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Table 4.1
Senior victims of police-reported family and non-family violence, by gender of victim and relationship of accused to victim, Canada, 2019

Table 4.1
Senior victims of police-reported family and non-family violence, by gender of victim and relationship of accused to victim, Canada, 2019
Table summary
This table displays the results of Senior victims of police-reported family and non-family violence. The information is grouped by Relationship of accused to victim (appearing as row headers), Female victims, Male victims and Total victims, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Relationship of accused to victim	Female victims		Male victims		Total victims
Relationship of accused to victim	number	percent	number	percent	number	percent
Family	2,613	41	1,905	25	4,518	32
Spouse^{Table 4.1 Note 1}	806	13	365	5	1,171	8
Child^{Table 4.1 Note 2}	826	13	688	9	1,514	11
Sibling^{Table 4.1 Note 3}	290	5	239	3	529	4
Other family^{Table 4.1 Note 4}	691	11	613	8	1,304	9
Non-family	3,810	59	5,811	75	9,621	68
Dating or other intimate partner^{Table 4.1 Note 5}	208	3	192	2	400	3
Friend^{Table 4.1 Note 6}	282	4	413	5	695	5
Casual acquaintance^{Table 4.1 Note 7}	1,783	28	2,245	29	4,028	28
Authority figure^{Table 4.1 Note 8}	159	2	138	2	297	2
Stranger	1,184	18	2,350	30	3,534	25
Other^{Table 4.1 Note 9}	194	3	473	6	667	5
Unknown	4	Note ...: not applicable	13	Note ...: not applicable	17	Note ...: not applicable
Total victims	6,427	100	7,729	100	14,156	100
... not applicable Note 1 Includes current and former legally married spouses and common-law partners. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Includes biological, step, adopted and foster children. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Includes biological, step, half, adopted and foster brothers and sisters. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Includes all other family members related by blood, marriage (including common-law) or adoption. Examples include grandchildren, nephews, nieces, cousins and in-laws. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 Includes current and former boyfriends and girlfriends (intimate relationships) and other intimate partners (sexual relationships or a mutual sexual attraction). Return to note 5 referrer Note 6 Includes roommates. "Roommates" was added as a relationship category in 2013. Return to note 6 referrer Note 7 Includes neighbours. Return to note 7 referrer Note 8 Includes persons in a position of trust or authority. Includes authority figures and reverse authority figures (e.g., student-to-teacher and patient-to-doctor). "Reverse authority figures" was added as a relationship category in 2013. Return to note 8 referrer Note 9 Includes business relationships and criminal relationships (relationships based on illegal activities, such as drugs or prostitution). Return to note 9 referrer Note: Family violence refers to violence committed by spouses (legally married, separated, divorced and common-law), children (biological, step, adopted and foster), siblings (biological, step, half, adopted and foster) and extended family members (e.g., grandchildren, nephews, nieces, cousins and in-laws). Victims refer to those aged 65 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. Percentages have been calculated excluding unknown relationships. 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.

Date modified:: 2021-03-02