Background - 2018 Fast Fact Sheet

Introduction

Since 2010, the National Centre for Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains (NCMPUR) has produced the NCMPUR Fast Fact Sheet. This fact sheet provides a national breakdown of missing persons reports by province, age (child or adult), sex, and probable cause. The NCMPUR 2018 Fast Fact Sheet has been prepared using numbers generated by the national Missing Children/Persons and Unidentified Remains (MC/PUR) Database, which provides the necessary data and tools to coordinate a national approach to these investigations. MC/PUR includes occurrences which are currently open, and concluded occurrences Footnote 1 only if they were open after May 16, 2014. This is the fourth year for which a full set of data exists in MC/PUR for statistical purposes.

The data in MC/PUR is derived from missing person transactions in the Canadian Police Information Centre (CPIC). Therefore, it is limited by the quality and types of data that agencies enter into CPIC, and the techniques used by MC/PUR to compile that data. CPIC transactions include repeat runaways, and situations where a single instance of a missing person may be entered and deleted multiple times by different agencies over a period of time (e.g., a child goes missing with the initial report being filed with one police service; however, further investigation indicates the file falls within another police service's jurisdiction). MC/PUR uses algorithms in an attempt to identify and eliminate duplicate data and produce more accurate statistics. These algorithms are different from those used before 2015, so retroactive comparison to years before 2015 will not be completely correct Footnote 2. An occurrence is considered as belonging to the year 2018 based on the reported Date Last Seen Footnote 3. The number of missing person subjects reported herein reflects a "point in time" and can change if records for 2018 cases are added, modified, or flagged as duplicate Footnote 4.

It is also important to note that in terms of probable cause, there is some subjectivity in the original CPIC data that populates MC/PUR, and it may not be consistently completed nor maintained by agencies.

While the NCMPUR anticipates that future fast fact sheets will be in a similar format to the one produced this year, the categories may change in future years to provide a more comprehensive picture of the missing person reports. As the statistics become more descriptive, retroactive comparisons to previous years may not be possible.

Fast fact sheet – MC/PUR missing adult subjects by province, sex and probable cause for 2018 Footnote *
Provinces
(Population in 2018 Footnote 5)
Abduction by Stranger Accident Wandered Off Parental Abduction with Custody Order Parental Abduction without Custody Order Abducted by Relative Runaway Presumed Dead Human Trafficking Unknown Other Total
  Female Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female Male  
Alberta
(4,306,039)
2 1 0 1 252 493 0 0 0 0 0 0 307 229 0 1 0 1 902 1,198 78 132 3,597
British Columbia
(5,016,322)
7 3 8 20 355 682 1 7 0 0 1 0 557 588 1 8 0 2 3,837 5,174 542 738 12,532
Manitoba
(1,356,836)
1 0 0 1 34 63 0 0 0 0 0 0 807 332 0 2 0 0 339 317 49 69 2,014
New Brunswick
 (772,238)
1 2 0 0 8 26 0 0 0 0 0 0 35 58 0 0 0 0 132 191 13 24 490
Newfoundland and Labrador (525,073) 0 0 0 1 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 11 0 3 0 0 31 46 6 7 115
Nova Scotia
(964,693)
0 0 0 0 5 13 2 0 0 0 0 0 31 8 0 0 0 0 39 77 48 79 302
Ontario
(14,279,196)
1 8 1 10 233 521 2 0 1 1 0 1 601 721 1 3 18 0 2,064 2,532 341 437 7,497
Prince Edward Island
(154,750)
0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 3 13 0 0 23
Quebec
(8,421,698)
2 3 1 6 53 174 1 1 3 3 0 0 330 792 0 8 1 0 415 798 218 433 3,242
Saskatchewan
(1,165,903)
1 2 1 1 38 67 0 0 0 0 0 0 224 214 0 0 0 0 391 465 10 35 1,449
Yukon Territory
(40,333)
0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 11 32 1 2 52
Northwest Territories
(44,445)
0 0 0 0 3 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 2 0 0 0 0 21 23 1 5 72
Nunavut Territory
(38,650)
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 3
Total
(37,242,571)
15 19 11 42 982 2,055 6 8 4 4 1 1 2,910 2,958 2 26 19 3 8,185 10,868 1,307 1,961 31,387

Four (4) female MP Subjects and one (1) male MP Subject were not included in this table as the province was classified under 'Other'.
Two hundred thirteen (213) missing adult reports were not included in this table as there was no probable cause entered.
Six (6) missing adults were not included in this table as the sex was unknown or other.

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Fast fact sheet – MC/PUR missing child subjects by province, sex and probable cause for 2018 Footnote **
Provinces
(Population in 2018 Footnote 7)

Abduction by Stranger

Accident

Wandered Off

Parental Abduction with Custody Order

Parental Abduction without Custody Order

Abducted by Relative

Runaway

Presumed Dead

Human Trafficking

Unknown

Other

Total

 

Female

Male

Female

Male

Female

Male

Female

Male

Female

Male

Female

Male

Female

Male

Female

Male

Female

Male

Female

Male

Female

Male

 

Alberta
(4,330,206)

0 0 0 0 38 28 2 1 5 3 2 0 1,859 1,363 1 1 1 0 155 112 15 12 3,598

British Columbia
(5,016,322)

2 0 1 3 49 59 6 10 10 9 0 0 1,428 887 0 0 0 0 1,984 1,739 416 317 6,920

Manitoba
(1,356,836)

1 1 1 0 10 4 3 3 2 0 4 2 6,136 2,570 3 4 0 1 165 84 40 14 9,048

New Brunswick
(772,238)

1 4 1 0 3 4 0 0 0 1 0 0 129 213 0 0 0 0 39 68 6 6 475

Newfoundland and Labrador (525,073)

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 26 53 0 0 0 0 36 63 4 6

188

Nova Scotia
(964,693)

0 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 276 158 0 0 0 0 10 14 6 12 480

Ontario
(14,411,424)

4 2 1 3 62 49 12 9 10 2 1 1 4,005 2,959 1 1 22 0 1,680 886 306 173 10,189

Prince Edward Island
(154,750)

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 7 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 15

Quebec
(8,421,698)

4 5 1 0 6 12 9 9 9 9 0 2 1,766 2,891 0 0 2 4 386 558 129 125 5,927

Saskatchewan
(1,165,903)

2 1 0 2 3 8 2 6 1 1 0 0 2,706 1,545 0 0 0 0 560 474 18 8 5,337

Yukon Territory
(40,333)

0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 1 0 0 0 0 4 2 0 0 17

Northwest Territories
(44,445)

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 9 1 0 0 0 0 13 5 1 0 30

Nunavut Territory
(38,650)

0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 9

Total
(37,242,571)

14 13 6 8 172 167 38 38 39 26 7 5 18,355 12,648 5 6 25 5 5,037 4,005 941 673 42,233

Fifty-four (54) missing children reports were not included in this table as there was no probable cause entered.
Fifty one (51) missing children were not included in this table as the sex was unknown or other.

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