Table 5
Reported income among victims of homicide who filed taxes in the three years prior to the homicide, by gender-related status, Canada, 2010 to 2022

Table 5
Reported income among victims of homicide who filed taxes in the three years prior to the homicide, by gender-related status, Canada, 2010 to 2022 Table summary
The information is grouped by Reported income (appearing as row headers), Gender-related homicides of women and girls1, Non-gender-related homicides of women and girls, Homicide of men and boys and Total, calculated using number, percent, number, percent, number, percent, number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Reported income Gender-related homicides of women and girls Table 5 Note 1 Non-gender-related homicides of women and girls Homicide of men and boys Total
number percent number percent number percent number percent
Note 1

Gender-related homicides of women and girls are solved homicides committed by a man or boy who was an intimate partner or family member of the victim, inflicted sexual violence on the victim as part of the killing or killed a victim who was identified as a sex worker. Non-gender-related homicides of women and girls are all those that do not contain the above qualifiers but involve a woman or girl as the victim and have a known accused. The homicide of men and boys exclude unsolved incidents.

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Note 2

Identifies low-income individuals and families according to the Census Family after-tax Low-Income Measure.

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Note 3

Includes individual social assistance, employment insurance, and other government transfers.

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Note 4

Employment income includes wages and salaries, commissions (including training allowances, tips and gratuities) and self-employment income (net income from business, profession, farming, fishing and commissions).

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Note: Socioeconomic data are derived from the T1 Family File (Canada Revenue Agency) and are based on linked tax data reported by individuals to Revenue Canada up to three years prior to their homicide. Information is available for tax years 2009 to 2022; the income associated with the most recent tax year prior to the homicide is selected for analysis. In this study, 70% of homicide victims had a record in the T1 Family File that was available for analysis. There may be a small number of homicides included in a given year's total that occurred in previous years. Homicides are counted according to the year in which they are reported to Statistics Canada. Excludes victims where gender was coded as unknown and homicides that were reported in 2009.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Gender-related homicide record linkage file and T1 Family File.
Low income measure Table 5 Note 2  
Family is low income 422 40.8 207 49.3 1,370 49.5 1,999 47.3
Family is not low income 613 59.2 213 50.7 1,400 50.5 2,226 52.7
Total 1,035 100.0 420 100.0 2,770 100.0 4,225 100.0
Individual received government transfer Table 5 Note 3  
Yes 892 86.2 370 88.1 2,393 86.4 3,655 86.5
No 143 13.8 50 11.9 377 13.6 570 13.5
Total 1,035 100.0 420 100.0 2,770 100.0 4,225 100.0
Income from social assistance  
Yes 174 16.8 118 28.1 800 28.9 1,092 25.8
No 861 83.2 302 71.9 1,970 71.1 3,133 74.2
Total 1,035 100.0 420 100.0 2,770 100.0 4,225 100.0
Employment income Table 5 Note 4  
Yes 579 55.9 160 38.1 1,478 53.4 2,217 52.5
No 456 44.1 260 61.9 1,292 46.6 2,008 47.5
Total 1,035 100.0 420 100.0 2,770 100.0 4,225 100.0
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