Table 4
Elapsed time between cohort contact and first re-contact with police, by rural or urban area, provinces, 2014 to 2023

Table 4 Elapsed time between cohort contact and first re-contact with police, by rural or urban area, provinces, 2014 to 2023
Table summary
The information is grouped by Number of days between cohort police contact and first re-contact (appearing as row headers), Rural1, Urban1 and Total, calculated using number, percent, number, percent, number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Number of days between cohort police contact and first re-contact Table 4 Note 2 Rural Table 4 Note 1 Urban Table 4 Note 1 Total
number percent number percent number percent
Note 1

Geographical region is based on the residential address of the accused at the time of the cohort (i.e., initial) contact in 2014. When address information for the accused person was missing or unknown, the address of the responding police service was used. It is possible that an accused person may have lived in both rural and urban areas over the nine-year follow-up period.

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Note 2

Based on elapsed time between the incident dates for the initial contact and the first re-contact with police. Whenever possible, the first known date of the incident is used.

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Note: Reflects unique people. Urban areas are inside a census metropolitan area (CMA) or census agglomeration (CA) and rural areas are outside of CMAs and CAs. A CMA or a CA is comprised of one or more adjacent municipalities centred on a population centre (known as the core). A CMA must have a total population of at least 100,000, of which 50,000 or more must live in the core. A CA must have a core population of at least 10,000. To be included in the CMA or CA, adjacent municipalities must have a high degree of integration with the core, as measured by commuting flows derived from census data. A CMA or CA may have more than one police service. Excludes data from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s Canadian Police Centre for Missing and Exploited Children, and the Canadian Forces Military Police Group. Accused persons may have had additional contacts with police in other years, or may have come into contact with police for another reason (e.g., as a victim of crime, or related to an incident for which they were not formally identified as an accused person). The initial contact with police in 2014 must have been in the provinces, but any re-contact was not limited to the provinces. Excludes those who did not have re-contact with police during the reference period. Percentages may not total 100% due to rounding.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
Within 7 days 4,408 6 12,477 7 16,885 6
Between 8 and 30 days 7,207 10 20,450 11 27,657 11
Between 31 and 90 days 11,623 16 30,645 16 42,268 16
Between 91 and 180 days 9,801 14 25,031 13 34,832 13
Between 180 and 365 days 11,230 16 27,485 15 38,715 15
More than one year 27,929 39 72,856 39 100,785 39
More than one year but less than three years 16,343 23 41,797 22 58,140 22
Three to five years 6,240 9 16,308 9 22,548 9
More than five years 5,346 7 14,751 8 20,097 8
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