
Stats and Facts
Did you know statistically?
- 51% of Canadian women have experienced at least one; incident of sexual or physical abuse. (1)
- 1 in 4 Canadian women will be sexually assaulted during her lifetime. (2)
- 69% of women are sexually assaulted by men know to them. (3)
- Every year in Canada, up to 360,000 children are exposed to domestic violence (4)
- 60% of sexual assaults occur in a private home of that 38% in the victim’s home. (5)
- 4 out of 5 female undergraduates recently surveyed at a Canadian university said they had been victims of physical or sexual violence in a dating relationship. (6)
- 60% of Canadian college-aged males said they would commit sexual assault if they were certain they would not get caught. (7)
- 82% of female psychiatric in patients reported a history of physical or sexual abuse. (8)
- Every minute of every day a Canadian woman or child is being sexually assaulted. (9)
- A current or former partner murders 1 to 2 women each week in Canada. (10)
- In 2006, over 38,000 incidents of spousal violence were reported to police across Canada. This represents approximately 15% of all police related violent incidents. (11)
- Aboriginal women are 3 times more likely to experience spousal violence than non-Aboriginal women. (12)
Resources
- Statistics Canada, “The Violence Against Women Survey”, The Daily, November 18, 1993
- Canadian Panel on Violence Against Women “Changing the Landscape: Ending Violence”, Achieving Equality, Ottawa, 1993.
- J. Brickman and J. Briere, “Incidence of Rape and Sexual Assault in an Urban Canadian Population”, The International Journal of Women’s Studies, Vol. 7, no. 3, 1984
- Behind Closed Doors, The Impact of Domestic Violence on Children
- Lenskyj, 1992
- W. DeKeseredy and K. Kelly, “The Incidence and Prevalence of Woman Abuse in Canadian University and College Dating Relationships: Results for a National Survey,” Ottawa: Health Canada, 1993
- D. Kinnon, “Report on Sexual Assault in Canada,” Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women, Ottawa, 1981
- Step It Up Ontario! – Stop criminalizing and psychiatrizing women, 2007
- Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women
- Dauvergne, M. (2002) Homicide in Canada
- Statistics Canada, The Family Violence in Canada, A Statistical Profile, 2008
- Measuring Violence Against Women: Statistical Trends 2006 (Statistics Canada, 2006)
More facts and stats can be found on The Canadian Women’s Foundation’s Fact Sheet.