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Table 4.2
Child and youth victims (0 to 17 years) of police-reported family violence, by age group of victim and relationship of accused to victim, Canada, 2016

Table 4.2
Child and youth victims (0 to 17 years) of police-reported family violence, by age group of victim and relationship of accused to victim, Canada, 2016
Table summary
This table displays the results of Child and youth victims (0 to 17 years) of police-reported family violence. The information is grouped by Relationship of accused to victim (appearing as row headers), Age group of victim, Total victims, Less than 1 year, 1 to 3 years, 4 to 6 years, 7 to 11 years and 12 to 17 years, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Relationship of accused to victim	Age group of victim										Total victims
	Less than 1 year		1 to 3 years		4 to 6 years		7 to 11 years		12 to 17 years		Total victims
	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent
Parent^{Table 4.2 Note 1}	251	87	1,082	79	1,595	67	2,936	63	3,702	49	9,566	59
Sibling^{Table 4.2 Note 2}	13	4	118	9	372	16	741	16	1,465	19	2,709	17
Other family^{Table 4.2 Note 3}	26	9	176	13	426	18	975	21	1,957	26	3,560	22
Spouse^{Table 4.2 Note 4}	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	413	5	413	3
Total	290	100	1,376	100	2,393	100	4,652	100	7,537	100	16,248	100
... not applicable Note 1 Includes biological, step, adoptive and foster parents. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Includes biological, step, half, adoptive and foster brothers and sisters. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Includes all other family members related by blood, marriage (including common-law) or adoption. Examples include grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins and in-laws. Also includes a small proportion of family violence victims where the relationship of accused to victim was miscoded. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Includes current and former legally married and common-law spouses. Return to note 4 referrer Note: Family violence refers to violence committed by parents (biological, step, adopted and foster), siblings (biological, step, half, adopted and foster), extended family members (e.g., grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins and in-laws) and spouses (legally married, separated, divorced and common-law). Victims refer to those aged 17 years and younger. 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. 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