Table 6
Victims of spousal violence in the past five years, by gender of victim and incident characteristic, Canada, 2019


Table 6
Victims of spousal violence in the past five years, by gender of victim and incident characteristic, Canada, 2019
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of spousal violence in the past five years. The information is grouped by Incident characteristic (appearing as row headers), Women, Men, Total, percent and 95% confidence interval, calculated using from and to units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Incident characteristic WomenTable 6 Note † Men TotalTable 6 Note 1
percent 95% confidence interval percent 95% confidence interval percent 95% confidence interval
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Type of violenceTable 6 Note 2
Sexual assaultTable 6 Note 3 16.9 11.7 23.9 7.4Note * 3.2 16.3 13.1 9.3 18.1
Threatening to use or using a gun or knife 4.9 2.7 8.6 12.1 6.3 22.1 7.7 4.8 12.0
Choking 14.1 9.7 20.1 3.4Note * 1.2 9.2 9.8 7.0 13.7
Beating 12.4 7.4 20.0 10.0 5.2 18.4 11.4 7.6 16.7
Hitting with something that could hurt 17.9 12.6 25.0 26.2 18.7 35.4 21.0 16.4 26.6
Kicking, biting, hitting 17.7 12.2 25.0 42.8Note * 33.4 52.9 27.4 22.0 33.5
Slapping 17.2 12.4 23.5 36.9Note * 28.2 46.6 24.8 20.0 30.2
Pushing, grabbing, shoving 72.2 63.0 79.8 52.2Note * 42.8 61.4 63.9 57.4 70.0
Throwing something that could hurt 38.5 30.3 47.4 59.6Note * 49.4 69.0 46.5 40.0 53.1
Threatening to hit with fist 51.4 42.3 60.4 55.8 46.1 65.1 53.4 46.5 60.3
Most severe type of violenceTable 6 Note 4
Beating, choking, threatening to use or using a gun or knife, sexual assault 32.4 24.7 41.1 21.2 13.6 31.4 27.8 22.2 34.3
Kicking, biting, hitting, hitting with something that could hurt 10.3 6.5 16.1 31.5Note * 23.0 41.5 18.5 14.0 24.0
Pushing, grabbing, shoving, slapping 39.8 30.7 49.7 29.1 21.1 38.6 35.4 29.0 42.4
Threatening to hit with fist, throwing something that could hurt 17.5 11.4 26.0 18.1 11.5 27.3 18.3 13.5 24.3
Number of incidents
One incident 34.4 27.1 42.6 44.0 34.5 53.9 38.6 32.6 44.9
Two incidents 13.9 8.0 23.2 12.9 7.4 21.4 13.4 8.8 20.0
Three to ten incidents 28.4 21.2 36.8 28.3 20.2 38.1 28.1 22.6 34.5
More than ten incidents 20.7 13.3 30.8 12.6 7.4 20.5 17.4 12.2 24.2
Note *

significantly different from reference category (p < 0.05)

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Note †

reference category

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Note 1

In addition to women and men, includes a small number of respondents who identified as gender diverse or did not state their gender.

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Note 2

Respondents could select as many types of violence that applied in their situation.

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Note 3

Includes being forced into unwanted sexual activity and being forced into sexual activity where unable to consent.

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Note 4

Most severe type of violence is calculated differently in this table compared with Table 7; here, it is based on victims of spousal violence, not the population of interest as a whole.

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Note: Spousal violence includes physical and sexual violence. Includes those who are legally married or living common law, and those who are separated or divorced from a legal marriage or common-law union and have had contact with their former partner in the past five years. Spousal relationships include same-gender relationships. Missing responses are included in percent calculations. Confidence intervals should be interpreted as follows: if the survey were repeated many times, then 95% of the time (or 19 times out of 20), the confidence interval would cover the true population value.
Source: Statistics Canada, General Social Survey on Canadians' Safety (Victimization).
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