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Table 1.6
Victims of spousal violence by province and offence type, reported to a subset of police services, 2006

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  Homicide/
attempts		 Sexual assault1 Major assault (levels 2
and 3)2		 Common assault
(level 1)		 Criminal harassment Uttering threats Other
violent offences3		 Total
violent crime
number % number % number % number % number % number % number % number %
Canada 155 0 633 2 5,555 14 23,680 61 3,053 8 4,283 11 1,214 3 38,573 100
Newfoundland and Labrador 4 1 4 1 44 13 225 64 17 5 47 13 8 2 349 1
Prince Edward Island 1 1 0 0 8 7 84 77 4 4 10 9 2 2 109 0
Nova Scotia 5 1 14 2 65 10 438 67 27 4 87 13 16 2 652 2
New Brunswick 1 0 7 2 53 12 291 63 31 7 67 15 10 2 460 1
Quebec 58 0 294 2 1,935 13 8,183 54 1,854 12 2,441 16 483 3 15,248 40
Ontario 44 0 189 2 1,777 15 7,462 64 886 8 936 8 419 4 11,713 30
Manitoba 6 0 24 2 352 22 1,026 65 14 1 109 7 46 3 1,577 4
Saskatchewan 12 1 32 2 398 19 1,483 70 40 2 133 6 30 1 2,128 6
Alberta 18 0 40 1 679 15 3,141 71 118 3 287 6 164 4 4,447 12
British Columbia 6 0 24 2 167 12 940 68 62 4 155 11 29 2 1,383 4
Yukon 0 0 0 0 11 21 41 77 0 0 1 2 0 0 53 0
Northwest Territories 0 0 2 1 22 12 156 83 0 0 6 3 3 2 189 0
Nunavut 0 0 3 1 44 17 210 79 0 0 4 2 4 2 265 1
0 true zero or a value rounded to zero
1. Sexual assault is classified into either one of three levels according to the seriousness of the incident or as other sexual crimes. Level 1, sexual assault, is the category of least physical injury to the victim; level 2 includes sexual assault with a weapon, threats to use a weapon, or causing bodily harm; and level 3 includes aggravated sexual assault which wounds, maims, disfigures or endangers the life of the victim.
2. Major assault includes assault with a weapon or causing bodily harm (level 2) and aggravated assault, is defined as assault that wounds, maims, disfigures or endangers the life of the victim (level 3).
3. Other violent offences include robbery, unlawfully causing bodily harm, discharge firearm with intent, assault against peace-public officer, criminal negligence causing bodily harm, other assaults, kidnapping, hostage-taking, explosives causing death/bodily harm, arson, and other violent violations.
Notes: Percentages may not add up to 100% due to rounding. Excludes incidents where the sex and/or the age of the victim was unknown. Includes victims aged 15 to 98. Spousal violence refers to violence committed by legally married, common-law, separated and divorced partners. Data are not nationally representative. Based on data from 149 police services representing approximately 90% of the population of Canada in 2006. Hamilton Police Service is excluded from the analysis due to data quality of the relationship variable. Coverage of the UCR2 survey for each jurisdiction in 2006 is 100% for all of the provinces and territories except: Quebec (99.4%), Ontario (98.9%), Alberta (98.7%),Manitoba (96.8%), New Brunswick (90.7%), and British Columbia (33.7%).
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR2) Survey.
Date Modified: 2009-08-21

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