Description for chart 3
Homicides, by most common type of method, Canada, 1961 to 2011

The title of the graph is "Chart 3 Homicides, by most common type of method, Canada, 1961 to 2011."
This is a line chart.
There are in total 51 categories in the horizontal axis. The vertical axis starts at 0 and ends at 1.4 with ticks every 0.2 points.
There are 4 series in this graph.
The vertical axis is "rate per 100,000 population."
The units of the horizontal axis are years from 1961 to 2011.
The title of series 1 is " Shootings."
The minimum value is 0.43 occurring in 1962.
The maximum value is 1.262 occurring in 1975.
The title of series 2 is " Stabbings."
The minimum value is 0.14 occurring in 1966.
The maximum value is 0.88 occurring in 1985.
The title of series 3 is " Beatings."
The minimum value is 0.24 occurring in 1961 and 1964.
The maximum value is 0.7 occurring in 1975.
The title of series 4 is " Other."
The minimum value is 0.1 occurring in 1961.
The maximum value is 0.61 occurring in 1977.

Chart 3
Homicides, by most common type of method, Canada, 1961 to 2011
Table summary
 This table displays the results of homicides. The information is grouped by year (appearing as row headers), shootings, stabbings, beatings and other, calculated using rate per 100,000 population units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year Shootings Stabbings Beatings Other
rate per 100,000 population
1961 0.466 0.18 0.24 0.10
1962 0.430 0.23 0.27 0.20
1963 0.523 0.18 0.25 0.16
1964 0.544 0.21 0.24 0.13
1965 0.575 0.17 0.26 0.22
1966 0.460 0.14 0.27 0.23
1967 0.672 0.25 0.26 0.19
1968 0.652 0.30 0.33 0.22
1969 0.733 0.31 0.33 0.27
1970 0.831 0.32 0.34 0.53
1971 0.870 0.31 0.42 0.32
1972 0.905 0.35 0.42 0.48
1973 0.965 0.41 0.46 0.28
1974 1.241 0.41 0.58 0.37
1975 1.262 0.54 0.70 0.51
1976 1.100 0.58 0.63 0.53
1977 1.096 0.63 0.64 0.61
1978 1.043 0.61 0.63 0.45
1979 0.855 0.67 0.55 0.51
1980 0.795 0.56 0.48 0.54
1981 0.802 0.71 0.62 0.44
1982 0.987 0.72 0.49 0.43
1983 0.883 0.68 0.60 0.50
1984 0.890 0.74 0.46 0.50
1985 0.859 0.88 0.47 0.50
1986 0.670 0.63 0.48 0.37
1987 0.764 0.70 0.51 0.43
1988 0.631 0.63 0.52 0.35
1989 0.799 0.62 0.47 0.49
1990 0.708 0.77 0.47 0.40
1991 0.967 0.80 0.51 0.40
1992 0.871 0.74 0.53 0.41
1993 0.680 0.67 0.40 0.42
1994 0.676 0.53 0.37 0.46
1995 0.601 0.62 0.41 0.35
1996 0.716 0.66 0.44 0.29
1997 0.645 0.56 0.38 0.35
1998 0.501 0.62 0.41 0.30
1999 0.543 0.47 0.41 0.31
2000 0.600 0.49 0.42 0.25
2001 0.551 0.55 0.39 0.26
2002 0.485 0.58 0.40 0.32
2003 0.509 0.45 0.38 0.33
2004 0.542 0.64 0.43 0.30
2005 0.692 0.61 0.45 0.26
2006 0.583 0.64 0.37 0.23
2007 0.571 0.58 0.36 0.23
2008 0.603 0.60 0.37 0.22
2009 0.540 0.62 0.35 0.25
2010 0.501 0.48 0.34 0.24
2011 0.458 0.59 0.36 0.26
Note: 'Other' excludes homicides for which the method used was unknown. Data prior to 1974 exclude manslaughter. Therefore, rates for those years may be slightly under-reported. Manslaughter accounts for about 1 out of 10 homicides. Of the manslaughters that took place since 1974, 47% were by beatings, 13% by a knife or other cutting instrument, 12% by a firearm and 28% by another method.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Homicide Survey.
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