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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 - British Columbia, All provinces

Related 2006 Census data:

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

Healthy living	British Columbia	All provinces
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Healthy living	percent²
General Health
In excellent or very good health	79	79
In good health	18	17
In fair or poor health	3^E	4
Activity limitations
With one or more activity limitations:
Yes, sometimes	8	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	52	50
With one or more severe chronic health conditions	41	43
With allergies	18	16
With asthma	13	14
With a heart condition	^x	2
With ear infections or ear problems	8	8
With a hearing impairment	2^E	3
With a visual impairment	9	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	53	55
Another medical specialist	32	33
Community health nurse, public health nurse or nurse practitioner	20	21
Traditional Aboriginal healer	7^E	7
Dental care
Children and youth who last received dental care:
Within the last 12 months	86	81
More than 1 year ago	13	16
Children and youth in need of dental treatment	35	29
Of those in need of dental treatment:
Arrangements have been made for dental treatment	52	52
Arrangements have not been made for dental treatment	45	42
Education and social activities	British Columbia	All provinces
Education and social activities	percent²
School attendance
Currently attending school	98	98
Attended an early childhood development or preschool program	67	62
Attended Aboriginal specific early childhood development or preschool program	35	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	94	91
Disagree or strongly disagree	3^E	6
School provides enough information about his/her attendance:
Strongly agree or agree	96	95
Disagree or strongly disagree	2^E	3
School provides enough information about his/her behaviour at school:
Strongly agree or agree	92	90
Disagree or strongly disagree	5^E	7
Satisfied with the level of discipline at this school:
Strongly agree or agree	85	85
Disagree or strongly disagree	11	11
Feel the presence of drugs and alcohol is a problem at this school:
Strongly agree or agree	13	11
Disagree or strongly disagree	82	81
Feel violence is a problem at this school
Strongly agree or agree	18	21
Disagree or strongly disagree	78	74
Satisfied with the quality of teaching at this school
Strongly agree or agree	90	89
Disagree or strongly disagree	7	8
Child is challenged to work at his/her full potential
Strongly agree or agree	87	86
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	84	83
Disagree or strongly disagree	11	10
School has high academic standards:
Strongly agree or agree	82	81
Disagree or strongly disagree	12	11
Satisfied with the availability of extracurricular activities at this school:
Strongly agree or agree	79	77
Disagree or strongly disagree	16	18
Child or youth is happy at this school
Strongly agree or agree	94	92
Disagree or strongly disagree	4^E	6
Performance at school (parent or guardian's views)
Very well or well	67	68
Average	26	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	98	97
Social activities
Average number of hours used to watch TV, videos or DVDs per day (count)	2.3	2.3
Average number of hours used to play video games per day (count)	0.8	0.9
How often child or youth plays sports:
Never or less than once per week	33	34
One or more times per week	65	65
Languages	British Columbia	All provinces
Languages	percent²
Ability to speak and understand an Aboriginal language
Able to speak and understand	24	22
Able to understand only	39	37
Neither speak nor understand	36	39
Language group of primary Aboriginal language spoken
Able to speak or understand Cree	9^E	30
Able to speak or understand an Inuit language	^x	1^E
Able to speak or understand an Aboriginal language	91	70
Importance to keep, learn or re-learn an Aboriginal language (parent or guardian's views)
Very important or somewhat important	77	77
Not very important or not important	21	21
Who receive help learning an Aboriginal language from:
Grandparents	26	28
Parents	32	34
Aunts and uncles	8	8
School teachers	16	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.