Table 2
Incidents of police-reported same-sex intimate partner violence in Canada, by sex and age group of victim and accused, 2009 to 2017


Table 2
Incidents of police-reported same-sex intimate partner violence in Canada, by sex and age group of victim and accused, 2009 to 2017
Table summary
This table displays the results of Incidents of police-reported same-sex intimate partner violence in Canada. The information is grouped by Age group (years) (appearing as row headers), Victim, Accused, Females, Males and Total, calculated using percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Age group (years) Victim Accused
Females Males Total Females Males Total
percent
15 to 17 8 4 6 8 4 6
18 to 24 27 20 23 28 23 25
25 to 34 30 30 30 30 32 31
35 to 44 19 22 20 19 21 20
45 to 54 12 16 14 12 14 13
55 to 64 3 6 5 3 5 4
65 and older 1 2 2 1 2 2
Median age 29 33 31 29 31 30
Median age for opposite-sex IPVTable 2 Note 1 31 36 31 32 34 33
Note 1

IPV refers to intimate partner violence.

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Note: Intimate partner violence refers to police-reported incidents of violent Criminal Code offences committed among individuals in current or former legally married or common-law partnerships, boyfriend or girlfriend relationships, or other intimate relationships. Same-/opposite-sex status was derived from the relationship variable, and the sex of the victim and of the accused. Only incidents which involved one victim and one accused person are included. Excludes incidents where the sex or the age of the victim or the accused were unknown, or where the accused-victim relationship was unknown. Incidents involving victims and accused individuals aged 90 years and older are excluded from analyses due to possible instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category. Incidents involving children under 15 years are excluded from the analysis. In order to support more detailed analysis on same-sex intimate partner violence, data have been pooled from 2009 to 2017.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (Trend Database).
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