Table 1.1
Child and youth victims of police-reported family and non-family violence, by victim sex, age group and relationship of accused to victim, Canada, 2017

Table 1.1
Child and youth victims of police-reported family and non-family violence, by victim sex, age group and relationship of accused to victim, Canada, 2017
Table summary
This table displays the results of Child and youth victims of police-reported family and non-family violence. The information is grouped by Victim sex and relationship of accused to victim (appearing as row headers), Age group of victim, Total victims, 5 years and younger, 6 to 11 years, 12 to 14 years and 15 to 17 years, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Victim sex and relationship of accused to victim	Age group of victim								Total victims
	5 years and younger		6 to 11 years		12 to 14 years		15 to 17 years		Total victims
	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent
Female victims
Family relationship	1,748	70	3,394	56	2,545	25	2,826	20	10,513	32
Parent^{Table 1.1 Note 1}	1,195	48	1,895	31	1,339	13	1,168	8	5,597	17
Sibling^{Table 1.1 Note 2}	240	10	653	11	455	5	507	4	1,855	6
Other family^{Table 1.1 Note 3}	313	13	846	14	751	8	758	5	2,668	8
Spouse^{Table 1.1 Note 4}	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	393	3	393	1
Non-family relationship	744	30	2,642	44	7,442	75	11,514	80	22,342	68
Dating or other intimate partner^{Table 1.1 Note 5}	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	724	7	2,795	19	3,519	11
Friend^{Table 1.1 Note 6}	81	3	370	6	1,264	13	1,449	10	3,164	10
Casual acquaintance^{Table 1.1 Note 7}	309	12	1,354	22	3,832	38	4,631	32	10,126	31
Authority figure^{Table 1.1 Note 8}	164	7	319	5	219	2	309	2	1,011	3
Stranger	183	7	591	10	1,362	14	2,117	15	4,253	13
Other^{Table 1.1 Note 9}	7	0.3	8	0.1	41	0.4	213	1	269	1
Unknown	12	Note ...: not applicable	29	Note ...: not applicable	102	Note ...: not applicable	1	Note ...: not applicable	144	Note ...: not applicable
Total female victims	2,504	100	6,065	100	10,089	100	14,341	100	32,999	100
Male victims
Family relationship	1,618	69	2,601	46	1,299	18	1,482	14	7,000	27
Parent^{Table 1.1 Note 1}	1,275	54	1,918	34	718	10	722	7	4,633	18
Sibling^{Table 1.1 Note 2}	163	7	321	6	237	3	363	3	1,084	4
Other family^{Table 1.1 Note 3}	180	8	362	6	344	5	362	3	1,248	5
Spouse^{Table 1.1 Note 4}	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	35	0.3	35	0.1
Non-family relationship	728	31	3,061	54	6,080	82	9,331	86	19,200	73
Dating or other intimate partner^{Table 1.1 Note 5}	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	46	1	278	3	324	1
Friend^{Table 1.1 Note 6}	40	2	397	7	664	9	830	8	1,931	7
Casual acquaintance^{Table 1.1 Note 7}	277	12	1,638	29	3,262	44	4,277	40	9,454	36
Authority figure^{Table 1.1 Note 8}	230	10	352	6	170	2	176	2	928	4
Stranger	172	7	655	12	1,916	26	3,650	34	6,393	24
Other^{Table 1.1 Note 9}	9	0.4	19	0.3	22	0.3	120	1	170	1
Unknown	8	Note ...: not applicable	14	Note ...: not applicable	12	Note ...: not applicable	3	Note ...: not applicable	37	Note ...: not applicable
Total male victims	2,354	100	5,676	100	7,391	100	10,816	100	26,237	100
Total victims
Family relationship	3,366	70	5,995	51	3,844	22	4,308	17	17,513	30
Parent^{Table 1.1 Note 1}	2,470	51	3,813	33	2,057	12	1,890	8	10,230	17
Sibling^{Table 1.1 Note 2}	403	8	974	8	692	4	870	3	2,939	5
Other family^{Table 1.1 Note 3}	493	10	1,208	10	1,095	6	1,120	4	3,916	7
Spouse^{Table 1.1 Note 4}	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	428	2	428	1
Non-family relationship	1,472	30	5,703	49	13,522	78	20,845	83	41,542	70
Dating or other intimate partner^{Table 1.1 Note 5}	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	770	4	3,073	12	3,843	7
Friend^{Table 1.1 Note 6}	121	3	767	7	1,928	11	2,279	9	5,095	9
Casual acquaintance^{Table 1.1 Note 7}	586	12	2,992	26	7,094	41	8,908	35	19,580	33
Authority figure^{Table 1.1 Note 8}	394	8	671	6	389	2	485	2	1,939	3
Stranger	355	7	1,246	11	3,278	19	5,767	23	10,646	18
Other^{Table 1.1 Note 9}	16	0.3	27	0.2	63	0.4	333	1	439	1
Unknown	20	Note ...: not applicable	43	Note ...: not applicable	114	Note ...: not applicable	4	Note ...: not applicable	181	Note ...: not applicable
Total victims	4,858	100	11,741	100	17,480	100	25,157	100	59,236	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. Victims under the age of 15 years are included in the category "unknown." Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 Includes current and former dating partners or other intimate partners. Other intimate partners refers to violence committed by a person with whom the victim had a sexual relationship or a mutual sexual attraction. Victims under the age of 12 years are included in the category "unknown." Return to note 5 referrer Note 6 Includes roommates. "Roommates" was added as a relationship category in 2013. Return to note 6 referrer Note 7 Includes neighbours. Return to note 7 referrer Note 8 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 counsellor, prisoner-to-guard). "Reverse authority figures" was added as a relationship category in 2013. Return to note 8 referrer Note 9 Includes business relationships and criminal relationships (relationships with the victim based on illegal activities, such as drugs or prostitution). Return to note 9 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. Spousal violence victims under the age of 15 years and dating and other intimate partner violence victims under the age of 12 years are included in the category "unknown" and not in the categories related to spousal and intimate partner 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 unknown relationships. Percentages may not total 100% due to rounding. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.

Date modified:: 2018-12-05

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Table 1.1
Child and youth victims of police-reported family and non-family violence, by victim sex, age group and relationship of accused to victim, Canada, 2017

Table 1.1 Child and youth victims of police-reported family and non-family violence, by victim sex, age group and relationship of accused to victim, Canada, 2017

Table 1.1
Child and youth victims of police-reported family and non-family violence, by victim sex, age group and relationship of accused to victim, Canada, 2017