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Table 4.4
Known causes of death among spousal and non-spousal relationships by sex, 1997 to 2006
Known causes of death among spousal and non-spousal relationships by sex, 1997 to 2006
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| Spouse1 | Non-spouse2 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Female victims | Male victims | Female victims | Male victims | |||||
| number | percent | number | percent | number | percent | number | percent | |
| Total | 604 | 100 | 146 | 100 | 681 | 100 | 2,565 | 100 |
| Shooting | 179 | 30 | 20 | 14 | 111 | 16 | 703 | 27 |
| Stabbing | 182 | 30 | 101 | 69 | 261 | 38 | 938 | 37 |
| Strangulation3 | 123 | 20 | 6 | 4 | 120 | 18 | 102 | 4 |
| Beating | 97 | 16 | 10 | 7 | 148 | 22 | 714 | 28 |
| Other4 | 23 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 41 | 6 | 108 | 4 |
| 1. Spouse includes legally married, common-law, separated and divorced partners. | ||||||||
| 2. To control for the effects of age in the comparison of spousal and non-spousal homicides, non-spousal victims include only those individuals 15 years of age and older. | ||||||||
| 3. Strangulation includes suffocation and drowning. | ||||||||
| 4. Other includes poisoning or lethal injection, smoke inhalation, burns, exposure/hypothermia, or other. | ||||||||
| Notes: Excludes incidents where the accused-victim relationship was unknown. Excludes those homicides where the cause of death was unknown. Excludes those homicides where the sex of victim was unknown. Percentages may not add up to 100% due to rounding. | ||||||||
| Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Homicide Survey. | ||||||||
