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Table 2.9
Victims of police-reported family violence for selected violent violations, by relationship of accused to victim and type of violation, Canada, 2009 to 2016 Table 2.9
Victims of police-reported family violence for selected violent violations, by relationship of accused to victim and type of violation, Canada, 2009 to 2016

Table 2.9
Victims of police-reported family violence for selected violent violations, by relationship of accused to victim and type of violation, Canada, 2009 to 2016
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of police-reported family violence for selected violent violations. The information is grouped by Relationship of accused to victim and type of violation (appearing as row headers), 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and Percent change of rate from 2011 to 2016, calculated using rate, number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Relationship of accused to victim and type of violation	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015		2016		Percent change of rate from 2011 to 2016
Relationship of accused to victim and type of violation	rate						number	rate	number	rate	percent
Spouse^{Table 2.9 Note 1}	114	110	107	102	96	93	32,581	92	32,433	91	-15
Violations causing death^{Table 2.9 Note 2}	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.2	61	0.2	53	0.1	-25
Attempted murder^{Table 2.9 Note 3}	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.2	56	0.2	53	0.1	-26
Sexual assault^{Table 2.9 Note 4}	2	3	2	3	3	3	938	3	1,016	3	14
Physical assault^{Table 2.9 Note 5}	111	107	104	98	93	90	31,526	89	31,311	88	-15
Other immediate and extended family^{Table 2.9 Note 6}	113	111	110	109	102	98	34,524	98	34,293	96	-12
Violations causing death^{Table 2.9 Note 2}	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.2	110	0.3	92	0.3	5
Attempted murder^{Table 2.9 Note 3}	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	103	0.3	84	0.2	23
Sexual assault^{Table 2.9 Note 4}	16	16	15	15	13	13	4,043	11	3,374	9	-36
Physical assault^{Table 2.9 Note 5}	97	95	94	93	88	85	30,268	86	30,743	86	-9
Total family	227	220	216	210	198	191	67,105	190	66,726	187	-14
Violations causing death^{Table 2.9 Note 2}	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.4	171	0.5	145	0.4	-8
Attempted murder^{Table 2.9 Note 3}	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	159	0.5	137	0.4	-2
Sexual assault^{Table 2.9 Note 4}	18	18	17	17	16	15	4,981	14	4,390	12	-29
Physical assault^{Table 2.9 Note 5}	208	201	198	192	182	175	61,794	175	62,054	174	-12
Note 1 Spouses include legally married, separated, divorced and common-law partners. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Violations causing death include first degree murder, second degree murder, manslaughter, infanticide, criminal negligence, and other related violations causing death. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Includes conspire to commit murder. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Includes sexual assault levels 1, 2 and 3. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 Includes assault levels 1, 2 and 3. Return to note 5 referrer Note 6 Includes parents, children, siblings and extended family members. Return to note 6 referrer Note: Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations based upon July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division. 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. Excludes spousal victims under the age of 15 years. Excludes victims where the sex or the age was unknown or where the accused-victim relationship was unknown. Excludes a small number of victims in Quebec whose age was unknown but was miscoded as 0. Based on the Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, Trend Database, which includes data from 99% of police services in Canada. As a result, numbers may not match those presented elsewhere in the report. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, Trend Database.

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