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Canadians from low income households experience higher rates of violent victimization

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Chart 1 Canadians from low income households experience higher rates of violent victimization

1. Rates calculated per 1,000 population aged 15 and over.
2. Only comparison between the lowest household income group and the other household income groups are statistically significant.
Note: Violent victimization includes physical assault, sexual assault (including incidents of spousal physical and sexual assault) and robbery.
Source: Statistics Canada, General Social Survey, 2004.
Chart source: Statistics Canada, 2009, "Household income and victimization in Canada, 2004", Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics Profile Series, No. 20, catalogue number 85F0033M.

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