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Table 11
Young female victims of police-reported violent crime, by North/South region and selected incident characteristics, Canada, 2017

Table 11
Young female victims of police-reported violent crime, by North/South region and selected incident characteristics, Canada, 2017
Table summary
This table displays the results of Young female victims of police-reported violent crime. The information is grouped by Selected incident characteristics (appearing as row headers), North, South and Percent difference, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Selected incident characteristics	North		South		Percent difference^{Table 11 Note 1}
Selected incident characteristics	number	percent	number	percent	Percent difference^{Table 11 Note 1}
Location of incident
Private property^{Table 11 Note 2}	8,341	69	34,394	59	10
Open area^{Table 11 Note 3}	1,749	15	10,151	18	-3
Commercial area^{Table 11 Note 4}	508	4	3,600	6	-2
School^{Table 11 Note 5}	619	5	4,536	8	-3
Bar or restaurant^{Table 11 Note 6}	149	1	1,508	3	-1
Other location type^{Table 11 Note 7}	551	5	2,620	5	0.1
Physical injury to victim^{Table 11 Note 8}
No physical injury	4,082	34	27,581	48	-14
Minor physical injury^{Table 11 Note 9}	5,292	44	18,026	31	13
Major physical injury^{Table 11 Note 10}	141	1	581	1	0.2
Weapon present during incident^{Table 11 Note 11}
Yes^{Table 11 Note 12}	1,380	13	5,806	13	-1
Physical force or threats only^{Table 11 Note 13}	8,304	76	31,874	73	2
No weapon present	681	6	4,464	10	-4
Total victims	12,036	100	58,022	100	0
Note 1 The difference, in percentage points, between the proportion of victims with a given characteristic in the North compared with the South. When the number of victims is low for a selected characteristic, exercise caution when interpreting percent difference. Percent difference may be adjusted from baseline figures provided in table due to rounding. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Includes a single home, a dwelling unit or a private property structure. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Includes streets, roads or highways, parking lots, transit bus/bus shelters, subway/subway stations, other public transportation and connected facilities, and other open areas. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Includes commercial dwelling units (motel or hotel rooms, bed and breakfast accommodations, short term rental units) or other commercial or corporate places where the principal purpose is to conduct legitimate business for profit, including building or warehouse surrounding areas. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 Includes junior kindergarten through to grade 13 schools or equivalent, whether during supervised or unsupervised activities, as well as university, college or business school campuses. Return to note 5 referrer Note 6 Includes any commercial establishment in which the primary activity is drinking, eating or entertainment. Return to note 6 referrer Note 7 Other location types include other non-commercial/corporate places, hospitals, correctional institutions, convenience stores, gas stations, religious institutions, banks or other financial institutions, construction sites and homeless shelters/mission locations. Return to note 7 referrer Note 8 Included in the calculation of percentages but not listed as a category are incidents that did not involve weapons or physical force and subsequently could not have caused physical injury (12% in the North, 14% in the South). Return to note 8 referrer Note 9 Physical injuries to the victim at the time of the incident or as determined through police investigation that were minor in nature (did not require professional medical treatment or only some first-aid [e.g., band-aid, ice, etc.]). Return to note 9 referrer Note 10 Physical injuries to the victim at the time of the incident or as determined through police investigation that were major in nature (more than ‘trifling’ or ‘transient’ and required professional medical treatment or immediate transportation to a medical facility). Return to note 10 referrer Note 11 Excludes data from the province of Quebec due to data quality concerns. Return to note 11 referrer Note 12 A weapon (e.g., knife, other piercing object, club or blunt instrument, firearm, or other type of weapon) was the most serious weapon present during the commission of the violent offence. Return to note 12 referrer Note 13 Physical force or threats were considered the most serious weapon present during the commission of the violent offence. Physical force can involve the accused using their body strength to cause bodily harm or death (e.g., choking, pushing or punching) and threats include any gesture or vocal indication that conveys to the victim a threat that is construed to imply that death or injury is possible. Return to note 13 referrer Note: Number columns represent the number of young female victims of a police-reported violent crime in 2017. Young women and girls/female victims include those aged 0 to 24 years at the time of the incident. 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. The South includes the southern regions of these provinces in addition to all of Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Excludes victims where sex or age was unknown or older than 89 years. Numbers or percentages may not add up to totals due to exclusion of unknowns in list of categories, or exclusion of selected categories from the Table that represent a minority of victims. The proportion of unknowns are as follows (North only): location of incident, 1%; physical injury to victim, 8%; weapon present during incident, 5%. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.

Date modified:: 2019-07-04