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Table 10
Young female victims of police-reported violent crime in the North, by type of offence and province or territory, Canada, 2017

Table 10
Young female victims of police-reported violent crime in the North, by type of offence and province or territory, Canada, 2017
Table summary
This table displays the results of Young female victims of police-reported violent crime in the North. The information is grouped by Province or territory (appearing as row headers), Sexual offences, Physical assault offences, Criminal harassment and threat offences and All violent offences, calculated using number and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Province or territory	Sexual offences^{Table 9 Note 1}		Physical assault offences^{Table 9 Note 2}		Criminal harassment and threat offences^{Table 9 Note 3}		All violent offences^{Table 9 Note 4}
Province or territory	number	rate	number	rate	number	rate	number	rate
Provinces overall (Northern regions)	2,533	820	6,478	2,098	1,053	341	10,470	3,391
Newfoundland and Labrador	58	1,322	189	4,307	19	433	270	6,153
Quebec	356	760	454	969	197	420	1,068	2,279
Ontario	910	862	1,542	1,460	303	287	2,888	2,734
Manitoba	327	1,410	1,572	6,778	130	561	2,093	9,025
Saskatchewan	159	1,718	1,007	10,882	85	919	1,285	13,886
Alberta	383	548	1,082	1,548	200	286	1,719	2,460
British Columbia	340	686	632	1,276	119	240	1,147	2,316
Territories overall	335	1,547	1,066	4,923	135	623	1,566	7,232
Yukon	52	994	148	2,828	23	439	228	4,356
Northwest Territories	139	1,827	467	6,137	60	788	678	8,909
Nunavut	144	1,634	451	5,119	52	590	660	7,491
Canada	2,868	868	7,544	2,283	1,188	360	12,036	3,643
Note 1 Includes sexual assault (level 1, 2 and 3), sexual violations against children and other sexual offences. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Includes physical assault (level 1, 2 and 3) and other assault-related offences. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Includes criminal harassment, uttering threats and indecent/harassing communications. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Includes all violent offences. Figures will be greater than the sum of sexual, physical assault and criminal harassment-related offences as the total includes other types of violent offences outside of these categories. Return to note 4 referrer Note: Young women and girls/female victims include those aged 0 to 24 years at the time of the incident. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations are based upon July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division. The North includes the three territories as well as the northern regions of Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia, based on a geographical definition used by the Conference Board of Canada's Centre for the North. Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are not included in this table as they are located exclusively in the South. Excludes victims where sex or age was unknown or older than 89 years. When the number of victims is low for a given province and offence type, exercise caution when interpreting rate. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.

Date modified:: 2019-07-04