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Table 2.5
Victims of police-reported intimate partner and non-intimate partner violence, by sex of victim, type of weapon present and level of injury, Canada, 2018

Table 2.5
Victims of police-reported intimate partner and non-intimate partner violence, by sex of victim, type of weapon present and level of injury, Canada, 2018
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of police-reported intimate partner and non-intimate partner violence. The information is grouped by Type of weapon present and level of injury (appearing as row headers), Intimate partner violence, Non-intimate partner violence, Total victims, Female victims and Male victims, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of weapon present and level of injury	Intimate partner violence^{Table 2.5 Note 1}						Non-intimate partner violence^{Table 2.5 Note 2}						Total victims
	Female victims		Male victims		Total victims		Female victims		Male victims		Total victims		Total victims
	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	percent
No weapon^{Table 2.5 Note 3}	4,178	7	743	5	4,921	7	6,478	9	4,510	4	10,988	6	6
Threats^{Table 2.5 Note 4}	3,841	6	578	4	4,419	6	8,063	11	11,070	11	19,133	11	9
Physical force	44,418	74	10,072	67	54,490	72	46,972	63	55,658	54	102,630	58	62
Weapon	7,699	13	3,687	24	11,386	15	12,908	17	32,285	31	45,193	25	22
Firearm	510	1	84	1	594	1	1,706	2	4,595	4	6,301	4	3
Knife or other piercing instrument^{Table 2.5 Note 5}	2,093	3	1,332	9	3,425	5	3,699	5	11,571	11	15,270	9	7
Club or other blunt instrument	729	1	412	3	1,141	2	1,186	2	3,922	4	5,108	3	2
Other weapon^{Table 2.5 Note 6}	4,367	7	1,859	12	6,226	8	6,317	8	12,197	12	18,514	10	10
Unknown	1,365	Note ...: not applicable	356	Note ...: not applicable	1,721	Note ...: not applicable	2,287	Note ...: not applicable	2,562	Note ...: not applicable	4,849	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable
Total type of weapon present	61,501	100	15,436	100	76,937	100	76,708	100	106,085	100	182,793	100	100
No injury^{Table 2.5 Note 7}	25,734	44	6,145	42	31,879	44	46,889	65	54,726	54	101,615	58	54
Injury	32,737	56	8,609	58	41,346	56	25,789	35	47,049	46	72,838	42	46
Minor physical injury^{Table 2.5 Note 8}	31,398	54	8,167	55	39,565	54	24,691	34	41,652	41	66,343	38	43
Major physical injury or death^{Table 2.5 Note 9}	1,339	2	442	3	1,781	2	1,098	2	5,397	5	6,495	4	3
Unknown	3,030	Note ...: not applicable	682	Note ...: not applicable	3,712	Note ...: not applicable	4,030	Note ...: not applicable	4,310	Note ...: not applicable	8,340	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable
Total level of injury	61,501	100	15,436	100	76,937	100	76,708	100	106,085	100	182,793	100	100
... not applicable Note 1 Includes married, separated or divorced spouses, common-law partners (current and former), boyfriends and girlfriends (current and former) and other intimate partners. Includes victims aged 15 to 89 years. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Includes victims aged 15 to 89 years. Excludes unknown relationships. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Includes no threat, physical force or weapon. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Includes threats that are construed to imply that death or injury is possible. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 Includes other piercing/cutting instruments, such as a hatchet, razor blade or arrow. Return to note 5 referrer Note 6 Includes other types of weapons such as explosives, fire, motor vehicles, poison and weapons not otherwise classified. Return to note 6 referrer Note 7 Includes incidents that did not involve the use of weapons or physical force as well as those in which no visible injuries were noted by police. Return to note 7 referrer Note 8 Refers to injuries that required no professional medical treatment or only some first aid (e.g., bandage, ice). Return to note 8 referrer Note 9 Refers to injuries that required professional medical attention at the scene or transportation to a medical facility, or injuries that resulted in death. Return to note 9 referrer Note: The weapon present in an incident (if any) may or may not have caused the injury to the victim (if any). Intimate partner violence refers to violence committed by legally married, separated or divorced spouses, common-law partners (current and former), boyfriends and girlfriends (current and former) and other intimate partners. Victims refer to those aged 15 to 89 years. Victims aged 90 years and older are excluded from analyses due to possible instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category. Excludes victims where the sex or the age was unknown or where the accused-victim relationship was unknown. Excludes data from the province of Quebec due to data quality concerns. Percentages have been calculated excluding unknown type of weapon and unknown level of injury. 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