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Table 3.2
Senior victims of police-reported family and non-family violence, by victim sex and type of violation, Canada, 2018

Table 3.2
Senior victims of police-reported family and non-family violence, by victim sex and type of violation, Canada, 2018
Table summary
This table displays the results of Senior victims of police-reported family and non-family violence. The information is grouped by Type of violation (appearing as row headers), Female victims, Male victims and Total victims, calculated using number and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of violation	Female victims		Male victims		Total victims
Type of violation	number	rate	number	rate	number	rate
Family violence
Homicide and other violations causing death^{Table 3.2 Note 1}	16	0.5	12	0.4	28	0.5
Attempted murder^{Table 3.2 Note 2}	5	0.2	11	0.4	16	0.3
Sexual assault^{Table 3.2 Note 3}	57	2	3	0.1	60	1
Physical assault^{Table 3.2 Note 4}	1,644	51	1,190	42	2,834	47
Other offences involving violence or the threat of violence^{Table 3.2 Note 5}	644	20	479	17	1123	19
Total family violence	2,366	74	1,695	60	4,061	67
Non-family violence
Homicide and other violations causing death^{Table 3.2 Note 1}	10	0.3	20	0.7	30	0.5
Attempted murder^{Table 3.2 Note 2}	7	0.2	11	0.4	18	0.3
Sexual assault^{Table 3.2 Note 3}	413	13	38	1	451	7
Physical assault^{Table 3.2 Note 4}	1,613	50	3,201	114	4,814	80
Other offences involving violence or the threat of violence^{Table 3.2 Note 5}	1,099	34	1,724	61	2,823	47
Total non-family violence	3,142	98	4,994	178	8,136	135
Total victims	5,508	172	6,689	238	12,197	203
Note 1 Includes first degree murder, second degree murder, manslaughter, infanticide, criminal negligence causing death, and other related violations causing death. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Includes conspiracy to commit murder. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Includes sexual assault level 1, sexual assault level 2 (with a weapon or causing bodily harm) and sexual assault level 3 (aggravated sexual assault). Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Includes assault level 1, assault level 2 (with a weapon or causing bodily harm) and assault level 3 (aggravated assault). Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 Includes all other violent violations not otherwise listed. Return to note 5 referrer Note: Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population aged 65 to 89 years. Populations based upon July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division. Family violence refers to violence committed by spouses (legally married, separated, divorced and common-law), children (biological, step, adopted and foster), siblings (biological, step, half, adopted and foster) and extended family members (e.g., grandchildren, nephews, nieces, cousins and in-laws). Victims refer to those aged 65 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. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.

Date modified:: 2019-12-12