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Table 6
Physical and sexual assault committed by intimate partners and non-intimate partners since age 15, by sexual orientation and province and territory, 2018

Table 6
Physical and sexual assault committed by intimate partners and non-intimate partners since age 15, by sexual orientation and province and territory, 2018
Table summary
This table displays the results of Physical and sexual assault committed by intimate partners and non-intimate partners since age 15. The information is grouped by Region, province or territory (appearing as row headers), Physical and sexual assault committed by intimate partners, Physical and sexual assault committed by non-intimate partners, Total physical and sexual assault , Sexual minority women, Heterosexual women, percent and 95% confidence interval, calculated using from and to units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Region, province or territory	Physical and sexual assault committed by intimate partners^{Table 6 Note 1}						Physical and sexual assault committed by non-intimate partners						Total physical and sexual assault
	Sexual minority women			Heterosexual women^{Table 6 Note †}			Sexual minority women			Heterosexual women^{Table 6 Note †}			Sexual minority women			Heterosexual women^{Table 6 Note †}
	percent	95% confidence interval		percent	95% confidence interval		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	percent	from	to	percent	from	to
Atlantic^{Table 6 Note 2}	57.4^Note *	46.6	67.6	27.3	25.6	29.0	63.2^Note *	52.6	72.7	38.0	36.2	39.8	69.0^Note *	58.4	77.9	45.2	43.3	47.1
Quebec	56.9^Note *	43.6	69.3	20.7	19.1	22.4	51.5^Note *	38.4	64.3	31.5	29.6	33.4	61.3^Note *	47.0	73.8	38.5	36.5	40.5
Ontario	43.8^Note *	31.9	56.5	24.0	22.2	25.8	59.0^Note *	46.1	70.8	38.6	36.5	40.7	66.3^Note *	52.7	77.7	44.9	42.8	47.0
Manitoba	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	28.3	25.7	31.2	58.4^Note *	41.8	73.2	40.9	38.1	43.7	61.7	44.7	76.2	46.8	43.9	49.7
Saskatchewan	57.6^Note *	40.4	73.1	29.0	26.8	31.2	65.7^Note *	48.1	79.8	37.6	35.4	40.0	70.8^Note *	52.6	84.2	45.6	43.2	48.0
Alberta	45.4^Note *	31.8	59.6	29.8	27.3	32.3	71.3^Note *	58.0	81.7	43.4	40.8	46.1	75.1^Note *	61.5	85.1	49.9	47.2	52.6
British Columbia	48.0^Note *	35.3	61.1	29.3	27.0	31.6	62.4^Note *	49.0	74.1	44.0	41.7	46.4	63.3^Note *	49.9	75.0	50.0	47.6	52.5
Territories^{Table 6 Note 3}	64.4^Note *	48.9	77.4	42.2	38.9	45.5	70.3^Note *	55.2	81.9	52.0	48.4	55.7	79.0^Note *	65.5	88.2	61.2	57.7	64.7
Canada	48.5^Note *	42.1	55.1	25.1	24.2	26.1	60.5^Note *	54.3	66.3	38.3	37.2	39.3	66.3^Note *	59.9	72.2	44.8	43.8	45.9
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. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Includes Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Includes Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Return to note 3 referrer Note: Province or territory refers to the respondent’s province or territory of residence at the time of the survey, and does not necessarily correspond to where the victimization occurred. Source: Statistics Canada, Survey of Safety in Public and Private Spaces.

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Date modified:: 2021-04-26