Table 8
Senior and non-senior victims of police-reported violence, by type of weapon present, level of injury and victim gender, Canada, 2020


Table 8
Senior and non-senior victims of police-reported violence, by type of weapon present, level of injury and victim gender, Canada, 2020
Table summary
This table displays the results of Senior and non-senior victims of police-reported violence. The information is grouped by Type of weapon present and level of injury (appearing as row headers), Seniors, Non-seniors, Female victims, Male victims and Total victims, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of weapon present and level of injury Seniors Non-seniors
Female victims Male victims Total victimsTable 8 Note 1 Female victims Male victims Total victimsTable 8 Note 1
number percent number percent number percent number percent number percent number percent
Type of weapon present
No weaponTable 8 Note 2 659 11 617 8 1,276 9 23,803 13 10,870 7 34,723 10
ThreatsTable 8 Note 3 717 11 1,002 13 1,720 12 17,168 9 17,608 11 34,820 10
Physical force 4,068 65 4,447 57 8,524 60 117,659 63 83,290 51 201,299 57
Weapon 825 13 1,801 23 2,629 19 29,199 16 50,101 31 79,420 23
Firearm 65 1 174 2 241 2 3,201 2 6,499 4 9,712 3
Knife, or other piercing or cutting instrumentTable 8 Note 4 177 3 477 6 654 5 7,637 4 16,432 10 24,098 7
Club or other blunt instrument 128 2 361 5 489 3 3,394 2 7,138 4 10,539 3
OtherTable 8 Note 5 455 7 789 10 1,245 9 14,967 8 20,032 12 35,071 10
Unknown 491 Note ...: not applicable 618 Note ...: not applicable 1,111 Note ...: not applicable 16,378 Note ...: not applicable 12,606 Note ...: not applicable 29,051 Note ...: not applicable
Total 6,760 100 8,485 100 15,260 100 204,207 100 174,475 100 379,313 100
Level of injury
No physical injuryTable 8 Note 6 4,399 68 5,063 63 9,468 65 117,947 62 96,490 59 214,782 60
Physical injury 2,053 32 3,019 37 5,075 35 72,060 38 68,402 41 140,630 40
Minor physical injuryTable 8 Note 7 1,940 30 2,795 35 4,738 33 69,411 37 62,151 38 131,725 37
Major physical injury or deathTable 8 Note 8 113 2 224 3 337 2 2,649 1 6,251 4 8,905 3
Unknown 308 Note ...: not applicable 403 Note ...: not applicable 717 Note ...: not applicable 14,200 Note ...: not applicable 9,583 Note ...: not applicable 23,901 Note ...: not applicable
Total 6,760 100 8,485 100 15,260 100 204,207 100 174,475 100 379,313 100
... not applicable
Note 1

Includes a relatively small number of victims whose gender was coded as unknown.

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Note 2

Includes no threat, physical force or weapon.

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Note 3

Includes threats that are construed to imply that death or injury is possible.

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Note 4

Includes other piercing or cutting instruments, such as hatchets, razor blades and arrows.

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Note 5

Includes other types of weapons such as explosives, fire, motor vehicles, rope, poison and weapons not otherwise classified.

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Note 6

Includes incidents that did not involve the use of a weapon or physical force as well as those in which a weapon or physical force was used but no visible physical injury was noted by police.

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Note 7

Refers to injuries that required no professional medical treatment or only some first aid (e.g., bandage, ice).

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Note 8

Refers to injuries that required professional medical attention at the scene or transportation to a medical facility, or injuries that resulted in death.

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Note: Seniors include those aged 65 and older while non-seniors include those aged 64 and younger. Excludes victims where age was coded as unknown and those where age was greater than 110 are excluded from analyses due to possible instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category. Excludes a small number of victims in Quebec whose age was unknown but was miscoded as 0. For type of weapon present and level of injury, percent calculations exclude unknown type of weapon present and unknown level of injury, respectively. Percentages may not total 100% due to rounding.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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