Table 7
Incidents of police-reported intimate partner violence in Canada, by sex of victim, same-/opposite-sex status and province or territory, 2009 to 2017


Table 7
Incidents of police-reported intimate partner violence in Canada, by sex of victim, same-/opposite-sex status and province or territory, 2009 to 2017
Table summary
This table displays the results of Incidents of police-reported intimate partner violence in Canada. The information is grouped by Province or territory (appearing as row headers), Same-sex, Opposite-sex, Same-sex IPV incidents, Same-sex spousal violence, Same-sex couples, Females, Males and Total, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Province or territory Same-sex Opposite-sex Same-sex IPV incidentsTable 7 Note 1 Same-sex spousal violenceTable 7 Note 2 Same-sex couplesTable 7 Note 3
Females Males Total Females Males Total
number percent
Newfoundland and Labrador 179 262 441 6,819 1,309 8,128 5.1 5.7 0.5
Prince Edward Island 23 39 62 1,642 300 1,942 3.1 1.1 0.6
Nova Scotia 377 326 703 14,321 3,694 18,015 3.8 3.0 1.0
New BrunswickTable 7 Note 4 138 155 293 8,825 1,638 10,463 2.7 1.7 0.8
Quebec 2,149 3,946 6,095 113,289 25,436 138,725 4.2 3.2 1.1
Ontario 3,860 4,375 8,235 151,165 31,014 182,179 4.3 3.0 0.8
Manitoba 641 451 1,092 32,901 5,700 38,601 2.8 1.5 0.6
Saskatchewan 551 464 1,015 32,403 5,614 38,017 2.6 1.7 0.4
Alberta 891 1,012 1,903 72,226 16,577 88,803 2.1 1.5 0.6
British Columbia 1,026 1,188 2,214 71,042 17,951 88,993 2.4 1.7 1.0
Yukon 36 23 59 1,858 500 2,358 2.4 1.4 1.2
Northwest Territories 50 48 98 4,807 1,055 5,862 1.6 0.7 0.9
Nunavut 54 59 113 6,128 947 7,075 1.6 0.8 0.4
Canada 9,975 12,348 22,323 517,426 111,735 629,161 3.4 2.5 0.9
Note 1

IPV refers to police-reported intimate partner violence. Percentage of all IPV incidents within the province or territory that involved same-sex partners.

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Note 2

Based on police-reported data. Includes individuals 15 years and older who were currently married or in common-law partnerships. Percentage of all spousal violence incidents within the province or territory that involved same-sex partners.

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Note 3

Based on the marital and opposite-/same-sex status variables of the 2016 Census of Population. Percentage of all couples within the province or territory that involved same-sex partners.

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Note 4

Police reported data exclude Saint John Police Force due to data quality concerns.

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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) and Statistics Canada, 2016 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-400-X.
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