Table 4.3
Senior victims of police-reported family and non-family violence, by gender of victim, type of weapon present and level of injury, Canada, 2019


Table 4.3
Senior victims of police-reported family and non-family violence, by gender of victim, type of weapon present and level of injury, 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 Type of weapon present and level of injury (appearing as row headers), Family violence, Non-family 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 Family violence Non-family 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 4.3 Note 1 134 7 91 7 225 7 266 9 250 6 516 7
ThreatsTable 4.3 Note 2 188 10 151 11 339 10 231 8 511 12 742 10
Physical force 1,303 69 870 64 2,173 67 2,163 71 2,664 62 4,827 66
Weapon 276 15 250 18 526 16 373 12 895 21 1,268 17
Firearm 14 1 14 1 28 1 43 1 98 2 141 2
Knife or other piercing instrumentTable 4.3 Note 3 71 4 84 6 155 5 78 3 256 6 334 5
Club or other blunt instrument 34 2 33 2 67 2 44 1 131 3 175 2
Other weaponTable 4.3 Note 4 157 8 119 9 276 8 208 7 410 9 618 8
Unknown 48 Note ...: not applicable 29 Note ...: not applicable 77 Note ...: not applicable 53 Note ...: not applicable 103 Note ...: not applicable 156 Note ...: not applicable
Total 1,949 100 1,391 100 3,340 100 3,086 100 4,423 100 7,509 100
Level of injury
No physical injuryTable 4.3 Note 5 1,096 60 772 58 1,868 59 2,049 69 2,530 60 4,579 64
Physical injury 740 40 555 42 1,295 41 900 31 1,685 40 2,585 36
Minor physical injuryTable 4.3 Note 6 683 37 522 39 1,205 38 856 29 1,550 37 2,406 34
Major physical injury or deathTable 4.3 Note 7 57 3 33 2 90 3 44 1 135 3 179 2
Unknown 113 Note ...: not applicable 64 Note ...: not applicable 177 Note ...: not applicable 137 Note ...: not applicable 208 Note ...: not applicable 345 Note ...: not applicable
Total 1,949 100 1,391 100 3,340 100 3,086 100 4,423 100 7,509 100
... 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). 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 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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