Table 2.1
Victims of police-reported violent crime, by sex of victim and relationship of accused to victim, Canada, 2016

Table 2.1
Victims of police-reported violent crime, by sex of victim and relationship of accused to victim, Canada, 2016
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
Family	57,796	33	28,609	18	86,405	26
Spouse	31,798	18	8,779	5	40,577	12
Current spouse^{Table 2.1 Note 1}	23,142	13	6,446	4	29,588	9
Former spouse^{Table 2.1 Note 2}	8,656	5	2,333	1	10,989	3
Non-spousal family	25,998	15	19,830	12	45,828	14
Parent^{Table 2.1 Note 3}	8,427	5	6,897	4	15,324	5
Child^{Table 2.1 Note 4}	5,515	3	3,336	2	8,851	3
Sibling^{Table 2.1 Note 5}	5,311	3	4,339	3	9,650	3
Other family^{Table 2.1 Note 6}	6,745	4	5,258	3	12,003	4
Non-family	118,505	67	131,301	82	249,806	74
Dating partner^{Table 2.1 Note 7}	42,362	24	11,133	7	53,495	16
Current dating partner	26,284	15	6,995	4	33,279	10
Former dating partner	15,022	9	3,627	2	18,649	6
Other intimate partner	1,056	1	511	0	1,567	0
Friend^{Table 2.1 Note 8}	7,923	4	8,250	5	16,173	5
Business relationship	4,583	3	6,713	4	11,296	3
Casual acquaintance^{Table 2.1 Note 9}	31,646	18	39,589	25	71,235	21
Criminal relationship^{Table 2.1 Note 10}	320	0	1,746	1	2,066	1
Authority figure^{Table 2.1 Note 11}	4,974	3	7,655	5	12,629	4
Stranger	26,697	15	56,215	35	82,912	25
Unknown^{Table 2.1 Note 12}	85	Note ...: not applicable	191	Note ...: not applicable	276	Note ...: not applicable
Total^{Table 2.1 Note 13}	176,386	100	160,101	100	336,487	100
... not applicable Note 1 Includes legally married and common‑law partners aged 15 years and older. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Includes separated and divorced partners aged 15 years and older. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Includes biological, step, adoptive and foster parents. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Includes biological, step, adopted and foster children. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 Includes biological, step, half, adoptive and foster brothers and sisters. Return to note 5 referrer Note 6 Includes all other family members related by blood, marriage (including common‑law) or adoption. Examples include grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins and in‑laws. Return to note 6 referrer Note 7 Includes victims under 90 years of age, including dating partner victims under the age of 15. The counts for dating partner victims do not match the information presented in Section 3 of the report, which examines intimate partner violence for those aged 15 years and older. Return to note 7 referrer Note 8 Includes roommates. 'Roommates' was added as a relationship category beginning in 2013. Return to note 8 referrer Note 9 Includes neighbours. Return to note 9 referrer Note 10 Includes relationships with the victim based on illegal activities, such as drugs or prostitution. Return to note 10 referrer Note 11 Includes persons in a position of trust or authority who are not family members. Includes authority figures and reverse authority figures (e.g., student‑to‑teacher, patient‑to‑doctor, teen‑to‑youth counsellors/group home workers, prisoner‑to guard). 'Reverse authority figures' was added as a relationship category beginning in 2013. Return to note 11 referrer Note 12 Includes incidents where the relationship between the victim and the accused was reported by police as 'unknown.' Return to note 12 referrer Note 13 Includes violations causing death, attempted murder, sexual assault, assault, robbery, criminal harassment, uttering threats and other violations involving violence or the threat of violence. Return to note 13 referrer Note: Family violence refers to violence committed by spouses (legally married, separated, divorced and common‑law), parents (biological, step, adopted and foster), children (biological, step, adopted and foster), siblings (biological, step, half, adopted and foster) and extended family members (e.g., grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins and in‑laws). 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. Spousal violence victims under the age of 15 years are included in the category 'unknown relationship' and not in the categories related to spousal violence. 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.

Date modified:: 2018-01-17

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Table 2.1
Victims of police-reported violent crime, by sex of victim and relationship of accused to victim, Canada, 2016

Table 2.1 Victims of police-reported violent crime, by sex of victim and relationship of accused to victim, Canada, 2016

Table 2.1
Victims of police-reported violent crime, by sex of victim and relationship of accused to victim, Canada, 2016