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Table 3.4
Method of violence causing most serious injury to the victim in family violence against older adults (aged 65 years and over), reported to a subset of police services, 2006
Method of violence causing most serious injury to the victim in family violence against older adults (aged 65 years and over), reported to a subset of police services, 2006
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| Method of violence | Total | Female | Male | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| number | percent | rate | number | percent | rate | number | percent | rate | |
| Total | 784 | 100 | 19 | 481 | 100 | 21 | 303 | 100 | 17 |
| Unknown1 | 47 | 6 | 1 | 29 | 6 | 1 | 18 | 6 | 1 |
| Physical force | 610 | 78 | 15 | 388 | 81 | 17 | 222 | 73 | 13 |
| Weapon | 127 | 16 | 3 | 64 | 13 | 3 | 63 | 21 | 4 |
| Knife/other piercing instrument | 43 | 5 | 1 | 20 | 4 | 1 | 23 | 8 | 1 |
| Club/blunt instrument | 20 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 1 |
| Other weapon2 | 64 | 8 | 2 | 35 | 7 | 1 | 29 | 10 | 2 |
| 0 true zero or a value rounded to zero | |||||||||
| 1. The weapon used in this incident was not known. | |||||||||
| 2. Other weapon includes explosives, fire, motor vehicle or any device used to poison. | |||||||||
| Notes: Percentages may not add up to 100% due to rounding. Excludes incidents where the sex and/or age of the victim was unknown. Excludes incidents where no injuries were reported. 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. Rate per 100,000 population for the geographic areas policed by the UCR2 respondents, based on populations provided by Demography Division, Statistics Canada. | |||||||||
| Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR2) Survey. | |||||||||
