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Table 4
Admissions to shelters for victims of abuse, by type of shelter and region, 2020/2021

Table 4
Admissions to shelters for victims of abuse, by type of shelter and region, 2020/2021
Table summary
This table displays the results of Admissions to shelters for victims of abuse. The information is grouped by Region (appearing as row headers), Indigenous shelters, Non-Indigenous shelters, Total admissions, Adult females, Adult males, Adults of another gender and Accompanying children, calculated using number units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Region	Indigenous shelters^{Table 4 Note 1}					Non-Indigenous shelters
	Total admissions^{Table 4 Note 2}	Adult females	Adult males	Adults of another gender	Accompanying children^{Table 4 Note 3}	Total admissions^{Table 4 Note 2}	Adult females	Adult males	Adults of another gender	Accompanying children^{Table 4 Note 3}
	number
Atlantic^{Table 4 Note 4}	247	155	0	0	92	2,135	1,509	0	26	600
Quebec	509	318	Note x: suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act	Note x: suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act	189	9,515	5,582	Note x: suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act	Note x: suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act	3,923
Ontario	1,381	936	Note x: suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act	Note x: suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act	442	11,062	6,315	110	84	4,553
Manitoba	973	601	Note x: suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act	Note x: suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act	371	1,225	849	Note x: suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act	Note x: suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act	375
Saskatchewan	627	298	0	0	329	1,549	1,004	0	0	545
Alberta	978	690	Note x: suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act	Note x: suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act	279	5,382	3,011	29	7	2,335
British Columbia	1,691	1,092	0	9	590	4,719	3,133	18	58	1,510
Territories^{Table 4 Note 5}	1,072	781	51	0	240	664	462	0	0	202
Canada	7,478	4,871	59	16	2,532	36,251	21,865	164	179	14,043
0 true zero or a value rounded to zero x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act Note 1 Indigenous shelters for victims of abuse include shelters that are part of an Indigenous organization, are located in an Indigenous community, are located on a reserve, or are owned or operated by a First Nations government (band council). Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 An admission refers to the official acceptance of a resident into the shelter with the allocation of a bed, child’s bed, crib, bedroom or bedroom unit, or apartment. The total number of admissions is based on all admissions for a 12-month reference period and includes those who may have been admitted more than once. Each shelter visit is counted as a separate admission. For example, the same person being admitted to a shelter three times in a year would count as three admissions. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 Accompanying children include adult children (typically aged 18 or older) accompanying a parent or caregiver, such as adult children with disabilities and those who are caretakers of a parent experiencing abuse. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Includes Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 Includes Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Return to note 5 referrer Note: In 2020/2021, the Survey of Residential Facilities for Victims of Abuse was updated to collect resident information for adult females, adult males, adults of another gender, accompanying female children, accompanying male children, and accompanying children of another gender. Adult females include transgender adults identifying as female and adult males include transgender adults identifying as male. Adults and accompanying children of another gender include people whose current gender was not reported exclusively as male or female. Also includes persons who are unsure of their gender, persons who identify as both male and female, or neither male nor female. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Survey of Residential Facilities for Victims of Abuse.

Date modified:: 2022-09-16