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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 - Yukon, British Columbia (Urban)

Related 2006 Census data:

Aboriginal population showing population counts and percentage change - Yukon or British Columbia (Urban)
Aboriginal Population Profile - Yukon

Healthy living	Yukon	British Columbia (Urban)
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Healthy living	percent²
General Health
In excellent or very good health	85	77
In good health	14^E	20
In fair or poor health	^x	3^E
Activity limitations
With one or more activity limitations:
Yes, sometimes	8^E	8^E
Yes, often	6^E	11
No, does not have any difficulty	85	81
Medical conditions (diagnosed by a health professional)
With one or more health conditions	42	53
With one or more severe chronic health conditions	31	42
With allergies	19	18
With asthma	9^E	13
With a heart condition	^x	^x
With ear infections or ear problems	10^E	9
With a hearing impairment	^x	3^E
With a visual impairment	^x	10
Physical injuries
Injured in last 12 months	9^E	14
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	44	54
Another medical specialist	19	32
Community health nurse, public health nurse or nurse practitioner	38	20
Traditional Aboriginal healer	9^E	7^E
Dental care
Children and youth who last received dental care:
Within the last 12 months	89	86
More than 1 year ago	9^E	13
Children and youth in need of dental treatment	38	35
Of those in need of dental treatment:
Arrangements have been made for dental treatment	56	50
Arrangements have not been made for dental treatment	27^E	47
Education and social activities	Yukon	British Columbia (Urban)
Education and social activities	percent²
School attendance
Currently attending school	98	98
Attended an early childhood development or preschool program	59	68
Attended Aboriginal specific early childhood development or preschool program	28	36
Absence from school:
Absent or missed school for a period of 2 or more weeks in a row	^x	4^E
Attributes of the school (parent or guardian's views)
School provides enough information about his/her academic progress:
Strongly agree or agree	82	94
Disagree or strongly disagree	12^E	3^E
School provides enough information about his/her attendance:
Strongly agree or agree	86	96
Disagree or strongly disagree	^x	2^E
School provides enough information about his/her behaviour at school:
Strongly agree or agree	87	92
Disagree or strongly disagree	7^E	5^E
Satisfied with the level of discipline at this school:
Strongly agree or agree	75	84
Disagree or strongly disagree	13^E	11
Feel the presence of drugs and alcohol is a problem at this school:
Strongly agree or agree	16^E	12
Disagree or strongly disagree	73	83
Feel violence is a problem at this school
Strongly agree or agree	23	17
Disagree or strongly disagree	66	79
Satisfied with the quality of teaching at this school
Strongly agree or agree	75	90
Disagree or strongly disagree	17^E	7^E
Child is challenged to work at his/her full potential
Strongly agree or agree	74	86
Disagree or strongly disagree	18	11
Satisfied with how this school is preparing him/her to make choices about his/her future:
Strongly agree or agree	67	84
Disagree or strongly disagree	15^E	11
School has high academic standards:
Strongly agree or agree	61	82
Disagree or strongly disagree	27	11
Satisfied with the availability of extracurricular activities at this school:
Strongly agree or agree	70	80
Disagree or strongly disagree	22	15
Child or youth is happy at this school
Strongly agree or agree	80	94
Disagree or strongly disagree	13^E	3^E
Performance at school (parent or guardian's views)
Very well or well	58	65
Average	27	26
Poorly or very poorly	9^E	6^E
Importance of graduating from high school (parent or guardian's views)
High school graduation is very important	97	98
Social activities
Average number of hours used to watch TV, videos or DVDs per day (count)	2.4	2.3
Average number of hours used to play video games per day (count)	1.1	0.8
How often child or youth plays sports:
Never or less than once per week	28	33
One or more times per week	71	66
Languages	Yukon	British Columbia (Urban)
Languages	percent²
Ability to speak and understand an Aboriginal language
Able to speak and understand	41	24
Able to understand only	43	40
Neither speak nor understand	14^E	35
Language group of primary Aboriginal language spoken
Able to speak or understand Cree	^x	^x
Able to speak or understand an Inuit language	^x	^x
Able to speak or understand an Aboriginal language	100	91
Importance to keep, learn or re-learn an Aboriginal language (parent or guardian's views)
Very important or somewhat important	90	78
Not very important or not important	10^E	21
Who receive help learning an Aboriginal language from:
Grandparents	44	27
Parents	22	32
Aunts and uncles	10^E	9
School teachers	60	15

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.