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Table 5
Incidents of police-reported opposite-sex intimate partner violence in Canada, by sex of accused, type of weapon present, and level of injury, 2009 to 2017

Table 5
Incidents of police-reported opposite-sex intimate partner violence in Canada, by sex of accused, type of weapon present, and level of injury, 2009 to 2017
Table summary
This table displays the results of Incidents of police-reported opposite-sex intimate partner violence in Canada. The information is grouped by Type of weapon present (appearing as row headers), Females, Males and Total , calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of weapon present^{Table 5 Note 1}	Females		Males		Total
Type of weapon present^{Table 5 Note 1}	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent
Threats (no weapon)^{Table 5 Note 2}	6,918	8	53,157	13	60,075	12
Physical force	57,992	67	304,100	75	362,092	74
Weapon	20,422	24	41,792	10	62,214	13
Firearm	199	0.2	2,220	0.5	2,419	0.5
Knife^{Table 5 Note 3}	7,773	9	11,427	3	19,200	4
Club or other blunt instrument	2,584	3	4,752	1	7,336	1
Other weapon^{Table 5 Note 4}	9,866	11	23,393	6	33,259	7
Unknown	967	1	5,088	1	6,055	1
Total^{Table 5 Note 5}	86,299	100	404,137	100	490,436	100
Level of injury^{Table 5 Note 6}
No injury	45,041	40	221,406	43	266,447	42
Minor physical injury	60,829	54	266,251	51	327,080	52
Major physical injury or death	2,011	2	8,807	2	10,818	2
Unknown	3,854	3	20,962	4	24,816	4
Total	111,735	100	517,426	100	629,161	100
Note 1 Based on the most serious weapon present during the commission of the incident. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Includes threats that are construed to imply that death or injury is possible. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Includes other piercing/cutting instruments, such as a hatchet, razor blade or arrow. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Includes other types of weapon such as explosives, fire, motor vehicles, poison and other weapons. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 Excludes data from the province of Quebec due to data quality concerns. Therefore, totals do not match totals presented elsewhere. Return to note 5 referrer Note 6 Based on the extent of injury experienced by the victim at the time of the incident, or as determined through investigation. Incidents where weapons or physical force were not used against the victim or where there were no visible physical injuries though weapons or physical force were used, are grouped together under the category "No injury". Return to note 6 referrer 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. 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).

Date modified:: 2019-03-20