Table 2.
Estimated age-specific homicide death rates per 100,000 population in Ontario, by age group, over the 1999–2012 period
| Age group | Female | Male | Both sexes | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N (%) | Rate | CI: 95% | N (%) | Rate | CI: 95% | N (%) | Rate | CI: 95% | ||||
| Less than 5 | 43 (6.5%) | 0.93 | 0.72 | 1.15 | 48 (3.1%) | 1.07 | 0.84 | 1.29 | 91 (4.1%) | 1.00 | 0.84 | 1.16 |
| 5–14 | 30 (4.5%) | 0.33 | 0.24 | 0.41 | 31 (2.0%) | 0.29 | 0.21 | 0.37 | 61 (2.8%) | 0.31 | 0.25 | 0.37 |
| 15–29 | 154 (23.3%) | 0.94 | 0.83 | 1.06 | 699 (45.4%) | 3.41 | 3.19 | 3.63 | 853 (38.8%) | 2.19 | 2.06 | 2.32 |
| 30–44 | 188 (28.4%) | 0.97 | 0.87 | 1.08 | 375 (24.4%) | 1.90 | 1.75 | 2.05 | 563 (25.6%) | 1.44 | 1.34 | 1.53 |
| 45–64 | 167 (25.2%) | 0.76 | 0.67 | 0.86 | 291 (18.9%) | 1.36 | 1.23 | 1.49 | 458 (20.8%) | 1.06 | 0.98 | 1.14 |
| 65 and over | 80 (12.1%) | 0.56 | 0.46 | 0.66 | 95 (6.2%) | 0.99 | 0.83 | 1.14 | 175 (8.0%) | 0.75 | 0.66 | 0.84 |
| Total | 662 (100.0%) | 0.77 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 1539 (100.0%) | 1.70 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 2201 (100.0%) | 1.23 | 1.19 | 1.28 |