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Possible Images and Statistics for Final Poster Source: http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-002-x/2010002/article/11242-eng.htm#r1


 * Chart 3**
 * Increase in rates of dating violence for male and female victims, 2004 to 2008**
 * Note:** Excludes incidents where the sex of the victim was unknown. Includes victims aged 15 to 98. Dating violence refers to violence committed by current and former boyfriends/girlfriends and other intimate partners. Incident-based trend data are reported by a subset of police services that have been consistently reporting to the UCR2 Survey since 1999.
 * Source:** Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR2) Trend Database.

According to results of the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY), approximately 71%[|1] of youth in Canada report being in a dating relationship by the age of 15.

Close to 23,000 incidents of dating violence were reported to police in 2008.

Over 8 in 10 victims of violence in dating relationships were female.

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