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Table 4
Most serious incident involving unwanted behaviour online in the past 12 months, by gender of the targeted person and selected incident characteristics, territories, 2018

Table 4
Most serious incident involving unwanted behaviour online 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 behaviour online in the past 12 months. The information is grouped by Selected incident characteristics (appearing as row headers), Women, Men, percentage and 95% confidence interval, calculated using from and to units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Selected incident characteristics	Women^{Table 4 Note †}			Men
	percent^{Table 4 Note 1}	95% confidence interval		percent^{Table 4 Note 1}	95% confidence interval
	percent^{Table 4 Note 1}	from	to	percent^{Table 4 Note 1}	from	to
Number of perpetrators
One	71	62	78	59	49	68
More than one	16	11	24	27	18	39
Do not know	13	8	20	13	8	21
Sex of perpetrator
Male (one or several perpetrators, all male)	63	55	71	52	41	62
Female (one or several perpetrators, all female)	24	18	32	31	22	41
Several perpetrators, both sexes	6	3	12	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published
Do not know	6	4	10	8	4	16
Relationship of perpetrator to victim^{Table 4 Note 2}^{Table 4 Note 3}
Family member, spouse, partner	18	13	25	18	11	27
Friend, neighbour or acquaintance	37	30	45	34	24	45
Other known person	13	9	18	10	6	17
Stranger or person known by sight only	30	24	37	35	25	46
F too unreliable to be published 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 Excludes respondents who did not state the number of perpetrators. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 In instances with multiple perpetrators, represents the closest relationship. Return to note 3 referrer Note: Because of rounding and the inclusion of “not stated” responses in percent calculations, categories may not add up to 100. No difference between women and men were statistically significant (p < 0.05). Source: Statistics Canada, Survey of Safety in Public and Private Spaces.

Date modified:: 2020-08-26