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Table 2
Intimate partner violence, since age 15 and in the past 12 months, Canada, 2018

Table 2
Intimate partner violence, since age 15 and in the past 12 months, Canada, 2018
Table summary
This table displays the results of Intimate partner violence. The information is grouped by Intimate partner violence (appearing as row headers), Women, Men, number (000s), percent and 95% confidence interval, calculated using from and to units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Intimate partner violence^{Table 2 Note 1}	Women^{Table 2 Note †}				Men
	number (000s)	percent	95% confidence interval		number (000s)	percent	95% confidence interval
	number (000s)	percent	from	to	number (000s)	percent	from	to
Since age 15
Emotional, financial, or psychological	6,043	42.7	41.6	43.7	4,705	34.9^Note *	33.8	35.9
Physical	3,250	23.0	22.1	23.8	2,232	16.5^Note *	15.8	17.4
Sexual	1,630	11.5	10.9	12.2	268	2.0^Note *	1.7	2.3
Total, physical or sexual	3,636	25.7	24.8	26.6	2,295	17.0^Note *	16.2	17.8
Total, any type	6,242	44.1	43.1	45.1	4,874	36.1^Note *	35.1	37.1
Past 12 months
Emotional, financial, or psychological	1,453	11.9	11.1	12.8	1,434	11.2	10.4	12.0
Physical	295	2.4	2.1	2.8	356	2.8	2.4	3.3
Sexual	141	1.2	0.9	1.5	57	0.4^Note *	0.3	0.7
Total, physical or sexual	378	3.1	2.7	3.6	383	3.0	2.5	3.5
Total, any type	1,477	12.1	11.3	13.0	1,468	11.4	10.6	12.3
Note * significantly different from reference category (p < 0.05) Return to note * referrer Note † reference category Return to note † referrer Note 1 Includes violence committed by a current or former spouse, common-law partner, dating partner, or someone with whom the victim was in another type of intimate relationship. Percent calculation excludes respondents who reported that they have never been in an intimate partner relationship and, for the past 12 months, those who stated that they had not had contact with any current or former intimate partner in the past 12 months. See Table 1A for a list of items included in each category. Return to note 1 referrer Source: Statistics Canada, Survey of Safety in Public and Private Spaces.

Date modified:: 2021-04-26