Table 1
Unwanted behaviours in public spaces, online and in the workplace in the 12 months preceding the survey, by gender of the targeted person and type of behaviour, territories, 2018

Table 1
Unwanted behaviours in public spaces, online and in the workplace in the 12 months preceding the survey, by gender of the targeted person and type of behaviour, territories, 2018
Table summary
This table displays the results of Unwanted behaviours in public spaces. The information is grouped by Type of unwanted behaviour (appearing as row headers), Women, Men, Total, percent and 95% confidence interval, calculated using from, to and from units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of unwanted behaviour	Women			Men			Total
	percent^{Table 1 Note 1}	95% confidence interval		percent^{Table 1 Note 1}	95% confidence interval		percent^{Table 1 Note 1}	95% confidence interval
	percent^{Table 1 Note 1}	from	to	percent^{Table 1 Note 1}	from	to	percent^{Table 1 Note 1}	from	to
Unwanted sexual behaviours in public spaces
Unwanted physical contact	22	19	25	10^Note *	8	12	16	14	18
Indecent exposure	4	3	6	4	3	6	4	4	5
Unwanted comments about sex or gender	14	12	18	7^Note *	5	9	10	9	12
Unwanted comments about sexual orientation or assumed sexual orientation	7	5	8	5	4	7	6	5	7
Unwanted sexual attention	27	24	30	7^Note *	5	9	17	15	18
Experienced unwanted sexual behaviour in public spaces	35	32	38	16^Note *	13	20	25	23	28
Unwanted behaviours online^{Table 1 Note 2}
Threatening or aggressive emails or messages directed at you personally	15	13	18	10^Note *	8	13	13	11	15
Threatening or aggressive emails or messages sent to a group or on social media	7	5	9	4^Note *	3	6	6	5	7
Posting or distributing, or threatening to post or distribute, intimate or sexually explicit images without consent	2	1	4	2	1	4	2	1	3
Pressure to send, share, or post sexually suggestive or explicit images or messages	7	5	9	2^Note *	1	3	4	3	6
Being sent unwanted sexually suggestive or explicit images or messages	13	11	17	6^Note *	5	8	10	8	12
Experienced unwanted behaviour online	24	21	27	16^Note *	14	19	20	18	22
Inappropriate sexual behaviours in the workplace^{Table 1 Note 3}
Inappropriate sexual jokes	20	17	23	9^Note *	7	11	14	13	16
Unwanted sexual attention, such as whistles, calls, suggestive looks, gestures or body language	17	14	20	2^Note *	2	4	9	8	11
Unwanted physical contact, such as hugs or shoulder rubs or getting too close	14	11	16	3^Note *	2	5	8	7	10
Suggestions that you do not act like a man or woman is supposed to act	9	7	12	4^Note *	3	6	7	6	8
Someone insulted, mistreated, ignored or excluded you because of your gender	12	9	15	4^Note *	2	5	7	6	9
Someone insulted, mistreated, ignored or excluded you because of your sexual orientation or assumed sexual orientation	3	2	5	1	1	3	2	1	3
Someone insulted, mistreated, ignored or excluded you because you are, or are assumed to be, transgender	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	1	0	1
Experienced inappropriate sexual behaviour in the workplace	31	28	34	16^Note *	13	19	23	21	25
All situations
Experienced at least one unwanted behaviour in a public space, online or in the workplace	48	45	51	32^Note *	29	36	40	37	42
F too unreliable to be published Note * significantly different from the estimate for men in relation to the estimate for women (p < 0.05) Return to note * referrer Note 1 Percent calculations include missing or unspecified responses, but these data are not shown unless they represent 5% or more of the total responses. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Percent calculations exclude respondents who reported that they did not use the Internet in the past 12 months. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Percent calculations exclude respondents who did not work in the past 12 months. Return to note 3 referrer Source: Statistics Canada, Survey of Safety in Public and Private Spaces.

Date modified:: 2020-08-26

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Table 1
Unwanted behaviours in public spaces, online and in the workplace in the 12 months preceding the survey, by gender of the targeted person and type of behaviour, territories, 2018

Table 1 Unwanted behaviours in public spaces, online and in the workplace in the 12 months preceding the survey, by gender of the targeted person and type of behaviour, territories, 2018

Table 1
Unwanted behaviours in public spaces, online and in the workplace in the 12 months preceding the survey, by gender of the targeted person and type of behaviour, territories, 2018