Table 6
Types of online harassment and sexual behaviour experienced by women and relationship to the perpetrator, by relative remoteness of area of residence, Canada, 2018


Table 6
Types of online harassment and sexual behaviour experienced by women and relationship to the perpetrator, by relative remoteness of area of residence, Canada, 2018
Table summary
This table displays the results of Types of online harassment and sexual behaviour experienced by women and relationship to the perpetrator. The information is grouped by Types of online harassment and unwanted sexual behaviour (appearing as row headers), Remote area, Less accessible area, Accessible area, percent and 95% confidence interval, calculated using from and to units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Types of online harassment and unwanted sexual behaviour Remote area Less accessible area Accessible areaTable 6 Note †
percent 95% confidence interval percent 95% confidence interval percent 95% confidence interval
from to from to from to
Used the Internet in the previous year
Yes 87Note * 84.3 89.1 88 86.6 89.5 90 89.1 90.3
No 13Note * 10.7 15.5 12Note * 10.3 13.2 10 9.4 10.5
Total harassing behaviour onlineTable 6 Note 1
Yes 11 8.3 14.4 11 8.7 12.9 12 10.7 12.5
No 89 85.5 91.6 89 87.0 91.2 88 87.3 89.2
Received threatening messages where they were only the recipientTable 6 Note 1
Yes 9 6.2 11.7 9 7.4 11.3 10 9.5 11.3
No 91 88.2 93.8 91 88.5 92.4 89 88.6 90.4
Received threatening messages through a post to a groupTable 6 Note 1
Yes 6 4.0 8.3 5 3.4 6.9 4 3.7 5.1
No 94 91.7 96.0 95 93.0 96.4 96 94.8 96.1
Total inappropriate sexual behaviour onlineTable 6 Note 1
Yes 12 9.1 16.5 10 8.4 12.3 12 11.1 13.0
No 88 83.4 90.8 90 87.5 91.5 88 86.9 88.8
Someone posted or threatened to post intimate images of themTable 6 Note 1
Yes 2 0.8 3.6 1 0.8 2.5 2 1.2 2.1
No 98 96.4 99.2 98 97.3 99.1 98 97.7 98.7
Pressured to share intimate imagesTable 6 Note 1
Yes 3 2.0 5.3 2Note * 1.7 3.4 4 3.3 4.4
No 97 94.7 98.0 97Note * 96.4 98.2 96 95.4 96.5
Received sexually explicit media when they didn't want toTable 6 Note 1
Yes 11 8.1 15.2 9 7.5 11.2 11 9.8 11.5
No 89 84.7 91.8 91 88.6 92.4 89 88.3 90.1
Total harassing or inappropriate sexual behaviour onlineTable 6 Note 1
Yes 18 14.6 22.3 16Note * 13.7 18.2 19 17.5 19.7
No 82 77.6 85.3 84Note * 81.6 86.2 81 80.1 82.3
Blocked people because of harassmentTable 6 Note 1
Yes 19 14.9 22.7 15 13.0 17.2 17 16.2 18.3
No 81 77.0 84.8 85Note * 82.5 86.8 82 81.3 83.4
Restricted own access for protectionTable 6 Note 1
Yes 14Note * 11.2 17.5 15 13.4 17.6 18 16.7 18.6
No 85Note * 81.9 88.3 83 81.1 85.5 81 80.1 82.1
Deleted accounts because of harassmentTable 6 Note 1
Yes 4 2.1 6.4 4 2.9 5.5 4 3.5 4.4
No 96 92.9 97.4 95 93.9 96.6 95 94.9 96.0
Relationship to the perpetratorTable 6 Note 1 Table 6 Note 2
Family member 9 5.8 14.9 7 4.5 9.4 7 6.1 8.7
Friend or acquaintance 10 6.2 16.4 16 11.7 21.6 14 12.0 15.6
Co-worker or classmate 1 0.4 4.0 2 1.4 4.3 3 1.9 4.3
Stranger 19 12.1 28.7 14Note * 10.8 17.6 19 17.2 21.6
Other Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published
Don't know Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published Note F: too unreliable to be published 1 0.5 2.1 1 0.9 2.0
F too unreliable to be published
Note *

significantly different from reference category (†) (p < 0.05)

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Note †

reference category

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Note 1

Percent calculations reflect the proportion of respondents who indicated that they had used the Internet in the previous year.

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Note 2

Percent calculations reflect the proportion of respondents who experienced unwanted sexual behaviours or harassment online in the previous year.

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Note: Includes women aged 15 and older. 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, Survey of Safety in Public and Private Spaces and Remoteness Index.
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