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Table 3.4
Senior victims of police-reported family and non-family violence, by victim sex, incident location and relationship of accused to victim, Canada, 2018

Table 3.4
Senior 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 Senior 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, Child, Spouse, 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
	Child^{Table 3.4 Note 1}		Spouse^{Table 3.4 Note 2}		Sibling^{Table 3.4 Note 3}		Other family^{Table 3.4 Note 4}		Total		Non-family violence
	Female victims	Male victims	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 3.4 Note 5}	92	89	92	93	92	81	90	87	92	88	66	49
Victim and accused occupied	56	57	85	82	45	46	48	49	62	58	38	26
Victim occupied (no accused)^{Table 3.4 Note 6}	35	36	9	11	40	33	37	34	28	30	44	49
Accused occupied (no victim)^{Table 3.4 Note 7}	6	4	3	4	7	9	7	7	6	6	7	9
Neither occupied^{Table 3.4 Note 8}	3	4	2	3	8	12	8	10	5	6	10	16
Open area^{Table 3.4 Note 9}	4	6	4	3	4	8	5	7	4	6	17	28
Other^{Table 3.4 Note 10}	4	5	3	4	5	10	5	5	4	5	17	23
Total	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100
Note 1 Includes biological, step, adoptive and foster children. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Includes current and former legally married and common-law spouses. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Includes biological, step, half, adoptive and foster brothers and sisters. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Includes all other family members related by blood, marriage (including common-law) or adoption. Examples include grandchildren, nephews, nieces, cousins and in-laws. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 Includes single homes, 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 5 referrer Note 6 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 6 referrer Note 7 Includes residential locations that was occupied by the accused but not occupied by the victim. Return to note 7 referrer Note 8 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 8 referrer Note 9 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 9 referrer Note 10 Includes private property structures (e.g., sheds, detached garages, fishing boats), commercial properties (e.g., banks, bars, restaurants, car dealerships, convenience stores, gas stations), schools (including universities and colleges) during supervised and unsupervised activities, and non-commercial locations (e.g., government buildings, community centres), among others (e.g., religious institutions, hospitals, correctional institutions). Return to note 10 referrer Note: 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. 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