer Note: Intimate partner violence refers to violence committed by legally married, separated or divorced persons, common-law partners (current and former), dating partners (current and former), and other intimate partners. Victims refer to those aged 15 to 89. 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 or where the accused-victim relationship was unknown. Percentages have been calculated excluding unknown type of weapon. Percentages may not total 100% due to rounding. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.

Date modified:: 2017-02-16