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Table 5A
Physical and sexual assault committed by intimate partners and non-intimate partners in the past 12 months, by Indigenous identity, Canada, 2018

Table 5a
Physical and sexual assault committed by intimate partners and non-intimate partners in the past 12 months, by Indigenous identity, Canada, 2018
Table summary
This table displays the results of Physical and sexual assault committed by intimate partners and non-intimate partners in the past 12 months. The information is grouped by Type of victimization by perpetrator in past 12 months (appearing as row headers), Indigenous Women, Non-Indigenous Women, percent and 95% confidence interval, calculated using from and to units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of victimization by perpetrator in past 12 months	Indigenous women			Non-Indigenous women^{Table 5a Note †}
	percent	95% confidence interval		percent	95% confidence interval
	percent	from	to	percent	from	to
Intimate partner violence in the past 12 months^{Table 5a Note 1}
Physical assault	3.6	2.1	6.0	2.4	2.0	2.8
Sexual assault	2.4	1.2	4.8	1.1	0.9	1.4
Total	4.9	3.0	7.8	3.0	2.6	3.6
Non-intimate partner violence in the past 12 months
Physical assault	4.3^Note *	2.5	7.1	2.0	1.6	2.4
Sexual assault	4.1	2.5	6.7	2.9	2.5	3.4
Total	6.6	4.5	9.7	4.3	3.8	4.9
Total intimate partner and non-intimate partner violence in the past 12 months
Physical assault	6.2^Note *	4.2	9.1	3.5	3.1	4.0
Sexual assault	5.0	3.3	7.7	3.5	3.1	4.1
Total	8.7	6.3	11.8	6.1	5.5	6.8
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 those who stated that they had not had contact with any current or former intimate partner in the past 12 months. Return to note 1 referrer Source: Statistics Canada, Survey of Safety in Public and Private Spaces.

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Date modified:: 2021-05-19