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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 - Manitoba, All provinces

Related 2006 Census data:

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

Healthy living	Manitoba	All provinces
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Healthy living	percent²
General Health
In excellent or very good health	75	79
In good health	20	17
In fair or poor health	5^E	4
Activity limitations
With one or more activity limitations:
Yes, sometimes	9	9
Yes, often	10	9
No, does not have any difficulty	81	81
Medical conditions (diagnosed by a health professional)
With one or more health conditions	47	50
With one or more severe chronic health conditions	42	43
With allergies	13	16
With asthma	16	14
With a heart condition	2^E	2
With ear infections or ear problems	8	8
With a hearing impairment	3^E	3
With a visual impairment	11	11
Physical injuries
Injured in last 12 months	13	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	57	55
Another medical specialist	31	33
Community health nurse, public health nurse or nurse practitioner	21	21
Traditional Aboriginal healer	5^E	7
Dental care
Children and youth who last received dental care:
Within the last 12 months	72	81
More than 1 year ago	24	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	47	52
Arrangements have not been made for dental treatment	45	42
Education and social activities	Manitoba	All provinces
Education and social activities	percent²
School attendance
Currently attending school	97	98
Attended an early childhood development or preschool program	56	62
Attended Aboriginal specific early childhood development or preschool program	29	34
Absence from school:
Absent or missed school for a period of 2 or more weeks in a row	4^E	4
Attributes of the school (parent or guardian's views)
School provides enough information about his/her academic progress:
Strongly agree or agree	92	91
Disagree or strongly disagree	6^E	6
School provides enough information about his/her attendance:
Strongly agree or agree	95	95
Disagree or strongly disagree	3^E	3
School provides enough information about his/her behaviour at school:
Strongly agree or agree	92	90
Disagree or strongly disagree	6^E	7
Satisfied with the level of discipline at this school:
Strongly agree or agree	85	85
Disagree or strongly disagree	12	11
Feel the presence of drugs and alcohol is a problem at this school:
Strongly agree or agree	14	11
Disagree or strongly disagree	79	81
Feel violence is a problem at this school
Strongly agree or agree	25	21
Disagree or strongly disagree	70	74
Satisfied with the quality of teaching at this school
Strongly agree or agree	90	89
Disagree or strongly disagree	8	8
Child is challenged to work at his/her full potential
Strongly agree or agree	87	86
Disagree or strongly disagree	10	11
Satisfied with how this school is preparing him/her to make choices about his/her future:
Strongly agree or agree	85	83
Disagree or strongly disagree	9	10
School has high academic standards:
Strongly agree or agree	81	81
Disagree or strongly disagree	10	11
Satisfied with the availability of extracurricular activities at this school:
Strongly agree or agree	78	77
Disagree or strongly disagree	18	18
Child or youth is happy at this school
Strongly agree or agree	91	92
Disagree or strongly disagree	7	6
Performance at school (parent or guardian's views)
Very well or well	69	68
Average	24	25
Poorly or very poorly	5^E	5
Importance of graduating from high school (parent or guardian's views)
High school graduation is very important	96	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	37	34
One or more times per week	60	65
Languages	Manitoba	All provinces
Languages	percent²
Ability to speak and understand an Aboriginal language
Able to speak and understand	17	22
Able to understand only	39	37
Neither speak nor understand	41	39
Language group of primary Aboriginal language spoken
Able to speak or understand Cree	35	30
Able to speak or understand an Inuit language	^x	1^E
Able to speak or understand an Aboriginal language	65	70
Importance to keep, learn or re-learn an Aboriginal language (parent or guardian's views)
Very important or somewhat important	78	77
Not very important or not important	20	21
Who receive help learning an Aboriginal language from:
Grandparents	28	28
Parents	33	34
Aunts and uncles	6^E	8
School teachers	7	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.