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Table 1.4
Child and youth victims of police-reported family and non-family violence, by victim sex, incident location and relationship of accused to victim, Canada, 2018

Table 1.4
Child and youth victims of police-reported family and non-family violence, by victim sex, incident location 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 Incident location (appearing as row headers), Family violence, Non-family violence, Parent, Sibling, Other family, Total, Female victims and Male victims, calculated using percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Incident location	Family violence								Non-family violence
	Parent^{Table 1.4 Note 1}		Sibling^{Table 1.4 Note 2}		Other family^{Table 1.4 Note 3}		Total		Non-family violence
	Female victims	Male victims	Female victims	Male victims	Female victims	Male victims	Female victims	Male victims	Female victims	Male victims
	percent
Residential location and occupancy status^{Table 1.4 Note 4}	92	91	91	91	87	85	91	90	48	24
Victim and accused occupied	73	75	62	72	34	42	60	69	10	12
Victim occupied (no accused)^{Table 1.4 Note 5}	11	11	16	12	25	23	16	13	38	43
Accused occupied (no victim)^{Table 1.4 Note 6}	11	10	13	9	23	18	15	11	26	16
Neither occupied^{Table 1.4 Note 7}	5	5	9	6	18	17	9	7	26	29
Private property structure^{Table 1.4 Note 8}	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.4	1	0.2	0.3	0.4	0.2
Commercial property^{Table 1.4 Note 9}	1	2	1	1	1	2	1	2	6	7
School^{Table 1.4 Note 10}	1	1	1	1	2	3	1	1	21	29
Open area^{Table 1.4 Note 11}	4	4	4	5	6	7	5	5	20	35
Other^{Table 1.4 Note 12}	2	2	2	1	2	2	2	2	4	5
Total	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100
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 single houses, dwelling units (e.g., apartment units, condo units), commercial dwelling units (e.g., hotel rooms), nursing homes, retirement homes, community group homes and halfway houses. Occupancy status applies only to residential locations. It describes whether the residence was occupied by the victim or the accused at the time of the incident. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 Includes residential locations that was occupied by the victim but not occupied by the accused. Also includes residential locations occupied by the victim but unknown if occupied by the accused. Return to note 5 referrer Note 6 Includes residential locations that was occupied by the accused but not occupied by the victim. Return to note 6 referrer Note 7 Includes residential locations occupied by neither the victim nor the accused. Also includes residential locations not occupied by the victim but unknown if occupied by the accused. Return to note 7 referrer Note 8 Includes private property structures (e.g., sheds, detached garages, fishing boats). Return to note 8 referrer Note 9 Includes buildings, warehouses and corporate locations where the principal purpose is to conduct legitimate business for profit (e.g., banks, bars, restaurants, car dealerships, convenience stores, gas stations). Return to note 9 referrer Note 10 Includes schools—junior kindergarten through grade 13 or CÉGEP—and universities and colleges during supervised and unsupervised activities. Return to note 10 referrer Note 11 Includes parking lots, streets, roads, highways and other open areas (e.g., playgrounds, parks, fields). Also includes transit buses and bus shelters, subways and subway stations, and other forms of public transportation and connected facilities. Return to note 11 referrer Note 12 Includes religious institutions, hospitals, correctional institutions and other non-commercial locations (e.g., government buildings, community centres). Return to note 12 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. Excludes spousal victims under the age of 15 years and victims of dating or other intimate partner violence under the age of 12 years. Excludes victims where the sex or the age was unknown or where the accused-victim relationship was unknown. Percentages have been calculated excluding unknown location and unknown occupancy. 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