Table 5
Most serious incident of unwanted behaviour online in the past 12 months, by gender and selected incident characteristic, provinces, 2018


Table 5
Most serious incident of unwanted behaviour online 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 behaviour online 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 5 Note † Men
percent 95% confidence interval percent 95% confidence interval
from to from to
Number of perpetrators
One 64.4 61.6 67.2 48.5Note * 45.4 51.5
More than one 15.2 13.3 17.2 20.3Note * 17.9 22.9
Don't know 19.7 17.6 22.0 30.8Note * 28.1 33.7
Sex of perpetrator
Male (single perpetrator or multiple perpetrators, all of whom were male) 50.9 47.8 53.9 27.4Note * 24.7 30.3
Female (single perpetrator or multiple perpetrators, all of whom were female) 12.1 10.2 14.3 15.8Note * 13.5 18.4
Multiple perpetrators, both male and female 2.7 2.1 3.6 2.7 1.8 4.0
Don't know 33.0 30.4 35.8 52.6Note * 49.5 55.7
Relationship of perpetrator to victimTable 5 Note 1
Family member 11.7 10.0 13.7 6.7Note * 5.2 8.5
Friend, neighbour, or acquaintance 22.3 19.8 25.0 15.6Note * 13.4 18.1
Teacher, professor, supervisor, manager, or boss 0.2 0.1 0.3 0.8Note * 0.4 1.5
Co-worker or classmate 4.4 3.1 6.3 3.3 2.3 4.7
Stranger or known by sight only 31.1 28.2 34.2 24.7Note * 22.1 27.7
Other 1.5 1.1 2.1 1.9 1.2 3.2
Don't know 27.9 25.5 30.3 45.8Note * 42.9 48.8
Spoke to anyone about the incident
Did not talk to anyone 20.9 18.9 23.0 38.7Note * 35.7 41.9
The police 6.1 5.1 7.4 5.7 4.3 7.5
Friends 56.3 53.5 59.0 36.3Note * 33.3 39.4
Family members 44.0 40.9 47.2 30.9Note * 28.1 33.8
Neighbours 3.3 2.5 4.2 2.4 1.8 3.3
Co-workers 16.4 14.3 18.8 12.8Note * 10.9 14.9
Online friends 7.9 6.5 9.5 7.9 6.4 9.7
A lawyer 3.4 2.6 4.4 2.0Note * 1.4 3.0
A counsellor, psychologist, or social worker 9.1 7.7 10.8 3.3Note * 2.4 4.6
Internet service provider 1.6 1.1 2.3 1.7 1.1 2.5
The administrators of the service or website where the incident occurred 8.3 6.2 10.9 4.3Note * 3.2 5.7
Other 2.8 2.1 3.7 2.9 2.1 4.1
Note *

significantly different from reference category (p < 0.05)

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reference category

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Note 1

Respondents who did not state the number of perpetrators are included in the category “don’t know”. 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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