Table 5
Police-reported intimate partner and non-intimate partner violence, by relative remoteness of area of residence, gender, and province, Canada, 2019


Table 5
Police-reported intimate partner and non-intimate partner violence, by relative remoteness of area of residence, gender, and province, Canada, 2019
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported intimate partner and non-intimate partner violence. The information is grouped by Province (appearing as row headers), Remote area, Less accessible area, Accessible area, Women and Men, calculated using rate per 100,000 population units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Province Remote area Less accessible area Accessible area
Women Men Women Men Women Men
rate per 100,000 population
Intimate partner violence
Newfoundland and Labrador 816 240 492 185 395 121
Prince Edward Island 385 0 437 120 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable
Nova Scotia 681 210 521 136 515 170
New BrunswickTable 5 Note 1 863 214 757 248 615 192
Quebec 583 191 707 227 473 151
Ontario 2,107 702 792 236 373 91
Manitoba 4,571 1,262 1,791 424 556 111
Saskatchewan 4,017 863 1,075 310 582 126
Alberta 1,978 526 907 230 589 164
British Columbia 1,122 364 716 230 433 121
Provincial total 1,705 479 765 229 445 122
Non-intimate partner violence
Newfoundland and Labrador 1,074 1,252 678 893 588 824
Prince Edward Island 474 734 578 807 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable
Nova Scotia 780 1,149 579 725 634 889
New BrunswickTable 5 Note 1 939 1,255 925 1,226 906 1,058
Quebec 703 1,122 810 1,187 540 796
Ontario 2,278 2,370 951 1,135 497 701
Manitoba 5,713 6,323 2,333 2,591 862 1,287
Saskatchewan 3,906 4,262 1,196 1,538 715 1,031
Alberta 1,916 1,901 925 1,176 720 1,032
British Columbia 1,187 1,438 869 1,275 627 1,053
Provincial total 1,889 2,170 891 1,192 574 843
0 true zero or a value rounded to zero
... not applicable
Note 1

Excludes data from the Saint John Police Service due to data quality concerns.

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Note: Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population aged 15 to 110 years. Victims aged 111 and older are excluded from analyses due to possible instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category. Populations based on July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography. Intimate partner violence refers to violence committed by current and former legally married spouses, common-law partners, dating partners and other intimate partners. Excludes victims where the gender or the age was unknown or where the accused-victim relationship was unknown. Records where the victim and accused were originally coded as boyfriend/girlfriend or ex-boyfriend/ex-girlfriend who lived together have been recoded to spouses/ex-spouses. Records where the victim was under age 18 and the accused was originally coded as the victim's child, and records where the victim was over age 65 and the accused was originally coded has the victim's parent have been recoded to other family. Remote areas include remote and very remote areas, and accessible areas include accessible and easily accessible areas, as defined by the manual classification approach to the Remoteness Index.
Source: Statistics Canada, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey and Remoteness Index.
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