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Statistics: The Violence Against Women Survey - Highlights

One-half of all Canadian women have experienced at least one incident of violence since the age of 16
Almost one-half of women reported violence by men known to them and one-quarter reported violence by a stranger
One-quarter of all women have experienced violence at the hands of their current or past marital partner (includes common-law unions)
One-in-six currently married women reported violence by their spouses; one-half of women with previous marriages reported violence by a previous spouse
More than one-in-ten women who reported violence in a current marriage have at some point felt their lives were in danger
Six-in-ten Canadian women who walk alone in their own area after dark feel "very" or "somewhat" worried doing so
Women with violent fathers-in-law are at three times the risk of assault by their partners than are women with non-violent fathers-in-law

For more in-depth information is available in a full-text from Statistics Canada. Please see Family Violence in Canada: A Statistical Profile (1998 - 2005)

A statistical report on Shelters for Abused Women is also available online from Statistics Canada.

Resource details:
Source: Statistics Canada. The Daily, Thursday, November 18, 1993.

Type/Format of Resource: Article

Category/Topic of interest: Woman Abuse

Population Group: Friends & Family; Victims / Survivors

Language of Resource: English

Year of Publication: 2001

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Associated Document:
Family violence in Canada: a statistical profile (Acrobat PDF file)