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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 - Ontario, All provinces

Related 2006 Census data:

Aboriginal population showing population counts and percentage change - Ontario or All provinces
Aboriginal Population Profile - Ontario

Healthy living	Ontario	All provinces
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Healthy living	percent²
General Health
In excellent or very good health	87	84
In good health	10	13
In fair or poor health	3^E	3
Activity limitations
With one or more activity limitations:
Yes, sometimes	10	9
Yes, often	11	9
No, does not have any difficulty	79	82
Medical conditions (diagnosed by a health professional)
With one or more health conditions	55	50
With one or more severe chronic health conditions	47	42
With allergies	22	19
With asthma	15	15
With a heart condition	3^E	2
With ear infections or ear problems	10	9
With a hearing impairment	3^E	3
With a visual impairment	11	11
Physical injuries
Injured in last 12 months	13	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	57	54
Another medical specialist	30	32
Community health nurse, public health nurse or nurse practitioner	16	18
Traditional Aboriginal healer	3^E	2
Dental care
Children and youth who last received dental care:
Within the last 12 months	86	82
More than 1 year ago	11	16
Children and youth in need of dental treatment	27	29
Of those in need of dental treatment:
Arrangements have been made for dental treatment	59	51
Arrangements have not been made for dental treatment	37	44
Education and social activities	Ontario	All provinces
Education and social activities	percent²
School attendance
Currently attending school	98	99
Attended an early childhood development or preschool program	53	63
Attended Aboriginal specific early childhood development or preschool program	5^E	13
Absence from school:
Absent or missed school for a period of 2 or more weeks in a row	2^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	6
School provides enough information about his/her attendance:
Strongly agree or agree	96	96
Disagree or strongly disagree	2^E	3
School provides enough information about his/her behaviour at school:
Strongly agree or agree	90	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	13	12
Feel the presence of drugs and alcohol is a problem at this school:
Strongly agree or agree	11	13
Disagree or strongly disagree	84	81
Feel violence is a problem at this school
Strongly agree or agree	19	18
Disagree or strongly disagree	79	78
Satisfied with the quality of teaching at this school
Strongly agree or agree	90	90
Disagree or strongly disagree	9	8
Child is challenged to work at his/her full potential
Strongly agree or agree	85	87
Disagree or strongly disagree	13	11
Satisfied with how this school is preparing him/her to make choices about his/her future:
Strongly agree or agree	82	84
Disagree or strongly disagree	13	11
School has high academic standards:
Strongly agree or agree	84	83
Disagree or strongly disagree	12	12
Satisfied with the availability of extracurricular activities at this school:
Strongly agree or agree	72	76
Disagree or strongly disagree	24	20
Child or youth is happy at this school
Strongly agree or agree	93	93
Disagree or strongly disagree	5^E	6
Performance at school (parent or guardian's views)
Very well or well	71	73
Average	23	21
Poorly or very poorly	5^E	5
Importance of graduating from high school (parent or guardian's views)
High school graduation is very important	97	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)	0.7	0.8
How often child or youth plays sports:
Never or less than once per week	29	29
One or more times per week	70	70
Languages	Ontario	All provinces
Languages	percent²
Ability to speak and understand an Aboriginal language
Able to speak and understand	2^E	6
Able to understand only	15	21
Neither speak nor understand	82	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	96	62
Importance to keep, learn or re-learn an Aboriginal language (parent or guardian's views)
Very important or somewhat important	53	51
Not very important or not important	46	47
Who receive help learning an Aboriginal language from:
Grandparents	5^E	11
Parents	8	13
Aunts and uncles	^x	2
School teachers	2^E	6

Symbols:

E use with caution

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.