Table 1.1
Child and youth victims of police-reported family and non-family violence, by victim sex, age group and relationship of accused to victim, Canada, 2018

Table 1.1
Child and youth victims of police-reported family and non-family violence, by victim sex, age group and relationship of accused to victim, Canada, 2018
Table summary
This table displays the results of Child and youth victims of police-reported family and non-family violence. The information is grouped by Victim sex and relationship of accused to victim (appearing as row headers), Age group of victim, Total victims, 5 years and younger, 6 to 11 years, 12 to 14 years and 15 to 17 years, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Victim sex and relationship of accused to victim	Age group of victim								Total victims
	5 years and younger		6 to 11 years		12 to 14 years		15 to 17 years		Total victims
	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent
Female victims
Family relationship	1,984	71	3,708	58	2,686	26	3,039	21	11,417	33
Parent^{Table 1.1 Note 1}	1,364	49	2,088	33	1,340	13	1,303	9	6,095	18
Sibling^{Table 1.1 Note 2}	261	9	731	11	519	5	581	4	2,092	6
Other family^{Table 1.1 Note 3}	359	13	889	14	827	8	1,155	8	3,230	9
Non-family relationship	815	29	2,654	42	7,825	74	11,753	79	23,047	67
Dating or other intimate partner^{Table 1.1 Note 4}	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	875	8	2,981	20	3,856	11
Friend^{Table 1.1 Note 5}	58	2	312	5	1,311	12	1,517	10	3,198	9
Casual acquaintance^{Table 1.1 Note 6}	336	12	1,353	21	3,888	37	4,695	32	10,272	30
Authority figure^{Table 1.1 Note 7}	203	7	316	5	267	3	267	2	1,053	3
Stranger	211	8	654	10	1,441	14	2,113	14	4,419	13
Other^{Table 1.1 Note 8}	7	0.3	19	0.3	43	0.4	180	1	249	1
Unknown	15	Note ...: not applicable	33	Note ...: not applicable	104	Note ...: not applicable	0	Note ...: not applicable	152	Note ...: not applicable
Total female victims	2,814	100	6,395	100	10,615	100	14,792	100	34,616	100
Male victims
Family relationship	1,721	72	2,933	50	1,400	19	1,494	14	7,548	29
Parent^{Table 1.1 Note 1}	1,388	58	2,213	38	832	12	755	7	5,188	20
Sibling^{Table 1.1 Note 2}	134	6	326	6	221	3	315	3	996	4
Other family^{Table 1.1 Note 3}	199	8	394	7	347	5	424	4	1,364	5
Non-family relationship	679	28	2,877	50	5,809	81	9,068	86	18,433	71
Dating or other intimate partner^{Table 1.1 Note 4}	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	50	1	307	3	357	1
Friend^{Table 1.1 Note 5}	46	2	339	6	649	9	791	7	1,825	7
Casual acquaintance^{Table 1.1 Note 6}	247	10	1,527	26	3,316	46	4,222	40	9,312	36
Authority figure^{Table 1.1 Note 7}	199	8	374	6	181	3	162	2	916	4
Stranger	181	8	610	10	1,575	22	3,452	33	5,818	22
Other^{Table 1.1 Note 8}	6	0.3	27	0.5	38	1	134	1	205	1
Unknown	10	Note ...: not applicable	21	Note ...: not applicable	15	Note ...: not applicable	8	Note ...: not applicable	54	Note ...: not applicable
Total male victims	2,410	100	5,831	100	7,224	100	10,570	100	26,035	100
Total victims
Family relationship	3,705	71	6,641	55	4,086	23	4,533	18	18,965	31
Parent^{Table 1.1 Note 1}	2,752	53	4,301	35	2,172	12	2,058	8	11,283	19
Sibling^{Table 1.1 Note 2}	395	8	1,057	9	740	4	896	4	3,088	5
Other family^{Table 1.1 Note 3}	558	11	1,283	11	1,174	7	1,579	6	4,594	8
Non-family relationship	1,494	29	5,531	45	13,634	77	20,821	82	41,480	69
Dating or other intimate partner^{Table 1.1 Note 4}	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	925	5	3,288	13	4,213	7
Friend^{Table 1.1 Note 5}	104	2	651	5	1,960	11	2,308	9	5,023	8
Casual acquaintance^{Table 1.1 Note 6}	583	11	2,880	24	7,204	41	8,917	35	19,584	32
Authority figure^{Table 1.1 Note 7}	402	8	690	6	448	3	429	2	1,969	3
Stranger	392	8	1,264	10	3,016	17	5,565	22	10,237	17
Other^{Table 1.1 Note 8}	13	0.3	46	0.4	81	0.5	314	1	454	1
Unknown	25	Note ...: not applicable	54	Note ...: not applicable	119	Note ...: not applicable	8	Note ...: not applicable	206	Note ...: not applicable
Total victims	5,224	100	12,226	100	17,839	100	25,362	100	60,651	100
... not applicable Note 1 Includes biological, step, adoptive and foster parents. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Includes biological, step, half, adoptive and foster brothers and sisters. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Includes all other family members related by blood, marriage (including common-law) or adoption. Examples include grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins and in-laws. For victims aged 15 to 17 years, includes current and former legally married and common-law spouses. Also includes a small proportion of family violence victims where the relationship of accused to victim was miscoded. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Includes current and former dating partners or other intimate partners. Other intimate partners refers to violence committed by a person with whom the victim had a sexual relationship or a mutual sexual attraction. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 Includes roommates. "Roommates" was added as a relationship category in 2013. Return to note 5 referrer Note 6 Includes neighbours. Return to note 6 referrer Note 7 Includes persons in a position of trust or authority who are not family members. Includes authority figures and reverse authority figures (e.g., student-to-teacher, patient-to-doctor, teen-to-youth counsellor, prisoner-to-guard). "Reverse authority figures" was added as a relationship category in 2013. Return to note 7 referrer Note 8 Includes business relationships and criminal relationships (relationships with the victim based on illegal activities, such as drugs or prostitution). Return to note 8 referrer Note: Family violence refers to violence committed by parents (biological, step, adopted and foster), siblings (biological, step, half, adopted and foster), extended family members (e.g., grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins and in-laws) and spouses (legally married, separated, divorced and common-law). Victims refer to those aged 17 years and younger. Spousal violence victims under the age of 15 years and dating and other intimate partner violence victims under the age of 12 years are included in the category "unknown" and not in the categories related to spousal and intimate partner violence. Excludes victims where the sex or the age was unknown. Percentages have been calculated excluding unknown relationships. Percentages may not total 100% due to rounding. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.

Date modified:: 2019-12-12

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Table 1.1
Child and youth victims of police-reported family and non-family violence, by victim sex, age group and relationship of accused to victim, Canada, 2018

Table 1.1 Child and youth victims of police-reported family and non-family violence, by victim sex, age group and relationship of accused to victim, Canada, 2018

Table 1.1
Child and youth victims of police-reported family and non-family violence, by victim sex, age group and relationship of accused to victim, Canada, 2018