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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 - Northwest Territories, All provinces

Related 2006 Census data:

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

Healthy living	Northwest Territories	All provinces
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Healthy living	percent²
General Health
In excellent or very good health	77	79
In good health	21	17
In fair or poor health	^x	4
Activity limitations
With one or more activity limitations:
Yes, sometimes	6^E	9
Yes, often	5^E	9
No, does not have any difficulty	90	81
Medical conditions (diagnosed by a health professional)
With one or more health conditions	32	50
With one or more severe chronic health conditions	26	43
With allergies	11	16
With asthma	5^E	14
With a heart condition	^x	2
With ear infections or ear problems	9^E	8
With a hearing impairment	4^E	3
With a visual impairment	4^E	11
Physical injuries
Injured in last 12 months	9^E	11
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	36	55
Another medical specialist	14	33
Community health nurse, public health nurse or nurse practitioner	42	21
Traditional Aboriginal healer	5^E	7
Dental care
Children and youth who last received dental care:
Within the last 12 months	79	81
More than 1 year ago	14	16
Children and youth in need of dental treatment	29	29
Of those in need of dental treatment:
Arrangements have been made for dental treatment	44	52
Arrangements have not been made for dental treatment	38	42
Education and social activities	Northwest Territories	All provinces
Education and social activities	percent²
School attendance
Currently attending school	99	98
Attended an early childhood development or preschool program	71	62
Attended Aboriginal specific early childhood development or preschool program	68	34
Absence from school:
Absent or missed school for a period of 2 or more weeks in a row	5^E	4
Attributes of the school (parent or guardian's views)
School provides enough information about his/her academic progress:
Strongly agree or agree	84	91
Disagree or strongly disagree	10^E	6
School provides enough information about his/her attendance:
Strongly agree or agree	86	95
Disagree or strongly disagree	7^E	3
School provides enough information about his/her behaviour at school:
Strongly agree or agree	84	90
Disagree or strongly disagree	9^E	7
Satisfied with the level of discipline at this school:
Strongly agree or agree	70	85
Disagree or strongly disagree	19	11
Feel the presence of drugs and alcohol is a problem at this school:
Strongly agree or agree	18	11
Disagree or strongly disagree	64	81
Feel violence is a problem at this school
Strongly agree or agree	28	21
Disagree or strongly disagree	61	74
Satisfied with the quality of teaching at this school
Strongly agree or agree	78	89
Disagree or strongly disagree	14	8
Child is challenged to work at his/her full potential
Strongly agree or agree	73	86
Disagree or strongly disagree	19	11
Satisfied with how this school is preparing him/her to make choices about his/her future:
Strongly agree or agree	71	83
Disagree or strongly disagree	17	10
School has high academic standards:
Strongly agree or agree	63	81
Disagree or strongly disagree	25	11
Satisfied with the availability of extracurricular activities at this school:
Strongly agree or agree	71	77
Disagree or strongly disagree	21	18
Child or youth is happy at this school
Strongly agree or agree	83	92
Disagree or strongly disagree	10^E	6
Performance at school (parent or guardian's views)
Very well or well	69	68
Average	23	25
Poorly or very poorly	4^E	5
Importance of graduating from high school (parent or guardian's views)
High school graduation is very important	95	97
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	0.9
How often child or youth plays sports:
Never or less than once per week	43	34
One or more times per week	55	65
Languages	Northwest Territories	All provinces
Languages	percent²
Ability to speak and understand an Aboriginal language
Able to speak and understand	44	22
Able to understand only	39	37
Neither speak nor understand	17	39
Language group of primary Aboriginal language spoken
Able to speak or understand Cree	^x	30
Able to speak or understand an Inuit language	^x	1^E
Able to speak or understand an Aboriginal language	98	70
Importance to keep, learn or re-learn an Aboriginal language (parent or guardian's views)
Very important or somewhat important	88	77
Not very important or not important	11^E	21
Who receive help learning an Aboriginal language from:
Grandparents	48	28
Parents	55	34
Aunts and uncles	18	8
School teachers	64	12

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.