Table 2.7
Victims of police-reported intimate partner and non-intimate partner violence, by victim sex and urban or rural area, provinces, 2017

Table 2.7
Victims of police-reported intimate partner and non-intimate partner violence, by victim sex and urban or rural area, provinces, 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 Victim sex and urban or rural area (appearing as row headers), Victims of intimate partner violence, Victims of non-intimate partner violence and Total victims, calculated using number and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Victim sex and urban or rural areaTable 2.7 Note 1 Victims of intimate partner violenceTable 2.7 Note 2 Victims of non-intimate partner violence Total victims
number rate number rate number rate
Female victims 73,466 480 89,346 584 162,812 1,064
Urban 55,369 431 69,399 540 124,768 970
Rural 18,097 743 19,947 819 38,044 1,563
Male victims 19,882 133 126,739 846 146,621 979
Urban 14,624 117 101,869 816 116,493 933
Rural 5,258 211 24,870 997 30,128 1,208
Total victims 93,348 308 216,085 714 309,433 1,022
Urban 69,993 276 171,268 676 241,261 952
Rural 23,355 474 44,817 909 68,172 1,383
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 2

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.

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Note: Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population aged 15 to 89 years. Populations based upon July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division. 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 years. 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 territories.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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