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2006 Profile of Aboriginal Children, Youth and Adults

Step 1: Age group - 6 to 14 years of age
Step 2: Population - Treaty or Registered Indian (living off-reserve)
Step 3: Geography - All territories, Canada

Related 2006 Census data:

Aboriginal population showing population counts and percentage change - All territories or Canada
Aboriginal Population Profile - Canada

Healthy living	All territories	Canada
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	Total	Total	Male	Female
	percent²
General Health
In excellent or very good health	79	79	78	81
In good health	19	17	18	16
In fair or poor health	^x	4	5	3
Activity limitations
With one or more activity limitations:
Yes, sometimes	6^E	9	10	8
Yes, often	5^E	9	10	7
No, does not have any difficulty	89	82	80	84
Medical conditions (diagnosed by a health professional)
With one or more health conditions	35	49	52	46
With one or more severe chronic health conditions	27	42	45	38
With allergies	13	16	16	15
With asthma	6	13	15	11
With a heart condition	^x	2	2^E	2^E
With ear infections or ear problems	9	8	9	8
With a hearing impairment	4^E	3	3	2
With a visual impairment	4^E	11	11	11
Physical injuries
Injured in last 12 months	10	11	13	9
Health care
Who has parent or guardian seen in past 12 months for physical, emotional or mental health of the child or youth:
Pediatrician, general practitioner or family physician	38	54	56	52
Another medical specialist	16	32	33	31
Community health nurse, public health nurse or nurse practitioner	41	22	23	22
Traditional Aboriginal healer	6^E	7	8	7
Dental care
Children and youth who last received dental care:
Within the last 12 months	81	81	80	82
More than 1 year ago	13	16	17	15
Children and youth in need of dental treatment	32	29	29	30
Of those in need of dental treatment:
Arrangements have been made for dental treatment	46	51	52	50
Arrangements have not been made for dental treatment	36	41	42	41
Education and social activities	All territories	Canada
	Total	Total	Male	Female
	percent²
School attendance
Currently attending school	99	98	98	98
Attended an early childhood development or preschool program	68	63	61	64
Attended Aboriginal specific early childhood development or preschool program	58	36	35	37
Absence from school:
Absent or missed school for a period of 2 or more weeks in a row	4^E	4	4	4
Attributes of the school (parent or guardian's views)
School provides enough information about his/her academic progress:
Strongly agree or agree	84	91	91	91
Disagree or strongly disagree	10	6	6	6
School provides enough information about his/her attendance:
Strongly agree or agree	86	94	94	94
Disagree or strongly disagree	6^E	3	3	3
School provides enough information about his/her behaviour at school:
Strongly agree or agree	84	90	91	89
Disagree or strongly disagree	9^E	7	6	8
Satisfied with the level of discipline at this school:
Strongly agree or agree	71	84	84	84
Disagree or strongly disagree	18	11	12	11
Feel the presence of drugs and alcohol is a problem at this school:
Strongly agree or agree	17	11	11	12
Disagree or strongly disagree	67	81	82	80
Feel violence is a problem at this school
Strongly agree or agree	26	21	21	21
Disagree or strongly disagree	63	74	74	73
Satisfied with the quality of teaching at this school
Strongly agree or agree	77	88	88	89
Disagree or strongly disagree	15	9	9	8
Child is challenged to work at his/her full potential
Strongly agree or agree	74	85	85	86
Disagree or strongly disagree	18	11	12	10
Satisfied with how this school is preparing him/her to make choices about his/her future:
Strongly agree or agree	70	82	82	83
Disagree or strongly disagree	16	11	12	10
School has high academic standards:
Strongly agree or agree	62	80	81	79
Disagree or strongly disagree	25	12	12	12
Satisfied with the availability of extracurricular activities at this school:
Strongly agree or agree	70	76	76	77
Disagree or strongly disagree	22	19	20	17
Child or youth is happy at this school
Strongly agree or agree	82	91	91	92
Disagree or strongly disagree	11	6	6	6
Performance at school (parent or guardian's views)
Very well or well	65	68	63	74
Average	24	25	29	20
Poorly or very poorly	6^E	5	6	4
Importance of graduating from high school (parent or guardian's views)
High school graduation is very important	95	97	96	98
Social activities
Average number of hours used to watch TV, videos or DVDs per day (count)	2.4	2.3	2.4	2.3
Average number of hours used to play video games per day (count)	1.1	0.9	1.4	0.5
How often child or youth plays sports:
Never or less than once per week	39	34	30	39
One or more times per week	59	64	69	60
Languages	All territories	Canada
	Total	Total	Male	Female
	percent²
Ability to speak and understand an Aboriginal language
Able to speak and understand	44	23	21	24
Able to understand only	40	37	37	38
Neither speak nor understand	16	38	39	37
Language group of primary Aboriginal language spoken
Able to speak or understand Cree	^x	27	27	27
Able to speak or understand an Inuit language	^F	1^E	^F	^F
Able to speak or understand an Aboriginal language	96	72	72	72
Importance to keep, learn or re-learn an Aboriginal language (parent or guardian's views)
Very important or somewhat important	89	77	77	78
Not very important or not important	10	20	20	20
Who receive help learning an Aboriginal language from:
Grandparents	47	29	29	30
Parents	47	34	34	34
Aunts and uncles	16	9	9	9
School teachers	64	15	15	15

Symbols:

E use with caution

F too unreliable to be published

x suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act

Notes:

1. To access the comma-separated values (CSV) or the tab-separated values (TAB) file, use the conversion features available in most spreadsheet software, or use a free-of-charge viewer.
2. Percentages may not add to 100 because missing data (i.e., don't know, refusal, not stated) were included in the calculation of all estimates and because of rounding. Percentages are rounded to the nearest whole number.

Source: Statistics Canada, Aboriginal Peoples Survey, 2006.