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


Table 5
Physical and sexual assault committed by intimate partners and non-intimate partners in the past 12 months, 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), Visible minority women, Non-visible minority 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 Visible minority women Non-visible minority women
percent 95% confidence interval percent 95% confidence interval
from to from to
Intimate partner violence in the past 12 monthsTable 5 Note 1
Physical assault 2.5 1.6 3.7 2.4 2.0 2.9
Sexual assault 1.3 0.7 2.2 1.1 0.8 1.5
Total 3.1 2.2 4.4 3.1 2.6 3.7
Non-intimate partner violence in the past 12 months
Physical assault 1.5 0.9 2.4 2.2 1.8 2.7
Sexual assault 2.6 1.7 4.0 3.0 2.6 3.6
Total 3.7 2.7 5.3 4.6 4.0 5.2
Total violence in the past 12 months
Physical assault 3.2 2.3 4.4 3.7 3.2 4.2
Sexual assault 3.2 2.2 4.7 3.6 3.1 4.2
Total 5.5 4.2 7.1 6.4 5.8 7.1
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.

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Note: None of the differences between visible minority women and non-visible minority women are statistically significant (p < 0.05).
Source: Statistics Canada, Survey of Safety in Public and Private Spaces.
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