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

Table 2
Intimate partner violence since age 15 and in the past 12 months, by sexual orientation, Canada, 2018
Table summary
This table displays the results of Intimate partner violence since age 15 and in the past 12 months. The information is grouped by Intimate partner violence (appearing as row headers), Sexual minority women, Lesbian or gay women, Bisexual women, Heterosexual women, percent and 95% confidence interval, calculated using from and to units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Intimate partner violence^{Table 2 Note 1}	Sexual minority women			Lesbian or gay women			Bisexual women			Heterosexual women^{Table 2 Note †}
	percent	95% confidence interval		percent	95% confidence interval		percent	95% confidence interval		percent	95% confidence interval
	percent	from	to	percent	from	to	percent	from	to	percent	from	to
Since age 15
Emotional, financial, or psychological	65.1^Note *	58.1	71.5	58.4^Note *	49.3	67.0	67.1^Note *	56.8	76.0	42.4	41.3	43.4
Physical	43.9^Note *	37.7	50.4	34.5^Note *	26.2	43.9	47.8^Note *	39.2	56.6	22.5	21.6	23.4
Sexual	26.5^Note *	21.7	32.0	12.5	8.3	18.4	33.9^Note *	26.7	42.0	11.0	10.4	11.7
Total, physical or sexual	48.5^Note *	42.1	55.1	36.9^Note *	28.5	46.1	53.3^Note *	44.0	62.3	25.1	24.2	26.1
Total, any type	66.8^Note *	59.9	73.1	61.1^Note *	52.2	69.4	68.4^Note *	58.1	77.3	43.8	42.7	44.8
Past 12 months
Emotional, financial, or psychological	19.4^Note *	15.0	24.7	13.9	8.2	22.7	20.9^Note *	15.3	27.9	11.7	10.9	12.6
Physical	6.7^Note *	4.2	10.4	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	6.0^Note *	3.4	10.2	2.3	1.9	2.7
Sexual	4.1^Note *	2.4	6.8	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	6.3^Note *	3.7	10.5	1.0	0.8	1.4
Total, physical or sexual	8.6^Note *	5.8	12.6	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	9.0^Note *	5.7	14.0	2.9	2.5	3.4
Total, any type	19.6^Note *	15.1	25.0	13.9	8.2	22.7	21.3^Note *	15.6	28.3	11.9	11.1	12.8
F too unreliable to be published 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 1 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.

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Date modified:: 2021-04-26