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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), Alberta (Rural)

Related 2006 Census data:

Aboriginal population showing population counts and percentage change - Manitoba (Urban) or Alberta (Rural)

Healthy living	Manitoba (Urban)	Alberta (Rural)
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Healthy living	percent²
General Health
In excellent or very good health	75	78
In good health	20	17
In fair or poor health	5^E	4^E
Activity limitations
With one or more activity limitations:
Yes, sometimes	8	8^E
Yes, often	9^E	11^E
No, does not have any difficulty	82	80
Medical conditions (diagnosed by a health professional)
With one or more health conditions	47	46
With one or more severe chronic health conditions	42	39
With allergies	13	12^E
With asthma	15	10^E
With a heart condition	2^E	^x
With ear infections or ear problems	8^E	7^E
With a hearing impairment	3^E	^x
With a visual impairment	11	17
Physical injuries
Injured in last 12 months	14	9^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	54
Another medical specialist	30	38
Community health nurse, public health nurse or nurse practitioner	19	24
Traditional Aboriginal healer	5^E	7^E
Dental care
Children and youth who last received dental care:
Within the last 12 months	72	79
More than 1 year ago	25	19
Children and youth in need of dental treatment	29	26
Of those in need of dental treatment:
Arrangements have been made for dental treatment	46	48
Arrangements have not been made for dental treatment	46	45
Education and social activities	Manitoba (Urban)	Alberta (Rural)
Education and social activities	percent²
School attendance
Currently attending school	98	97
Attended an early childhood development or preschool program	56	67
Attended Aboriginal specific early childhood development or preschool program	29	49
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	85
Disagree or strongly disagree	6^E	7^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	87
Disagree or strongly disagree	6^E	5^E
Satisfied with the level of discipline at this school:
Strongly agree or agree	85	80
Disagree or strongly disagree	11	13
Feel the presence of drugs and alcohol is a problem at this school:
Strongly agree or agree	13	11^E
Disagree or strongly disagree	80	75
Feel violence is a problem at this school
Strongly agree or agree	25	22
Disagree or strongly disagree	70	68
Satisfied with the quality of teaching at this school
Strongly agree or agree	91	84
Disagree or strongly disagree	7^E	8^E
Child is challenged to work at his/her full potential
Strongly agree or agree	87	84
Disagree or strongly disagree	10	9^E
Satisfied with how this school is preparing him/her to make choices about his/her future:
Strongly agree or agree	85	81
Disagree or strongly disagree	9^E	10^E
School has high academic standards:
Strongly agree or agree	82	74
Disagree or strongly disagree	10	13^E
Satisfied with the availability of extracurricular activities at this school:
Strongly agree or agree	79	68
Disagree or strongly disagree	17	22
Child or youth is happy at this school
Strongly agree or agree	92	87
Disagree or strongly disagree	7^E	6^E
Performance at school (parent or guardian's views)
Very well or well	68	67
Average	24	27
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	96
Social activities
Average number of hours used to watch TV, videos or DVDs per day (count)	2.5	2.2
Average number of hours used to play video games per day (count)	1.2	0.9
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)	Alberta (Rural)
Languages	percent²
Ability to speak and understand an Aboriginal language
Able to speak and understand	17	34
Able to understand only	39	38
Neither speak nor understand	42	27
Language group of primary Aboriginal language spoken
Able to speak or understand Cree	32	46
Able to speak or understand an Inuit language	^x	^x
Able to speak or understand an Aboriginal language	67	53
Importance to keep, learn or re-learn an Aboriginal language (parent or guardian's views)
Very important or somewhat important	76	80
Not very important or not important	22	18
Who receive help learning an Aboriginal language from:
Grandparents	28	36
Parents	34	34
Aunts and uncles	5^E	6^E
School teachers	5^E	23

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.