Family violence victims in Canada, by sex and type of offence 2016

This statistic shows the number of victims of police-reported family violence in Canada in 2016, distinguished by sex and type of offence. In 2016, there were 50,223 victims of family-related common assaults in Canada including 16,652 male and 33,571 female victims.

Number of family violence victims in Canada in 2016, by sex and type of offence

Type of offence	Female	Male
Common assault (level 1)	33,571	16,652
Major assault (levels 2 and 3)	6,838	5,868
Sexual offences	6,045	1,120
Uttering threats	5,711	3,432
Criminal harassment	2,775	521
Other violent offences	1,706	465
Indecent or harassing phone calls	650	214
Other assaults	225	152
Robbery	114	61
Violations causing death and attempted murder	86	62
Attempted murder	75	62

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January 2018

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Canada

Survey time period

2016

Supplementary notes

Attempted murder includes conspire to commit murder.

'Sexual offences' includes sexual assault, classified as one of three levels according to the seriousness of the incidents.

'Level 1 common assault' is the least serious form of assault and includes pushing, slapping, punching and face-to-face verbal threats.
'Level 2 major assault' is defined as assault with a weapon or causing bodily harm.
'Level 3 major assault' is defined as assault that wounds, maims, disfigures or endangers the life of the victim.
'Other assaults' includes unlawfully causing bodily harm, discharge firearm with intent, using firearm or imitation firearm in the commission of an offence, pointing a firearm, assault against a peace or public officer, and other assaults.

'Other violent offences' includes criminal negligence causing bodily harm, trap likely to cause or causing bodily harm, kidnapping, forcible confinement, hostagetaking, trafficking in persons, abduction, extortion, intimidation of a non-justice participant, explosives causing death or bodily harm, arson, and other violent violations. Adapted from Statistics Canada, Family violence in Canada: A statistical profile 2016, page 47, 2016. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.

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