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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 - Métis Identity
Step 3: Geography - Atlantic provinces, All provinces

Related 2006 Census data:

Aboriginal population showing population counts and percentage change - Atlantic provinces or All provinces

Healthy living	Atlantic provinces	All provinces
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Healthy living	percent²
General Health
In excellent or very good health	90	84
In good health	8^E	13
In fair or poor health	^x	3
Activity limitations
With one or more activity limitations:
Yes, sometimes	9^E	9
Yes, often	7^E	9
No, does not have any difficulty	84	82
Medical conditions (diagnosed by a health professional)
With one or more health conditions	54	50
With one or more severe chronic health conditions	45	42
With allergies	24	19
With asthma	15	15
With a heart condition	^x	2
With ear infections or ear problems	12^E	9
With a hearing impairment	^F	3
With a visual impairment	13	11
Physical injuries
Injured in last 12 months	11^E	12
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	45	54
Another medical specialist	29	32
Community health nurse, public health nurse or nurse practitioner	18	18
Traditional Aboriginal healer	^x	2
Dental care
Children and youth who last received dental care:
Within the last 12 months	75	82
More than 1 year ago	20	16
Children and youth in need of dental treatment	28	29
Of those in need of dental treatment:
Arrangements have been made for dental treatment	54	51
Arrangements have not been made for dental treatment	42	44
Education and social activities	Atlantic provinces	All provinces
Education and social activities	percent²
School attendance
Currently attending school	99	99
Attended an early childhood development or preschool program	72	63
Attended Aboriginal specific early childhood development or preschool program	6^E	13
Absence from school:
Absent or missed school for a period of 2 or more weeks in a row	3^E	3
Attributes of the school (parent or guardian's views)
School provides enough information about his/her academic progress:
Strongly agree or agree	91	92
Disagree or strongly disagree	8^E	6
School provides enough information about his/her attendance:
Strongly agree or agree	96	96
Disagree or strongly disagree	^x	3
School provides enough information about his/her behaviour at school:
Strongly agree or agree	91	91
Disagree or strongly disagree	8^E	7
Satisfied with the level of discipline at this school:
Strongly agree or agree	85	85
Disagree or strongly disagree	14	12
Feel the presence of drugs and alcohol is a problem at this school:
Strongly agree or agree	16	13
Disagree or strongly disagree	80	81
Feel violence is a problem at this school
Strongly agree or agree	19	18
Disagree or strongly disagree	78	78
Satisfied with the quality of teaching at this school
Strongly agree or agree	89	90
Disagree or strongly disagree	10^E	8
Child is challenged to work at his/her full potential
Strongly agree or agree	88	87
Disagree or strongly disagree	11	11
Satisfied with how this school is preparing him/her to make choices about his/her future:
Strongly agree or agree	83	84
Disagree or strongly disagree	13	11
School has high academic standards:
Strongly agree or agree	83	83
Disagree or strongly disagree	13	12
Satisfied with the availability of extracurricular activities at this school:
Strongly agree or agree	77	76
Disagree or strongly disagree	19	20
Child or youth is happy at this school
Strongly agree or agree	92	93
Disagree or strongly disagree	7^E	6
Performance at school (parent or guardian's views)
Very well or well	75	73
Average	19	21
Poorly or very poorly	4^E	5
Importance of graduating from high school (parent or guardian's views)
High school graduation is very important	98	97
Social activities
Average number of hours used to watch TV, videos or DVDs per day (count)	2.0	2.0
Average number of hours used to play video games per day (count)	0.6	0.8
How often child or youth plays sports:
Never or less than once per week	33	29
One or more times per week	67	70
Languages	Atlantic provinces	All provinces
Languages	percent²
Ability to speak and understand an Aboriginal language
Able to speak and understand	^x	6
Able to understand only	10^E	21
Neither speak nor understand	86	71
Language group of primary Aboriginal language spoken
Able to speak or understand Cree	^x	37
Able to speak or understand an Inuit language	^x	^x
Able to speak or understand an Aboriginal language	^x	62
Importance to keep, learn or re-learn an Aboriginal language (parent or guardian's views)
Very important or somewhat important	50	51
Not very important or not important	49	47
Who receive help learning an Aboriginal language from:
Grandparents	^x	11
Parents	5^E	13
Aunts and uncles	^x	2
School teachers	^x	6

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.