Context and consequences of domestic violence against men and women in Canada in 2004 : Contexte et conséquences de la violence conjugale envers les hommes et les femmes au Canada, 2004

The last three chapters of this study, based on the results presented in Chapter 4, will discuss in more Secondly, since the methodology used by Statistics detail certain aspects of Johnson’s typology that are Canada to establish the prevalence of domestic put into question by the fi ndings of the 2004 GSS and violence was the same used in the Violence Against 1999 GSS. [...] The least one of the 10 items of the CTS10 in at least one multiple statements in the CTS10 provide the possibil- event (or episode) of domestic violence in the fi ve years ity for them to respond to a specifi c question on their preceding the survey. [...] The selection of the sub-samples retained the same inclusion criteria already used in the analysis of the 1999 GSS data in order to ensure comparability of the results for the two surveys. [...] In other words, one in 63 men and one in 80 In 2004 in Canada, the majority of victims of violence women had been victims of violence on the part of perpetrated by a current spouse/partner in the fi ve their spouse/partner in the 12 months preceding the years preceding the survey reported having experi- GSS in 2004. [...] The addition of a “control” variable, namely the spouse’s violence, in the model predicting women’s violence at the age of 21 provided a means of iso- lating the part of the total variance of women’s violence that could be explained by the spouse’s violence.