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2006 Profile of Aboriginal Children, Youth and Adults

Step 1: Age group - 15 years of age and over
Step 2: Population - North American Indian Identity (living off-reserve)
Step 3: Geography - Manitoba (Urban), Nova Scotia (Urban)

Related 2006 Census data:

Aboriginal population showing population counts and percentage change - Manitoba (Urban) or Nova Scotia (Urban)

Education	Manitoba (Urban)	Nova Scotia (Urban)
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Education	percent²
School enrolment
Currently attending elementary or high school or a high school equivalency program	23	35
Of those attending elementary or high school or a high school equivalency program:
Full-time	87	86
Part-time, day or evening	^F	^x
Currently taking a High School Equivalency program	18^E	^x
Highest grade completed at elementary or high school (excluding kindergarten):
No schooling	^x	^x
One to six	3^E	^x
Seven or eight	13	8^E
Nine	10	8^E
Ten	17	10^E
Eleven	17	17
Twelve or thirteen	39	53
High school
Graduated from high school³	38	49
Did not finish high school³	19	21
Completed high school through high school equivalency program (GED)³	8	10^E
Median age when last in elementary or high school (years)	16.0	16.0
Aboriginal culture at elementary or high school level
At school had Aboriginal teachers or teachers' aides	29	11^E
At school had teachers or teachers' aides who taught in an Aboriginal language	12	4^E
Taught an Aboriginal language in elementary or high school	11	^x
Postsecondary schooling
Ever taken some education above the high school level	51	65
Did not finish postsecondary schooling³	27	21^E
Currently attending education above the high school level³	20	16^E
Of those attending postsecondary education:
Full-time	55	61
Part-time, day or evening	32^E	^x
Type of educational institution:
University³	48	44
Community college or CEGEP³	43	42
Publicly-funded technical institute, or a trade/vocational school³	19	22
Private business school or private training institute³	13	18^E
Another school above high school³	9^E	14^E
Correspondence or distance education:
Taken any post-secondary courses by correspondence or distance education	18	15^E
Financial assistance:
Applied for financial assistance for postsecondary studies	62	56
Received financial assistance for postsecondary studies	85	91
Highest level of schooling ever completed
No schooling	^x	^x
Less than high school diploma	41	30
High school diploma or High school equivalency	12	11^E
Some trade/vocational school	^x	^x
Some other non-university institution	6^E	5^E
Some university	8	9^E
Diploma or certificate from trade school or registered apprenticeship program	7^E	11^E
Diploma or certificate from other non-university institution	14	18
University certificate or diploma below bachelor's level	3^E	^x
Bachelor's degree	5^E	7^E
Master's degree or university certificate or diploma above bachelor's level, degree in medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine or optometry, earned doctorate	^x	4^E
Languages	Manitoba (Urban)	Nova Scotia (Urban)
Languages	percent²
Ability to speak and understand an Aboriginal language
Able to speak or understand an Aboriginal language	74	33
Able to understand his/her primary Aboriginal language:
very well or relatively well	42	21^E
with effort or a few words	57	76
Able to speak his/her primary Aboriginal language:
very well or relatively well	60	34^E
with effort or a few words	40	63
Access to Services in Primary Aboriginal Language
Have access to health services in his/her primary Aboriginal language³	41	18^E
Have access to justice/ legal/ policing services in his/her primary Aboriginal language³	32	28
Have access to social and employment services in his/her primary Aboriginal language³	44	28
Have access to other services in his/her primary Aboriginal language³	52	33
Importance to keep, learn or re-learn an Aboriginal language
Very important	49	33
Somewhat important	26	32
Not very important or not important	24	33
No opinion	^x	^x
Labour activity	Manitoba (Urban)	Nova Scotia (Urban)
Labour activity	percent²
Harvesting country food
Hunted in the past 12 months	18	21^E
Fished in the past 12 months	38	33
Gathered wild plants (berries, sweet grass, etc.) in the past 12 months	39	45
Trapped in the past 12 months	^F	^x
Employment status
Worked for pay or in self-employment, or temporarily absent from job	51	57
Respondent does not have job, is looking for work	10	6^E
Respondent does not have job, is not looking for work	37	35
Income	Manitoba (Urban)	Nova Scotia (Urban)
Income	percent²
Sources of income (Year ending December 31, 2005)
Paid employment or self-employment	61	67
Employment insurance	11	9^E
Old age security pension, Guaranteed Income Supplement or Spouse's Allowance from the Federal Government	7^E	8^E
Canada or Quebec Pension Plans	8^E	11^E
Social assistance or welfare benefits	21	11^E
Other sources, for example, other government income, child support, alimony, education allowances, scholarships, northern allowance, interest, or other	30	25
Health	Manitoba (Urban)	Nova Scotia (Urban)
Health	percent²
General health
Excellent or very good	47	62
Good	33	21
Fair or poor	20	17
Health care
Has seen or talked with in past 12 months for physical, emotional or mental health:
Family doctor or general practitioner	73	79
Traditional healer	15	6^E
Nurse	29	32
Dentist or orthodontist	56	59
Other health professional³	63	60
Medical conditions (diagnosed by a health professional)
With one or more chronic health conditions	54	63
Prediabetes or borderline diabetic³	5^E	4^E
Diabetes	14	8^E
Type 1³	14^E	^x
Type 2³	63	75
Arthritis or rheumatism	18	26
Cancer	^F	^x
Stomach problems or intestinal ulcers	11	13
Kidney disease	3^E	^x
Respiratory problem (asthma, chronic bronchitis, emphysema)	17	27
High blood pressure, heart problems or effects of stroke	19	24
Communicable disease (hepatitis, tuberculosis or HIV/AIDS)	5^E	^x
Other long term health condition	13	20
Communication technology	Manitoba (Urban)	Nova Scotia (Urban)
Communication technology	percent²
Computer and Internet use
Used a computer in previous twelve months	75	87
Used the Internet in previous twelve months	72	84
Housing	Manitoba (Urban)	Nova Scotia (Urban)
Housing	percent²
Tenure
Home rented by adult or another member of the household	65	46
Home owned by adult or another member of the household	35	54
Features in the home
With cable or satellite television	87	86
With a smoke detector	95	97
With a telephone	91	96
With a stove for cooking	99	100
With electricity	99	99
With a generator	5^E	10^E
With cold running water	99	99
With hot running water	99	99
With a flush toilet	99	99
Without a septic tank or sewage system	12	7^E
Requiring special feature(s) for a health condition or problem	10	10^E
Water supply
Water available to home is not safe to drink	12	13^E
Reporting water is contaminated at times during the year	13	15^E

Symbols:

E use with caution

F too unreliable to be published

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.
3. Updated October 31, 2011.

Source: Statistics Canada, Aboriginal Peoples Survey, 2006.