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Table 3.5
Senior victims of police-reported family and non-family violence, by sex of victim, type of weapon present and level of injury, Canada, 2018

Table 3.5
Senior victims of police-reported family and non-family violence, by sex of victim, type of weapon present and level of injury, 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 weapon present and level of injury (appearing as row headers), Family violence, Non-family violence, Female victims, Male victims and Total victims, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of weapon present and level of injury	Family violence						Non-family violence
	Female victims		Male victims		Total victims		Female victims		Male victims		Total victims
	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent
No weapon^{Table 3.5 Note 1}	112	7	91	7	203	7	198	8	219	6	417	7
Threats^{Table 3.5 Note 2}	225	13	167	13	392	13	252	11	434	12	686	11
Physical force	1,120	65	758	60	1,878	63	1,615	67	2,183	59	3,798	62
Weapon	258	15	248	20	506	17	332	14	853	23	1,185	19
Firearm	19	1	14	1	33	1	45	2	121	3	166	3
Knife or other piercing instrument^{Table 3.5 Note 3}	76	4	90	7	166	6	83	3	222	6	305	5
Club or other blunt instrument	37	2	38	3	75	3	29	1	113	3	142	2
Other weapon^{Table 3.5 Note 4}	126	7	106	8	232	8	175	7	397	11	572	9
Unknown	25	Note ...: not applicable	18	Note ...: not applicable	43	Note ...: not applicable	51	Note ...: not applicable	75	Note ...: not applicable	126	Note ...: not applicable
Total type of weapon present	1,740	100	1,282	100	3,022	100	2,448	100	3,764	100	6,212	100
No injury^{Table 3.5 Note 5}	978	59	687	55	1,665	57	1,652	70	2,091	57	3,743	62
Injury	692	41	554	45	1,246	43	702	30	1,554	43	2,256	38
Minor physical injury^{Table 3.5 Note 6}	641	38	523	42	1,164	40	665	28	1,399	38	2,064	34
Major physical injury or death^{Table 3.5 Note 7}	51	3	31	2	82	3	37	2	155	4	192	3
Unknown	70	Note ...: not applicable	41	Note ...: not applicable	111	Note ...: not applicable	94	Note ...: not applicable	119	Note ...: not applicable	213	Note ...: not applicable
Total level of injury	1,740	100	1,282	100	3,022	100	2,448	100	3,764	100	6,212	100
... not applicable Note 1 Includes no threat, physical force or weapon. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Includes threats that are construed to imply that death or injury is possible. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Includes other piercing/cutting instruments, such as hatchets, razor blades and arrows. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Includes other types of weapons such as explosives, fire, motor vehicles, poison and weapons not otherwise classified. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 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 5 referrer Note 6 Refers to injuries that required no professional medical treatment or only some first aid (e.g., bandage, ice). Return to note 6 referrer Note 7 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 7 referrer Note: The weapon present (if any) may or may not have caused the injury to the victim (if any). 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. 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