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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 - Alberta (Rural), All provinces

Related 2006 Census data:

Aboriginal population showing population counts and percentage change - Alberta (Rural) or All provinces

Healthy living	Alberta (Rural)	All provinces
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Healthy living	percent²
General Health
In excellent or very good health	83	84
In good health	14	13
In fair or poor health	3^E	3
Activity limitations
With one or more activity limitations:
Yes, sometimes	7^E	9
Yes, often	7^E	9
No, does not have any difficulty	86	82
Medical conditions (diagnosed by a health professional)
With one or more health conditions	44	50
With one or more severe chronic health conditions	33	42
With allergies	17	19
With asthma	13	15
With a heart condition	^x	2
With ear infections or ear problems	6^E	9
With a hearing impairment	^x	3
With a visual impairment	10	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	46	54
Another medical specialist	31	32
Community health nurse, public health nurse or nurse practitioner	24	18
Traditional Aboriginal healer	^x	2
Dental care
Children and youth who last received dental care:
Within the last 12 months	81	82
More than 1 year ago	17	16
Children and youth in need of dental treatment	30	29
Of those in need of dental treatment:
Arrangements have been made for dental treatment	44	51
Arrangements have not been made for dental treatment	52	44
Education and social activities	Alberta (Rural)	All provinces
Education and social activities	percent²
School attendance
Currently attending school	98	99
Attended an early childhood development or preschool program	65	63
Attended Aboriginal specific early childhood development or preschool program	27	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	7^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	6^E	7
Satisfied with the level of discipline at this school:
Strongly agree or agree	83	85
Disagree or strongly disagree	15	12
Feel the presence of drugs and alcohol is a problem at this school:
Strongly agree or agree	15	13
Disagree or strongly disagree	78	81
Feel violence is a problem at this school
Strongly agree or agree	24	18
Disagree or strongly disagree	72	78
Satisfied with the quality of teaching at this school
Strongly agree or agree	84	90
Disagree or strongly disagree	14	8
Child is challenged to work at his/her full potential
Strongly agree or agree	85	87
Disagree or strongly disagree	14	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	12	11
School has high academic standards:
Strongly agree or agree	78	83
Disagree or strongly disagree	14	12
Satisfied with the availability of extracurricular activities at this school:
Strongly agree or agree	70	76
Disagree or strongly disagree	27	20
Child or youth is happy at this school
Strongly agree or agree	89	93
Disagree or strongly disagree	9^E	6
Performance at school (parent or guardian's views)
Very well or well	72	73
Average	24	21
Poorly or very poorly	^x	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)	0.8	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	Alberta (Rural)	All provinces
Languages	percent²
Ability to speak and understand an Aboriginal language
Able to speak and understand	16	6
Able to understand only	33	21
Neither speak nor understand	50	71
Language group of primary Aboriginal language spoken
Able to speak or understand Cree	46	37
Able to speak or understand an Inuit language	^x	^x
Able to speak or understand an Aboriginal language	53	62
Importance to keep, learn or re-learn an Aboriginal language (parent or guardian's views)
Very important or somewhat important	59	51
Not very important or not important	38	47
Who receive help learning an Aboriginal language from:
Grandparents	22	11
Parents	21	13
Aunts and uncles	5^E	2
School teachers	17	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.