mixed-mode probability
SCStatistics Canada
Survey of Safety in Public and Private Spaces (SSPPS), 2025 cycle · Oct 2024 – Jun 30, 2025 · Canada national
Methodology
- Pollster
- Statistics Canada government
- Sponsor
- Statistics Canada
- Fielded
- Oct 2024 – Jun 30, 2025
- Population
- adults
- Sample size
- 48,547
- Sample frame
- mixed-mode probability
- Mode
- self-administered online or interviewer-administered by telephone
- Margin of error
- not disclosed
- Weighting
- survey designed and weighted to ensure representation by geographical region, age and gender; detailed weighting not stated in the retrieved release
- Geography
- Canada national
- Base notes
- people aged 15 and older; results are reported separately for women and men throughout and no combined total is published for these statements
Sources
Verification note. The largest-sample survey in this file and the only government one. Statement wording and percentages read from the Statistics Canada Daily release of 22 May 2026 and the accompanying Juristat article 'Perceptions of gender-based violence and gender equality, identity and expression in Canada, 2025'. Statistics Canada reports these statements only split by gender, not as an overall total, so no Total rows exist. The Saskatchewan and 'born in Canada' figures come from secondary coverage of the same release (The Conversation and Yahoo News Canada respectively) rather than from the tables directly. StatCan explicitly warns that the family-member statement is NOT comparable with 2018 because it was reworded from a negative to a positive formulation.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (2)
agreement that people should be free to express their gender however they choose
In both its 2018 and 2025 cycles, the Survey of Safety in Public and Private Spaces used a series of eight statements to measure perceptions of gender-based violence, gender expression and gender equality, asking respondents their level of agreement with each statement.
People should be able to express their gender however they choose
Wording notes: abstract expression framing rather than a specific right or policy | embedded in a battery otherwise about gender-based violence and gender equality
neutral — a plainly worded expression statement with no policy content; StatCan uses the identical wording in both cycles, which is what makes the 2018-2025 decline interpretable
Subgroup figures (11)
gender
age
race
education
region
other
willingness to support a family member who came out as transgender
In both its 2018 and 2025 cycles, the Survey of Safety in Public and Private Spaces used a series of eight statements to measure perceptions of gender-based violence, gender expression and gender equality, asking respondents their level of agreement with each statement.
I would support a family member if they came out as transgender
Wording notes: reworded in 2025 from the 2018 negative formulation 'If a family member of mine came out as transgender, I would not be able to support them', so the two cycles are not directly comparable
neutral — positively worded in 2025 and negatively worded in 2018; each formulation on its own is balanced, but the switch means the apparent trend is confounded, which StatCan itself flags
Subgroup figures (2)