Evidence of meeting #36 for Status of Women in the 41st Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was data.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Director and Senior Counsel, Policy Centre for Victim Issues, Department of Justice
If I could mention a few more, we've worked with Project KARE, also from Edmonton, and Ka Ni Kanichihk of Medicine Bear Counselling, which is from Winnipeg, and the Tree of Life project, which is in Vancouver.
NDP
Liberal
Kirsty Duncan Liberal Etobicoke North, ON
Thank you again, everyone.
For Statistics Canada, with the 2014 general social survey, you've listed new questions that are going to be added, and that's important. Have any questions been changed?
Chief, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics , Statistics Canada
Yes. There are always changes to a questionnaire. It's a tool. We engage our partners to determine whether there are any emerging issues. We engage members from the police services to look at some of the questions. It's an evolving tool, so there have been changes—
Chief, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics , Statistics Canada
I couldn't tell you, but I could get that information for you.
Liberal
Kirsty Duncan Liberal Etobicoke North, ON
Okay. I really would like to see what was under the long-form census—all the questions—and what will be under this.
Chief, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics , Statistics Canada
The general social survey on victimization is independent of the long-form census. They're two different tools.
Liberal
Chief, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics , Statistics Canada
When we release data from the social survey on victimization, it's released independent from the census.
Liberal
Kirsty Duncan Liberal Etobicoke North, ON
I understand that, but it still would be useful to see.
Do we have any idea of the percentage coverage? You've said that it's the last five years, so is it every police force...?
Chief, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics , Statistics Canada
The GSS asks questions of a random sample of individuals about their experiences of victimization for the past 12 months. When we publish, we would say that respondents contacted expressed that they were victimized either violently through a physical assault, robbery, or sexual assault, or a household victimization, and it's for the previous 12 months. There's a dedicated section looking at spousal violence. In those questions, we ask respondents for their experience for the previous five years.
Again, these are two data points, every five years, that are collected.
Liberal
Kirsty Duncan Liberal Etobicoke North, ON
Do we have an idea, is it across the police forces? What percentage are reporting?
Chief, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics , Statistics Canada
The survey goes out to households, to individuals, not to police forces, so—
Liberal
Kirsty Duncan Liberal Etobicoke North, ON
Right, but there are two sets. There are the individual households and there are the police. Yes?
Chief, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics , Statistics Canada
Oh, I'm sorry. I'm getting clarification.
What we know from Canadians is that not all of their violent victimization gets reported to police. We look at the data. The last time we did it in 2009.... Let me get the exact number.
I guess I need clarification on your question. I apologize.
You would like to know police data. We have 99% coverage from all police services.
Chief, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics , Statistics Canada
I think we were at about 78%, and then going back another five years, we were at 43%.
Assistant Deputy Minister, Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention Branch, Public Health Agency of Canada
I don't know the answer to that question, but I'll find out.
Liberal
Kirsty Duncan Liberal Etobicoke North, ON
Okay, thank you.
I have one very quick question. You mentioned that we have the 80 violence prevention interventions. I'm wondering if there's any tracking of who's looking at this and whether these are being adopted. If so, by whom, and do the people feel that they're making a difference? What tracking are we doing of that?
Assistant Deputy Minister, Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention Branch, Public Health Agency of Canada
I'm writing that question down, because I'm going to find that out for you as well.
NDP
