Table 3
Most serious incident involving unwanted sexual behaviour in a public space in the past 12 months, by gender of the targeted person and selected incident characteristics, territories, 2018

Table 3
Most serious incident involving unwanted sexual behaviour in a public space in the past 12 months, by gender of the targeted person and selected incident characteristics, territories, 2018
Table summary
This table displays the results of Most serious incident involving unwanted sexual behaviour in a public space in the past 12 months. The information is grouped by Selected incident characteristics (appearing as row headers), Women, Men, percent and 95% confidence interval, calculated using from and to units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Selected incident characteristics	Women^{Table 3 Note †}			Men
	percent^{Table 3 Note 1}	95% confidence interval		percent^{Table 3 Note 1}	95% confidence interval
	percent^{Table 3 Note 1}	from	to	percent^{Table 3 Note 1}	from	to
Location of incident
In a restaurant or bar	20	15	25	25	19	33
In a commercial or office building	14	11	18	12	8	18
In an institutional building (school, hospital, prison, rehabilitation centre)	5	3	8	12	7	22
On the street, in a park, in a parking lot or on public transportation	43	38	49	32^Note *	24	40
In a private residence	9	5	14	13	7	22
Other^{Table 3 Note 2}	10	7	13	6	3	13
Number of perpetrators
One	81	77	85	81	73	86
More than one	18	15	23	18	13	25
Sex of perpetrator^{Table 3 Note 3}
Male (one or multiple perpetrators, all male)	93	89	95	56^Note *	47	65
Female (one or multiple perpetrators, all female)	3	2	4	32^Note *	24	42
Multiple perpetrators, both male and female	4	2	7	8	4	16
Relationship of perpetrator to victim^{Table 3 Note 3}^{Table 3 Note 4}
Family member, spouse, partner	3	1	9	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published
Friend, neighbour or acquaintance	19	15	24	34^Note *	25	44
Other known person	7	5	11	14	8	23
Stranger or person known by sight only	70	65	75	46^Note *	37	56
Incident related to perpetrator's use of alcohol or drugs
Yes	63	58	68	59	49	68
No	21	18	26	31	22	41
Do not know	15	11	19	9	5	15
F too unreliable to be published Note * significantly different from estimate for reference category (p < 0.05) Return to note * referrer Note † reference category 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 Includes respondents who reported an alternate location as well as those who did not specify a location (location not stated). Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Excludes respondents who did not state the number of perpetrators. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 In instances with multiple perpetrators, represents the closest relationship. Return to note 4 referrer Note: Because of rounding and the inclusion of “not stated” responses in percent calculations, categories may not add up to 100. Source: Statistics Canada, Survey of Safety in Public and Private Spaces.

Date modified:: 2020-08-26

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Table 3
Most serious incident involving unwanted sexual behaviour in a public space in the past 12 months, by gender of the targeted person and selected incident characteristics, territories, 2018

Table 3 Most serious incident involving unwanted sexual behaviour in a public space in the past 12 months, by gender of the targeted person and selected incident characteristics, territories, 2018

Table 3
Most serious incident involving unwanted sexual behaviour in a public space in the past 12 months, by gender of the targeted person and selected incident characteristics, territories, 2018