Table 3
Number of appearances, median number of appearances, and average number of days between appearances for charges completed in adult criminal provincial court, Canada, 2014/2015 and 2015/2016

Table 3
Number of appearances, median number of appearances, and average number of days between appearances for charges completed in adult criminal provincial court, Canada, 2014/2015 and 2015/2016
Table summary
This table displays the results of Number of appearances. The information is grouped by Type of offence (appearing as row headers), 2014/2015, 2015/2016, Percent change in number of appearances, Difference in median number of appearances and Difference in average days between appearances, calculated using number of appearances, median number of appearances and average number days between appearances units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence^{Table 3 Note 1}	2014/2015			2015/2016			Percent change in number of appearances	Difference in median number of appearances	Difference in average days between appearances
Type of offence^{Table 3 Note 1}	number of appearances^{Table 3 Note 2}	median number of appearances^{Table 3 Note 3}	average number days between appearances^{Table 3 Note 4}	number of appearances^{Table 3 Note 2}	median number of appearances^{Table 3 Note 3}	average number days between appearances^{Table 3 Note 4}	Percent change in number of appearances	Difference in median number of appearances	Difference in average days between appearances
Violent offences	1,702,932	7	31	1,774,478	7	30	4	0	-1
Homicide	3,500	8	26	2,461	9	26	-30	1	0
Attempted murder	5,625	10	21	6,160	10	22	10	0	1
Robbery	89,607	10	24	88,494	10	23	-1	0	-1
Sexual assault	81,978	9	33	87,484	9	32	7	0	-1
Other sexual offences^{Table 3 Note 5}	121,787	9	32	130,809	10	31	7	1	-1
Major assault^{Table 3 Note 6}	371,397	7	30	393,723	7	29	6	0	-1
Common assault	579,423	6	31	595,121	6	30	3	0	-1
Uttering threats	309,130	6	32	315,678	6	31	2	0	-1
Criminal harassment	61,775	6	33	69,035	6	32	12	0	-1
Other violent offences	78,710	7	29	85,513	7	28	9	0	-1
Property offences	1,972,891	6	27	2,109,688	6	26	7	0	-1
Theft^{Table 3 Note 7}	504,871	5	27	534,601	5	25	6	0	-2
Break and enter	230,494	8	25	245,875	7	24	7	-1	-1
Fraud	472,006	8	31	492,322	8	29	4	0	-2
Mischief	271,850	6	28	292,731	6	27	8	0	-1
Possess stolen property	412,111	7	23	460,819	7	23	12	0	0
Other property offences	81,559	8	24	83,340	8	23	2	0	-1
Administration of justice offences	2,138,889	5	23	2,320,457	5	22	8	0	-1
Fail to appear	108,752	4	22	127,999	4	21	18	0	-1
Breach of probation	744,440	5	22	802,931	5	21	8	0	-1
Unlawfully at large	33,293	3	32	40,393	3	29	21	0	-3
Fail to comply with order	1,088,508	5	22	1,167,843	5	22	7	0	0
Other administration of justice offences	163,896	5	30	181,291	5	28	11	0	-2
Other Criminal Code offences	587,725	8	27	665,834	8	27	13	0	0
Weapons	439,703	8	25	515,342	8	26	17	0	1
Prostitution	11,005	8	32	10,863	10	25	-1	2	-7
Disturbing the peace	25,392	4	26	25,619	4	25	1	0	-1
Residual Criminal Code offences	111,625	7	32	114,010	7	30	2	0	-2
Criminal Code (excluding traffic)	6,402,437	6	27	6,870,457	6	26	7	0	-1
Criminal Code traffic offences	616,110	4	46	617,448	4	44	0	0	-2
Impaired driving	460,467	4	51	446,477	4	49	-3	0	-2
Other Criminal Code traffic offences	155,643	6	32	170,971	6	30	10	0	-2
*Total Criminal Code* offences**	7,018,547	6	28	7,487,905	6	27	7	0	-1
Other federal statute offences	944,061	6	35	960,578	6	34	2	0	-1
Drug possession	277,998	5	24	298,597	6	23	7	1	-1
Other drug offences^{Table 3 Note 8}	273,266	9	25	278,344	9	25	2	0	0
Youth Criminal Justice Act	40,052	5	19	38,119	5	19	-5	0	0
Residual federal statute offences	352,745	5	55	345,518	5	53	-2	0	-2
Total offences	7,962,608	6	29	8,448,483	6	28	6	0	-1
Note 1 A charge refers to a formal accusation against an accused person or company involving a federal statute offence that has been processed by the courts and received a final decision. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 An appearance refers to the act of attending court, either in person or as represented by legal counsel, in response to a criminal charge(s). One appearance is counted for each unique date associated with a charge (e.g., appearances on three different days equals three charge appearances). Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 The median is the point at which half of all charges had more court appearances and half had fewer court appearances. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 The average number of days between appearances is calculated by subtracting one appearance date from the date of the previous appearance. The average is based on all of these calculated differences. Excludes charges with only one court appearance. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 Includes, for example, sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching, child pornography, luring a child via a computer and sexual exploitation. Return to note 5 referrer Note 6 Includes, for example, assault with a weapon (level 2) and aggravated assault (level 3). Return to note 6 referrer Note 7 Includes, for example, theft over $5,000, theft $5,000 or under, as well as motor vehicle theft. Return to note 7 referrer Note 8 Includes drug trafficking, production, importing and exporting. Return to note 8 referrer Note: Data excludes information from municipal courts in Quebec due to the unavailability of data. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Integrated Criminal Court Survey.

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Table 3
Number of appearances, median number of appearances, and average number of days between appearances for charges completed in adult criminal provincial court, Canada, 2014/2015 and 2015/2016

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Number of appearances, median number of appearances, and average number of days between appearances for charges completed in adult criminal provincial court, Canada, 2014/2015 and 2015/2016