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Table 2.4
Victims of police-reported intimate partner and non-intimate partner violence, by sex of victim, type of weapon present and level of injury, Canada, 2017

Table 2.4
Victims of police-reported intimate partner and non-intimate partner violence, by sex of victim, type of weapon present and level of injury, Canada, 2017
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of police-reported intimate partner and non-intimate partner violence. The information is grouped by Type of weapon present and level of injury (appearing as row headers), Intimate partner violence, Non-intimate partner violence, Total victims, Female victims and Male victims, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of weapon present and level of injury	Intimate partner violence^{Table 2.4 Note 1}						Non-intimate partner violence						Total victims
	Female victims		Male victims		Total victims		Female victims		Male victims		Total victims		Total victims
	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	percent
No weapon^{Table 2.4 Note 2}	4,193	7	779	5	4,972	7	6,864	10	4,667	5	11,531	7	7
Threats^{Table 2.4 Note 3}	3,560	6	543	4	4,103	6	7,441	11	10,160	10	17,601	10	9
Physical force	42,144	74	9,848	67	51,992	72	43,860	62	53,132	54	96,992	57	62
Weapon	7,256	13	3,628	25	10,884	15	12,583	18	31,024	31	43,607	26	23
Firearm	506	1	84	1	590	1	1,841	3	4,629	5	6,470	4	3
Knife or other piercing instrument^{Table 2.4 Note 4}	2,040	4	1,305	9	3,345	5	3,662	5	11,213	11	14,875	9	8
Club or other blunt instrument	738	1	420	3	1,158	2	1,167	2	4,022	4	5,189	3	3
Other weapon^{Table 2.4 Note 5}	3,972	7	1,819	12	5,791	8	5,913	8	11,160	11	17,073	10	9
Unknown	1,259	Note ...: not applicable	396	Note ...: not applicable	1,655	Note ...: not applicable	2,051	Note ...: not applicable	2,384	Note ...: not applicable	4,435	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable
Total type of weapon present	58,412	100	15,194	100	73,606	100	72,799	100	101,367	100	174,166	100	100
No injury^{Table 2.4 Note 6}	23,815	43	5,848	40	29,663	42	43,958	64	51,043	53	95,001	57	53
Injury	31,663	57	8,649	60	40,312	58	25,028	36	46,049	47	71,077	43	47
Minor physical injury^{Table 2.4 Note 7}	30,390	55	8,225	57	38,615	55	23,988	35	40,641	42	64,629	39	44
Major physical injury or death^{Table 2.4 Note 8}	1,273	2	424	3	1,697	2	1,040	2	5,408	6	6,448	4	3
Unknown	2,934	Note ...: not applicable	697	Note ...: not applicable	3,631	Note ...: not applicable	3,813	Note ...: not applicable	4,275	Note ...: not applicable	8,088	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable
Total level of injury	58,412	100	15,194	100	73,606	100	72,799	100	101,367	100	174,166	100	100
... not applicable Note 1 Includes 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 years. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Includes no threat, physical force or weapon. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Includes threats that are construed to imply that death or injury is possible. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Includes other piercing/cutting instruments, such as a hatchet, razor blade or arrow. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 Includes other types of weapons such as explosives, fire, motor vehicles, poison and weapons not otherwise classified. Return to note 5 referrer Note 6 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 6 referrer Note 7 Refers to injuries that required no professional medical treatment or only some first aid (e.g., bandage, ice). Return to note 7 referrer Note 8 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 8 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. Excludes data from the province of Quebec due to data quality concerns. 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:: 2018-12-05