Table 12
Violent victimization in the past 12 months, by type of victimization, gender of victim, and selected incident characteristic, provinces, 2018


Table 12
Violent victimization in the past 12 months, by type of victimization, gender of victim, and selected incident characteristic, provinces, 2018
Table summary
This table displays the results of Violent victimization in the past 12 months. The information is grouped by Selected incident characteristic (appearing as row headers), Physical assault, Sexual assault, Women, Men, percent and 95% confidence interval, calculated using from, to, from and to units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Selected incident characteristic Physical assault Sexual assault
WomenTable 12 Note † Men WomenTable 12 Note † Men
percentTable 12 Note 1 95% confidence interval percentTable 12 Note 1 95% confidence interval percentTable 12 Note 1 95% confidence interval percentTable 12 Note 1 95% confidence interval
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Location of the incident
Private residence, property, or surrounding area 49.2 39.5 59.0 19.5Note * 15.2 24.6 35.5 28.6 42.9 34.5 22.8 48.4
Commercial or institutional establishment 27.2 19.2 37.1 39.6Note * 33.7 45.9 37.6 30.1 45.8 46.5 34.9 58.4
Street or other public place 14.9 10.6 20.7 31.0Note * 25.5 37.2 17.8 12.6 24.7 Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published
Other 5.8 3.3 10.2 9.3 6.3 13.5 6.4 3.5 11.4 10.1 5.0 19.4
Number of perpetrators
One 87.3 80.6 91.8 80.4 74.9 85.0 91.3 86.3 94.6 91.3 77.1 97.0
More than one 9.4 5.9 14.6 17.7Note * 13.3 23.1 5.9 3.4 10.0 Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published
Sex of perpetrator
Male (single perpetrator or multiple perpetrators, all of whom were male) 68.2 58.7 76.5 86.6Note * 81.4 90.5 94.6 90.8 96.9 41.0Note * 29.3 53.8
Female (single perpetrator or multiple perpetrators, all of whom were female) 23.1 16.0 32.2 8.0Note * 4.9 12.7 Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published 55.8 43.2 67.8
Multiple perpetrators, both male and female 4.2 2.2 8.0 3.3 1.7 6.4 Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published
Presence of a weapon
Yes 21.0 13.5 31.1 23.5 18.6 29.1 4.4 2.4 7.9 Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published
Gun Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published 2.4 1.2 4.9 Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published
Knife 9.1 4.8 16.8 6.5 4.2 9.9 Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published
Other 12.9 6.9 23.1 15.2 11.2 20.3 Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published
No 66.7 56.3 75.7 68.7 62.4 74.4 92.6 88.0 95.5 96.9 91.0 99.0
Don't know 10.0 5.2 18.4 7.2 4.1 12.3 Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published
Victim sustained injuries
Yes 29.1 21.2 38.4 22.9 18.0 28.8 8.4 5.6 12.6 Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published
No 68.7 58.9 77.0 76.7 70.8 81.7 90.0 85.1 93.4 93.9 87.2 97.2
Incident reported to police
Yes 25.6 18.4 34.4 32.6 26.9 38.9 5.0 3.1 8.1 Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published
No 72.1 63.1 79.7 67.2 60.9 73.0 93.4 89.3 96.0 97.7Note * 93.9 99.2
F too unreliable to be published
Note *

significantly different from reference category (p < 0.05)

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Note †

reference category

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Note 1

Percent calculations include missing or not stated responses but are not displayed unless they represent 5% or more of total responses.

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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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