Table 2.

Socio-demographic profile by types of childhood abuse

Selected characteristics	Physical abuse (%)			Sexual abuse (%)			Exposure to interpersonal violence (%)			Any abuse (%)
	No	Yes	P	No	Yes	P	No	Yes	P	No	Yes	P
Age			<0.001			<0.001			<0.001			<0.001
18–24	13.57	8.56		12.26	4.92		11.88	9.38		13.94	8.67
25–44	33.15	36.25		35.00	30.40		33.76	39.30		32.97	36.13
45–64	33.02	39.96		34.75	45.71		35.39	39.41		32.67	39.62
65+	20.26	15.23		17.99	18.97		18.97	11.92		20.42	15.58
Gender			<0.001			<0.001			0.100			<0.001
Male	45.20	55.21		51.51	30.90		49.50	46.87		46.37	52.78
Female	54.80	44.79		48.49	69.10		50.50	53.13		53.63	47.22
Marital Status			<0.001			<0.001			0.418			<0.001
Married/Common law	56.76	64.92		59.71	63.22		63.28	62.46		55.99	65.00
Single	30.64	21.69		27.95	19.11		23.38	22.85		31.65	21.41
Divorced/Separated/Widowed	12.59	13.38		12.34	17.68		13.34	14.70		12.36	13.58
Income			<0.001			<0.001			<0.001			<0.001
< 15,000	25.97	17.99		22.38	24.09		19.05	23.51		26.40	18.32
15,000–29,999	21.53	20.49		20.44	26.21		21.37	23.87		20.87	21.32
30,000–49,999	23.12	24.03		23.58	22.95		24.72	22.02		23.21	23.84
50,000–69,999	13.66	16.12		14.85	13.53		15.58	14.10		13.76	15.75
70,000–89,999	7.39	9.58		8.58	6.29		8.66	8.75		7.21	9.56
90,000+	8.34	11.79		10.17	6.94		10.62	7.76		8.55	11.21
Education			<0.001			0.039			<0.001			<0.001
Less than secondary	21.84	12.72		18.21	17.35		14.17	16.89		22.28	13.13
Secondary graduation	16.39	14.87		16.06	13.36		16.37	16.83		16.45	14.95
Some post secondary	6.80	7.58		6.96	8.40		6.45	8.97		6.53	7.81
Post secondary	54.97	64.83		58.77	60.90		63.01	57.30		54.73	64.11
Place of residence			0.181			0.236			0.143			0.404
Urban	81.94	83.24		82.63	81.15		82.19	84.00		82.12	82.90
Rural	18.06	16.76		17.37	18.85		17.81	16.00		17.88	17.10
Immigrant			0.218			<0.001			0.161			0.054
Yes	25.67	24.39		25.76	20.01		25.45	27.47		26.05	24.07
No	74.33	75.61		74.24	79.99		74.55	72.53		73.95	75.93