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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 - Manitoba (Urban), Atlantic provinces (Urban)

Related 2006 Census data:

Aboriginal population showing population counts and percentage change - Manitoba (Urban) or Atlantic provinces (Urban)

Healthy living	Manitoba (Urban)	Atlantic provinces (Urban)
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Healthy living	percent²
General Health
In excellent or very good health	75	82
In good health	20	14^E
In fair or poor health	5^E	^x
Activity limitations
With one or more activity limitations:
Yes, sometimes	8	15^E
Yes, often	9^E	13^E
No, does not have any difficulty	82	72
Medical conditions (diagnosed by a health professional)
With one or more health conditions	47	60
With one or more severe chronic health conditions	42	48
With allergies	13	19^E
With asthma	15	13^E
With a heart condition	2^E	^x
With ear infections or ear problems	8^E	^x
With a hearing impairment	3^E	^x
With a visual impairment	11	8^E
Physical injuries
Injured in last 12 months	14	8^E
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	52
Another medical specialist	30	29
Community health nurse, public health nurse or nurse practitioner	19	15^E
Traditional Aboriginal healer	5^E	^x
Dental care
Children and youth who last received dental care:
Within the last 12 months	72	88
More than 1 year ago	25	8^E
Children and youth in need of dental treatment	29	24^E
Of those in need of dental treatment:
Arrangements have been made for dental treatment	46	59
Arrangements have not been made for dental treatment	46	34^E
Education and social activities	Manitoba (Urban)	Atlantic provinces (Urban)
Education and social activities	percent²
School attendance
Currently attending school	98	100
Attended an early childhood development or preschool program	56	77
Attended Aboriginal specific early childhood development or preschool program	29	17^E
Absence from school:
Absent or missed school for a period of 2 or more weeks in a row	5^E	^x
Attributes of the school (parent or guardian's views)
School provides enough information about his/her academic progress:
Strongly agree or agree	92	87
Disagree or strongly disagree	6^E	13^E
School provides enough information about his/her attendance:
Strongly agree or agree	95	90
Disagree or strongly disagree	3^E	^x
School provides enough information about his/her behaviour at school:
Strongly agree or agree	92	88
Disagree or strongly disagree	6^E	11^E
Satisfied with the level of discipline at this school:
Strongly agree or agree	85	83
Disagree or strongly disagree	11	16^E
Feel the presence of drugs and alcohol is a problem at this school:
Strongly agree or agree	13	14^E
Disagree or strongly disagree	80	84
Feel violence is a problem at this school
Strongly agree or agree	25	21^E
Disagree or strongly disagree	70	78
Satisfied with the quality of teaching at this school
Strongly agree or agree	91	90
Disagree or strongly disagree	7^E	^x
Child is challenged to work at his/her full potential
Strongly agree or agree	87	86
Disagree or strongly disagree	10	13^E
Satisfied with how this school is preparing him/her to make choices about his/her future:
Strongly agree or agree	85	80
Disagree or strongly disagree	9^E	16^E
School has high academic standards:
Strongly agree or agree	82	82
Disagree or strongly disagree	10	15^E
Satisfied with the availability of extracurricular activities at this school:
Strongly agree or agree	79	70
Disagree or strongly disagree	17	26^E
Child or youth is happy at this school
Strongly agree or agree	92	92
Disagree or strongly disagree	7^E	^x
Performance at school (parent or guardian's views)
Very well or well	68	73
Average	24	18^E
Poorly or very poorly	6^E	^x
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)	2.5	2.4
Average number of hours used to play video games per day (count)	1.2	0.8
How often child or youth plays sports:
Never or less than once per week	40	32
One or more times per week	58	67
Languages	Manitoba (Urban)	Atlantic provinces (Urban)
Languages	percent²
Ability to speak and understand an Aboriginal language
Able to speak and understand	17	10^E
Able to understand only	39	25
Neither speak nor understand	42	64
Language group of primary Aboriginal language spoken
Able to speak or understand Cree	32	^x
Able to speak or understand an Inuit language	^x	^x
Able to speak or understand an Aboriginal language	67	92
Importance to keep, learn or re-learn an Aboriginal language (parent or guardian's views)
Very important or somewhat important	76	75
Not very important or not important	22	24^E
Who receive help learning an Aboriginal language from:
Grandparents	28	12^E
Parents	34	17^E
Aunts and uncles	5^E	^x
School teachers	5^E	^x

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.