Table 1.7
Child and youth victims of police-reported family and non-family violence, by victim sex, age group and urban or rural area, provinces, 2017

Table 1.7
Child and youth victims of police-reported family and non-family violence, by victim sex, age group and urban or rural area, provinces, 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 urban or rural area (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 rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Victim sex and urban or rural areaTable 1.7 Note 1 Age group of victim Total victims
5 years and younger 6 to 11 years 12 to 14 years 15 to 17 years
number rate number rate number rate number rate number rate
Family violence
Female victims 1,710 151 3,352 291 2,495 455 2,738 483 10,295 303
Urban 1,269 135 2,404 252 1,715 378 1,939 412 7,327 260
Rural 441 237 948 484 780 826 799 822 2,968 517
Male victims 1,598 134 2,570 213 1,281 222 1,442 240 6,891 193
Urban 1,238 125 1,965 196 887 186 980 197 5,070 171
Rural 360 183 605 293 394 396 462 445 1,821 300
Total victims 3,308 143 5,922 251 3,776 335 4,180 358 17,186 246
Urban 2,507 129 4,369 223 2,602 279 2,919 302 12,397 214
Rural 801 209 1,553 386 1,174 605 1,261 627 4,789 406
Non-family violence
Female victims 731 65 2,593 225 7,333 1,338 11,281 1,988 21,938 646
Urban 561 59 1,821 191 5,537 1,220 8,646 1,839 16,565 587
Rural 170 91 772 394 1,796 1,903 2,635 2,711 5,373 936
Male victims 723 61 3,005 249 6,005 1,039 9,250 1,539 18,983 531
Urban 575 58 2,165 216 4,789 1,002 7,669 1,542 15,198 511
Rural 148 75 840 407 1,216 1,221 1,581 1,523 3,785 624
Total victims 1,454 63 5,598 237 13,338 1,185 20,531 1,757 40,921 587
Urban 1,136 59 3,986 204 10,326 1,108 16,315 1,686 31,763 548
Rural 318 83 1,612 401 3,012 1,552 4,216 2,098 9,158 776
Note 1

An urban area is defined as a census metropolitan area (CMA) or a census agglomeration (CA). A CMA consists of one or more neighbouring municipalities situated around a major urban core. A CMA must have a total population of at least 100,000, of which 50,000 or more live in the urban core. To be included in the CMA, adjacent municipalities must have a high degree of integration with the central urban area, as measured by commuting flows derived from census data. A CA must have a core population of at least 10,000. Rural areas are all areas outside of CMAs and CAs.

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Note: Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population aged 17 years and younger. Populations based upon July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division. 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 and victims of dating or other intimate partner violence under the age of 12 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. Excludes data from the territories.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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