Table 2.2
Child and youth victims of police-reported family and non-family violence, by gender and age group of victim, and type of violation, Canada, 2019


Table 2.2
Child and youth victims of police-reported family and non-family violence, by gender and age group of victim, and type of violation, Canada, 2019
Table summary
This table displays the results of Child and youth victims of police-reported family and non-family violence. The information is grouped by Gender of victim and type of violation (appearing as row headers), Age group of victim, Total victims, 5 years and younger, 6 to 11 years, 12 to 14 years and 15 to 17 years, calculated using number and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Gender of victim and type of violation Age group of victim Total victims
5 years and younger 6 to 11 years 12 to 14 years 15 to 17 years
number rate number rate number rate number rate number rate
Family violence
Female victims
Homicide, other violations causing death and attempted murderTable 2.2 Note 1 9 1 5 Note 0svalue rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 2 Note 0svalue rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 2 Note 0svalue rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 18 1
Sexual offencesTable 2.2 Note 2 1,019 90 2,230 186 1,606 275 1,117 190 5,972 170
Sexual assaultTable 2.2 Note 3 436 38 906 75 675 116 711 121 2,728 78
Sexual violations against childrenTable 2.2 Note 4 583 51 1,324 110 931 160 406 69 3,244 92
Physical assaultTable 2.2 Note 5 972 86 1,634 136 1,432 245 1,827 311 5,865 167
Other offences involving violence or the threat of violenceTable 2.2 Note 6 414 36 422 35 326 56 431 73 1,593 45
Total female victims 2,414 213 4,291 357 3,366 577 3,377 574 13,448 383
Male victims
Homicide, other violations causing death and attempted murderTable 2.2 Note 1 18 2 6 Note 0svalue rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 6 1 5 1 35 1
Sexual offencesTable 2.2 Note 2 386 32 629 50 210 35 135 22 1,360 37
Sexual assaultTable 2.2 Note 3 205 17 295 24 111 18 89 15 700 19
Sexual violations against childrenTable 2.2 Note 4 181 15 334 27 99 16 46 8 660 18
Physical assaultTable 2.2 Note 5 1,235 104 2,426 194 1,320 218 1,282 209 6,263 171
Other offences involving violence or the threat of violenceTable 2.2 Note 6 419 35 377 30 185 31 212 35 1,193 33
Total male victims 2,058 173 3,438 274 1,721 284 1,634 267 8,851 242
Total victims
Homicide, other violations causing death and attempted murderTable 2.2 Note 1 27 1 11 Note 0svalue rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 8 1 7 1 53 1
Sexual offencesTable 2.2 Note 2 1,405 60 2,859 116 1,816 153 1,252 104 7,332 102
Sexual assaultTable 2.2 Note 3 641 28 1,201 49 786 66 800 67 3,428 48
Sexual violations against childrenTable 2.2 Note 4 764 33 1,658 68 1,030 87 452 38 3,904 54
Physical assaultTable 2.2 Note 5 2,207 95 4,060 165 2,752 232 3,109 259 12,128 169
Other offences involving violence or the threat of violenceTable 2.2 Note 6 833 36 799 33 511 43 643 54 2,786 39
Total victims 4,472 192 7,729 315 5,087 428 5,011 418 22,299 311
Non-family violence
Female victims
Homicide, other violations causing death and attempted murderTable 2.2 Note 1 2 Note 0svalue rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 1 Note 0svalue rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 1 Note 0svalue rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 5 1 9 Note 0svalue rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded
Sexual offencesTable 2.2 Note 2 396 35 1,426 119 4,270 732 5,077 863 11,169 318
Sexual assaultTable 2.2 Note 3 190 17 552 46 2,251 386 3,926 668 6,919 197
Sexual violations against childrenTable 2.2 Note 4 206 18 874 73 2,019 346 1,151 196 4,250 121
Physical assaultTable 2.2 Note 5 341 30 998 83 2,414 414 4,573 778 8,326 237
Other offences involving violence or the threat of violenceTable 2.2 Note 6 178 16 687 57 2,324 398 3,430 583 6,619 189
Total female victims 917 81 3,112 259 9,009 1,544 13,085 2,225 26,123 745
Male victims
Homicide, other violations causing death and attempted murderTable 2.2 Note 1 1 Note 0svalue rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 1 Note 0svalue rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 11 2 46 8 59 2
Sexual offencesTable 2.2 Note 2 204 17 538 43 509 84 477 78 1,728 47
Sexual assaultTable 2.2 Note 3 116 10 288 23 278 46 302 49 984 27
Sexual violations against childrenTable 2.2 Note 4 88 7 250 20 231 38 175 29 744 20
Physical assaultTable 2.2 Note 5 478 40 2,077 166 3,815 630 5,580 912 11,950 326
Other offences involving violence or the threat of violenceTable 2.2 Note 6 193 16 793 63 2,563 424 3,883 634 7,432 203
Total male victims 876 73 3,409 272 6,898 1,140 9,986 1,632 21,169 578
Total victims
Homicide, other violations causing death and attempted murderTable 2.2 Note 1 3 Note 0svalue rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 2 Note 0svalue rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 12 1 51 4 68 1
Sexual offencesTable 2.2 Note 2 600 26 1,964 80 4,779 402 5,554 463 12,897 180
Sexual assaultTable 2.2 Note 3 306 13 840 34 2,529 213 4,228 352 7,903 110
Sexual violations against childrenTable 2.2 Note 4 294 13 1,124 46 2,250 189 1,326 110 4,994 70
Physical assaultTable 2.2 Note 5 819 35 3,075 125 6,229 524 10,153 846 20,276 283
Other offences involving violence or the threat of violenceTable 2.2 Note 6 371 16 1,480 60 4,887 411 7,313 609 14,051 196
Total victims 1,793 77 6,521 266 15,907 1,338 23,071 1,922 47,292 659
0s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded
Note 1

Includes first degree murder, second degree murder, manslaughter, infanticide, criminal negligence causing death, other related violations causing death and conspiracy to commit murder.

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Note 2

Includes sexual assault and sexual violations against children.

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Note 3

Includes sexual assault level 1, sexual assault level 2 (with a weapon or causing bodily harm) and sexual assault level 3 (aggravated sexual assault).

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Note 4

Sexual violations against children refer to a set of Criminal Code offences that specifically concern offences involving child and youth victims. These include offences such as sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching and sexual exploitation, but exclude sexual assault (levels 1, 2 and 3) and other sexual offences not specific to children.

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Note 5

Includes assault level 1, assault level 2 (with a weapon or causing bodily harm) and assault level 3 (aggravated assault).

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Note 6

Includes all other violent violations not otherwise listed.

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Note: Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population aged 17 years and younger. Populations based on July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography. Family violence refers to violence committed by parents (biological, step, adoptive and foster), siblings (biological, step, half, adopted and foster), extended family members (e.g., grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins and in-laws) and spouses (legally married, separated, divorced and common-law). Victims refer to those aged 17 years and younger. Excludes victims of dating or other intimate partner violence under the age of 12 years. Excludes victims where the gender or the age was unknown or where the accused-victim relationship was unknown. Excludes a small number of victims in Quebec whose age was unknown but was miscoded as 0.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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