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Table 7
Rates of non-spousal family violence and intimate partner violence, by selected offence, police serving majority Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations, 2018

Table 7
Rates of non-spousal family violence and intimate partner violence, by selected offence, police serving majority Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations, 2018
Table summary
This table displays the results of Rates of non-spousal family violence and intimate partner violence. The information is grouped by Type of offence (appearing as row headers), Indigenous and Non-Indigenous, calculated using rate and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of offence	Indigenous		Non-Indigenous
Type of offence	rate	percent	rate	percent
Non-spousal family violence^{Table 7 Note 1}
Homicide, other violations causing death and attempted murder	3.8	0	0.5	0
Sexual assault (levels 1, 2, and 3)	121	6	10	9
Sexual violations against children^{Table 7 Note 2}^{Table 7 Note 3}	81	4	8	7
Major assault (levels 2 and 3)	395	21	17	14
Common assault - level 1	1,141	59	62	51
Other violent Criminal Code violations	182	9	23	19
Total violent offences	1,924	100	121	100
Intimate partner violence^{Table 7 Note 4}
Homicide, other violations causing death and attempted murder	6.4	0	0.5	0
Sexual assault (levels 1, 2, and 3)	53	2	13	5
Sexual violations against children^{Table 7 Note 2}^{Table 7 Note 3}	10	0	1	0
Major assault (levels 2 and 3)	513	20	36	14
Common assault - level 1	1,778	69	150	59
Other violent Criminal Code violations	216	8	51	20
Total violent offences	2,576	100	252	100
Note 1 Victims of non-spousal family violence includes all victims where the perpetrator was identified as a parent, child, other immediate family, or extended family member. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Excludes sexual assaults against children and youth, which are reported as level 1, 2 or 3 sexual assault. Children under age 18 represent a much larger proportion of the population in Indigenous communities. As a result the difference in rates of sexual violations against children in this table is overestimated. See text for discussion of this. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Includes sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching, sexual exploitation, luring a child via telecommunications/agreement or arrangement, making sexually explicit material available to a child for the purpose of facilitating sexual offences against children/youth, and the offences of parent or guardian procuring sexual activity, householder permitting prohibited sexual activity, agreement or arrangement of a sexual offence against a child, and bestiality in the presence of or inciting a child (s. 160 (3)). Incidents of child pornography are not included in the category of sexual violations against children. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Intimate partner violence refers to violence committed by legally married, separated or divorced spouses, common-law partners (current and former), dating partners (current and former) and other intimate partners. Return to note 4 referrer Note: The category "Indigenous" refers to police services that served a population where more than 50% of the population they serve identified as Aboriginal in the 2016 Census, or lived on reserve. The category "Non-Indigenous" refers to those police services where the majority of the population did not identify as Aboriginal in the 2016 Census or did not live on reserve. See the section "Data sources and concepts" for an explanation of the method used to identify police services serving majority Indigenous populations. Rates are calculated per 100,000 population aged 0 to 89. Excludes victims where age is unknown or over 89. Excludes police services not reporting to the UCR2 survey. Overall, the data from the UCR2 survey covers 90% of the police services identified as serving Indigenous populations and 85% of their populations. Populations are based upon July 1^st estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (UCR2).

Date modified:: 2020-11-18