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Table 3.4
Victims of police-reported intimate partner violence, by type of intimate partner relationship, type of weapon present and level of injury, Canada, 2016

Table 3.4
Victims of police-reported intimate partner violence, by type of intimate partner relationship, type of weapon present and level of injury, Canada, 2016
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of police-reported intimate partner violence. The information is grouped by Type of weapon present and level of injury (appearing as row headers), Victims of spousal violence, Victims of dating violence, Total victims of intimate partner violence, Female, Male and Total, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of weapon present and level of injury	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}
	Female		Male		Total		Female		Male		Total
	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	percent
Threats (no weapon)^{Table 3.4 Note 4}	4,394	15	726	9	5,120	14	6,282	16	1,179	11	7,461	15	14
Physical force	21,099	73	5,350	67	26,449	72	29,228	73	7,036	66	36,264	71	71
Weapon	3,454	12	1,866	23	5,320	14	4,701	12	2,457	23	7,158	14	14
Firearm	250	1	46	1	296	1	344	1	54	1	398	1	1
Knife or other piercing instrument^{Table 3.4 Note 5}	981	3	680	9	1,661	5	1,320	3	910	9	2,230	4	4
Club or other blunt instrument	495	2	312	4	807	2	477	1	302	3	779	2	2
Other weapon^{Table 3.4 Note 6}	1,728	6	828	10	2,556	7	2,560	6	1,191	11	3,751	7	7
Unknown	2,851	Note ...: not applicable	837	Note ...: not applicable	3,688	Note ...: not applicable	1,391	Note ...: not applicable	396	Note ...: not applicable	1,787	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable
Total type of weapon present	31,798	100	8,779	100	40,577	100	41,602	100	11,068	100	52,670	100	100
No injury^{Table 3.4 Note 7}	15,118	50	4,046	48	19,164	49	17,421	44	4,287	41	21,708	44	46
Minor physical injury^{Table 3.4 Note 8}	14,897	49	4,250	50	19,147	49	21,070	54	5,972	57	27,042	54	52
Major physical injury or death^{Table 3.4 Note 9}	513	2	146	2	659	2	730	2	271	3	1,001	2	2
Unknown	1,270	Note ...: not applicable	337	Note ...: not applicable	1,607	Note ...: not applicable	2,381	Note ...: not applicable	538	Note ...: not applicable	2,919	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable
Total level of injury	31,798	100	8,779	100	40,577	100	41,602	100	11,068	100	52,670	100	100
... not applicable Note 1 Refers to violence committed by married, separated or divorced spouses 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 and 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 spouses, 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 7 Includes incidents that did not involve the use of weapons or physical force as well as those in which no visible injuries were noted by police. Return to note 7 referrer Note 8 Refers to injuries that required no professional medical treatment or only some first aid (e.g., bandage, ice). Return to note 8 referrer Note 9 Refers to injuries that required professional medical attention at the scene or transportation to a medical facility, or injuries that resulted in death. Return to note 9 referrer Note: The weapon present in an incident (if any) may or may not have caused the injury to the victim (if any). Intimate partner violence refers to violence committed by legally married, separated or divorced spouses, 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 and unknown level of injury. 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