Uniform Crime Reporting Survey

Overview

Summary

The Uniform Crime Reporting Survey was designed to measure the incidence of crime in Canadian society and its characteristics. The information is used by federal and provincial policy makers as well as public and private researchers.

It is important to note that there have been a few notable changes since the UCR data were last available on the repository:

• Effective January 2018, new standards for reporting incidents by clearance status were established for the UCR Survey and disseminated to all police service respondents, with most police services updating their information systems throughout 2018. The 2019 data are the first year of complete data that follows the new reporting standards. This shift in reporting methodology has been documented in technical publications released by Statistics Canada on July 12, 2018.
• The collection of gender information has been expanded to include gender diverse information; however, researchers are asked to pay close attention to the vetting requirements.
• The Canadian Forces Military Police (CFMP) became an active respondent to the UCR survey in 2022 and are required to provide the same information provided by other police services. They have provided incidents going back to January 2020.

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