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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, All provinces

Related 2006 Census data:

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

Healthy living	Alberta	All provinces
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Healthy living	percent²
General Health
In excellent or very good health	84	84
In good health	13	13
In fair or poor health	3	3
Activity limitations
With one or more activity limitations:
Yes, sometimes	9	9
Yes, often	9	9
No, does not have any difficulty	82	82
Medical conditions (diagnosed by a health professional)
With one or more health conditions	49	50
With one or more severe chronic health conditions	41	42
With allergies	19	19
With asthma	16	15
With a heart condition	3^E	2
With ear infections or ear problems	8	9
With a hearing impairment	2^E	3
With a visual impairment	12	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	53	54
Another medical specialist	34	32
Community health nurse, public health nurse or nurse practitioner	19	18
Traditional Aboriginal healer	3^E	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	32	29
Of those in need of dental treatment:
Arrangements have been made for dental treatment	51	51
Arrangements have not been made for dental treatment	45	44
Education and social activities	Alberta	All provinces
Education and social activities	percent²
School attendance
Currently attending school	98	99
Attended an early childhood development or preschool program	64	63
Attended Aboriginal specific early childhood development or preschool program	17	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	93	92
Disagree or strongly disagree	5	6
School provides enough information about his/her attendance:
Strongly agree or agree	97	96
Disagree or strongly disagree	2^E	3
School provides enough information about his/her behaviour at school:
Strongly agree or agree	92	91
Disagree or strongly disagree	6	7
Satisfied with the level of discipline at this school:
Strongly agree or agree	83	85
Disagree or strongly disagree	13	12
Feel the presence of drugs and alcohol is a problem at this school:
Strongly agree or agree	13	13
Disagree or strongly disagree	80	81
Feel violence is a problem at this school
Strongly agree or agree	18	18
Disagree or strongly disagree	79	78
Satisfied with the quality of teaching at this school
Strongly agree or agree	89	90
Disagree or strongly disagree	9	8
Child is challenged to work at his/her full potential
Strongly agree or agree	87	87
Disagree or strongly disagree	11	11
Satisfied with how this school is preparing him/her to make choices about his/her future:
Strongly agree or agree	86	84
Disagree or strongly disagree	10	11
School has high academic standards:
Strongly agree or agree	82	83
Disagree or strongly disagree	11	12
Satisfied with the availability of extracurricular activities at this school:
Strongly agree or agree	74	76
Disagree or strongly disagree	23	20
Child or youth is happy at this school
Strongly agree or agree	91	93
Disagree or strongly disagree	8	6
Performance at school (parent or guardian's views)
Very well or well	71	73
Average	23	21
Poorly or very poorly	4	5
Importance of graduating from high school (parent or guardian's views)
High school graduation is very important	98	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	31	29
One or more times per week	68	70
Languages	Alberta	All provinces
Languages	percent²
Ability to speak and understand an Aboriginal language
Able to speak and understand	9	6
Able to understand only	27	21
Neither speak nor understand	63	71
Language group of primary Aboriginal language spoken
Able to speak or understand Cree	45	37
Able to speak or understand an Inuit language	^x	^x
Able to speak or understand an Aboriginal language	54	62
Importance to keep, learn or re-learn an Aboriginal language (parent or guardian's views)
Very important or somewhat important	52	51
Not very important or not important	46	47
Who receive help learning an Aboriginal language from:
Grandparents	17	11
Parents	16	13
Aunts and uncles	3^E	2
School teachers	8	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.