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Table 3.1
Senior victims of police-reported family and non-family violence, by victim sex and relationship of accused to victim, Canada, 2017

Table 3.1
Senior victims of police-reported family and non-family violence, by victim sex and relationship of accused to victim, Canada, 2017
Table summary
This table displays the results of Senior victims of police-reported family and non-family violence. The information is grouped by Relationship of accused to victim (appearing as row headers), Female victims, Male victims and Total victims, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Relationship of accused to victim	Female victims		Male victims		Total victims
Relationship of accused to victim	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent
Family relationship	2,197	43	1,588	26	3,785	33
Child^{Table 3.1 Note 1}	628	12	586	9	1,214	11
Spouse^{Table 3.1 Note 2}	709	14	295	5	1,004	9
Sibling^{Table 3.1 Note 3}	255	5	189	3	444	4
Other family^{Table 3.1 Note 4}	605	12	518	8	1,123	10
Non-family relationship	2,971	57	4,617	74	7,588	67
Dating or other intimate partner^{Table 3.1 Note 5}	136	3	119	2	255	2
Friend^{Table 3.1 Note 6}	194	4	339	5	533	5
Casual acquaintance^{Table 3.1 Note 7}	1,412	27	1,728	28	3,140	28
Authority figure^{Table 3.1 Note 8}	129	2	92	1	221	2
Stranger	944	18	1,998	32	2,942	26
Other^{Table 3.1 Note 9}	156	3	341	5	497	4
Unknown	2	Note ...: not applicable	5	Note ...: not applicable	7	Note ...: not applicable
Total victims	5,170	100	6,210	100	11,380	100
... not applicable Note 1 Includes biological, step, adoptive and foster children. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Includes current and former legally married and common-law spouses. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Includes biological, step, half, adoptive and foster brothers and sisters. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Includes all other family members related by blood, marriage (including common-law) or adoption. Examples include grandchildren, nephews, nieces, cousins and in-laws. 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. 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 and patient-to-doctor). "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 spouses (legally married, separated, divorced and common-law), children (biological, step, adopted and foster), siblings (biological, step, half, adopted and foster) and extended family members (e.g., grandchildren, nephews, nieces, cousins and in-laws). Victims refer to those aged 65 to 89 years. Accused and 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. 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