Table 3.3
Victims of police-reported intimate partner and non-intimate partner violence, by gender of victim, type of weapon present and level of injury, Canada, 2019


Table 3.3
Victims of police-reported intimate partner and non-intimate partner violence, by gender of victim, type of weapon present and level of injury, Canada, 2019
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of police-reported intimate partner and non-intimate partner violence. The information is grouped by Type of weapon present and level of injury (appearing as row headers), Intimate partner violence, Non-intimate partner violence, Female victims, Male victims and Total victims, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of weapon present and level of injury Intimate partner violence Non-intimate partner violence
Female victims Male victims Total victims Female victims Male victims Total victims
number percent number percent number percent number percent number percent number percent
Type of weapon present
No weaponTable 3.3 Note 1 5,037 8 976 6 6,013 7 7,871 10 5,232 5 13,103 7
ThreatsTable 3.3 Note 2 4,158 6 625 4 4,783 6 8,383 10 11,616 10 19,999 10
Physical force 47,585 73 11,328 67 58,913 72 50,814 62 59,964 53 110,778 57
Weapon 8,240 13 4,065 24 12,305 15 14,461 18 35,888 32 50,349 26
Firearm 559 1 101 1 660 1 1,834 2 5,037 4 6,871 4
Knife or other piercing instrumentTable 3.3 Note 3 2,188 3 1,401 8 3,589 4 3,995 5 12,600 11 16,595 9
Club or other blunt instrument 838 1 503 3 1,341 2 1,309 2 4,264 4 5,573 3
Other weaponTable 3.3 Note 4 4,655 7 2,060 12 6,715 8 7,323 9 13,987 12 21,310 11
Unknown 2,090 Note ...: not applicable 561 Note ...: not applicable 2,651 Note ...: not applicable 3,186 Note ...: not applicable 3,349 Note ...: not applicable 6,535 Note ...: not applicable
Total 67,110 100 17,555 100 84,665 100 84,715 100 116,049 100 200,764 100
Level of injury
No physical injuryTable 3.3 Note 5 29,328 47 7,240 44 36,568 46 51,851 65 61,089 55 112,940 60
Physical injury 33,497 53 9,370 56 42,867 54 27,362 35 49,069 45 76,431 40
Minor physical injuryTable 3.3 Note 6 32,135 51 8,971 54 41,106 52 26,255 33 43,621 40 69,876 37
Major physical injury or deathTable 3.3 Note 7 1,362 2 399 2 1,761 2 1,107 1 5,448 5 6,555 3
Unknown 4,285 Note ...: not applicable 945 Note ...: not applicable 5,230 Note ...: not applicable 5,502 Note ...: not applicable 5,891 Note ...: not applicable 11,393 Note ...: not applicable
Total 67,110 100 17,555 100 84,665 100 84,715 100 116,049 100 200,764 100
... not applicable
Note 1

Includes no threat, physical force or weapon.

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Note 2

Includes threats that are construed to imply that death or injury is possible.

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Note 3

Includes other piercing or cutting instruments, such as hatchets, razor blades and arrows.

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Note 4

Includes other types of weapons such as explosives, fire, motor vehicles, poison and weapons not otherwise classified.

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Note 5

Includes incidents that did not involve the use of a weapon or physical force as well as those in which a weapon or physical force was used but no visible physical injury was noted by police.

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Note 6

Refers to injuries that required no professional medical treatment or only some first aid (e.g., bandage, ice).

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Note 7

Refers to injuries that required professional medical attention at the scene or transportation to a medical facility, or injuries that resulted in death.

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Note: The weapon present in an incident (if any) may or may not have caused the injury to the victim (if any). Intimate partner violence refers to violence committed by current and former legally married spouses, common-law partners, dating partners and other intimate partners. Victims refer to those aged 15 to 89 years. Victims aged 90 years and older are excluded from analyses due to possible instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category. Excludes victims where the gender or the age was unknown or where the accused-victim relationship was unknown. Excludes data from the province of Quebec due to data quality concerns. Percentages have been calculated excluding unknown type of weapon present and unknown level of injury. Percentages may not total 100% due to rounding.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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