Table 4
Most serious incident of unwanted sexual behaviour in a public space in the past 12 months, by gender and selected incident characteristic, provinces, 2018


Table 4
Most serious incident of unwanted sexual behaviour in a public space in the past 12 months, by gender and selected incident characteristic, provinces, 2018
Table summary
This table displays the results of Most serious incident of unwanted sexual behaviour in a public space in the past 12 months. The information is grouped by Selected incident characteristic (appearing as row headers), Women, Men, percent and 95% confidence interval, calculated using from and to units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Selected incident characteristic WomenTable 4 Note † Men
percent 95% confidence interval percent 95% confidence interval
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Location of the incident
In a restaurant or bar 19.7 18.1 21.5 28.4Note * 25.5 31.6
Inside a school or on school grounds 3.5 2.7 4.7 8.3Note * 6.4 10.7
In a commercial or office building 15.7 14.2 17.4 14.1 12.1 16.3
In a hospital, prison, or rehabilitation centre 1.8 1.4 2.3 1.3 0.8 2.1
On public transportation 12.7 11.1 14.5 10.4 8.6 12.5
In a parking garage or parking lot 2.9 2.4 3.6 2.3 1.6 3.3
Sidewalk or street in respondent's neighbourhood 15.0 13.4 16.8 10.2Note * 8.5 12.1
Other sidewalk or street 12.1 10.9 13.5 8.5Note * 6.7 10.7
Rural area or park 3.1 2.5 3.8 3.2 2.3 4.4
Private residence 4.8 4.1 5.7 5.5 4.1 7.4
Other 5.7 4.8 6.6 5.3 4.2 6.7
Number of perpetrators
One 80.9 79.0 82.5 74.3Note * 71.1 77.3
More than one 18.1 16.5 19.9 24.5Note * 21.6 27.7
Sex of perpetrator
Male (single perpetrator or multiple perpetrators, all of whom were male) 87.8 86.4 89.1 61.7Note * 58.3 65.0
Female (single perpetrator or multiple perpetrators, all of whom were female) 5.3 4.5 6.3 27.3Note * 24.2 30.5
Multiple perpetrators, both male and female 3.6 2.9 4.5 7.4Note * 5.9 9.2
Relationship of perpetrator to victimTable 4 Note 1
Family member 1.8 1.3 2.3 2.9 1.8 4.5
Friend, neighbour, or acquaintance 11.8 10.5 13.2 18.3Note * 16.0 20.9
Teacher, professor, supervisor, manager, or boss 0.8 0.4 1.5 0.7 0.4 1.1
Co-worker or classmate 3.6 2.7 4.7 7.2Note * 5.4 9.4
Stranger or known by sight only 79.6 77.8 81.3 68.1Note * 65.0 71.1
Other 2.2 1.8 2.8 2.6 1.8 3.7
Incident related to perpetrator's alcohol or drug use
Yes 30.2 28.2 32.4 34.2Note * 31.3 37.2
No 35.7 33.7 37.8 38.3 35.1 41.6
Don't know 32.0 30.0 34.0 26.3Note * 23.4 29.4
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significantly different from reference category (p < 0.05)

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reference category

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Excludes respondents who did not state the number of perpetrators. In instances with multiple perpetrators, represents the closest relationship.

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Note: Excludes data from Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut, which will be published at a later date.
Source: Statistics Canada, Survey of Safety in Public and Private Spaces.
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