Facts About Woman Abuse Did you know that... 51% of Canadian women report having experienced at least one incident of physical or sexual violence since the age of 16. [Statistics Canada, 1993]1 Nearly 3 in 10 Canadian women (29%) who have ever been married or lived in a common-law relationship have been physically or sexually assaulted by a marital partner at some point during the relationship. [Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, 1994]2 Of 22,000 victims of spousal violence reported to police in 1997, 88% were female and 12% were male. [Statistics Canada, 1999]3 Women are seven times more likely to be killed or hurt in their homes than by strangers. [Statistics Canada, 1993]4 2/3 of all murdered women died at the hands of their intimate partners. [Statistics Canada, 1993]5 40% of woman abuse incidents begin during pregnancy. [Noel and Yam, 1992]6 Woman abuse occurs in all forms of relationships including marital, common-law, lesbian and dating and exists in all cultural, socio-economic and religious communities. [Sinclair, 1985]7 Abuse is the single major cause of injury among women - more frequent than auto accidents, muggings and rapes combined. [Hadley, 1992]8 1.   Statistics Canada. The Daily. (Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, November 18, 1993): 1 2.   Karen Rodgers, "Wife Assault: The Findings of a National Survey", Juristat, 14, 9 (Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, 1994): 1, 4, 12 3.   Robin Fitzgerald, Family Violence in Canada: A Statistical Profile 1999 (Ottawa: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, 1999): 11 4.   Statistics Canada. The Daily. (Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, November 18, 1993) 5.   ibid 6.   Noel, N. and Yam, M. "Domestic Violence: The Pregnant Battered Woman", Women's Health 27 (4), 1992. 7.   Sinclair, Deborah. Understanding Wife Assault, Toronto, Ontario, 1985. 8.   Hadley, S. "Working with Battered Women in the Emergency Department: A Model Program.", JOEN, 18 (1), 1992.