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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: Treaty or Registered Indian (living off-reserve)
Step 3: Geography - Manitoba, Alberta (Rural)

Related 2006 Census data:

Aboriginal population showing population counts and percentage change - Manitoba or Alberta (Rural)
Aboriginal Population Profile - Manitoba

Education	Manitoba	Alberta (Rural)
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Education	percent²
School enrolment
Currently attending elementary or high school or a high school equivalency program	21	15^E
Of those attending elementary or high school or a high school equivalency program:
Full-time	88	88
Part-time, day or evening	11^E	^x
Currently taking a High School Equivalency program	17^E	^x
Highest grade completed at elementary or high school (excluding kindergarten):
No schooling	^x	^x
One to six	4^E	6^E
Seven or eight	14	13^E
Nine	11	11^E
Ten	16	14^E
Eleven	16	15
Twelve or thirteen	36	37
High school
Graduated from high school³	34	34
Did not finish high school³	18	19
Completed high school through high school equivalency program (GED)³	9	8^E
Median age when last in elementary or high school (years)	15.9	15.8
Aboriginal culture at elementary or high school level
At school had Aboriginal teachers or teachers' aides	30	30
At school had teachers or teachers' aides who taught in an Aboriginal language	14	19
Taught an Aboriginal language in elementary or high school	12	12^E
Postsecondary schooling
Ever taken some education above the high school level	48	45
Did not finish postsecondary schooling³	27	34
Currently attending education above the high school level³	19	17^E
Of those attending postsecondary education:
Full-time	51	^x
Part-time, day or evening	33^E	52^E
Type of educational institution:
University³	44	33
Community college or CEGEP³	44	57
Publicly-funded technical institute, or a trade/vocational school³	19	24^E
Private business school or private training institute³	13	13^E
Another school above high school³	12	10^E
Correspondence or distance education:
Taken any post-secondary courses by correspondence or distance education	16	16^E
Financial assistance:
Applied for financial assistance for postsecondary studies	60	72
Received financial assistance for postsecondary studies	85	80
Highest level of schooling ever completed
No schooling	^x	^x
Less than high school diploma	43	42
High school diploma or High school equivalency	13	14^E
Some trade/vocational school	^x	^x
Some other non-university institution	6	10^E
Some university	7	4^E
Diploma or certificate from trade school or registered apprenticeship program	7^E	7^E
Diploma or certificate from other non-university institution	13	12^E
University certificate or diploma below bachelor's level	2^E	^x
Bachelor's degree	5	^x
Master's degree or university certificate or diploma above bachelor's level, degree in medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine or optometry, earned doctorate	^x	^x
Languages	Manitoba	Alberta (Rural)
Languages	percent²
Ability to speak and understand an Aboriginal language
Able to speak or understand an Aboriginal language	80	87
Able to understand his/her primary Aboriginal language:
very well or relatively well	46	55
with effort or a few words	53	44
Able to speak his/her primary Aboriginal language:
very well or relatively well	63	58
with effort or a few words	37	38
Access to Services in Primary Aboriginal Language
Have access to health services in his/her primary Aboriginal language³	40	42
Have access to justice/ legal/ policing services in his/her primary Aboriginal language³	33	28
Have access to social and employment services in his/her primary Aboriginal language³	43	43
Have access to other services in his/her primary Aboriginal language³	51	57
Importance to keep, learn or re-learn an Aboriginal language
Very important	56	59
Somewhat important	23	23
Not very important or not important	20	16
No opinion	^x	^x
Labour activity	Manitoba	Alberta (Rural)
Labour activity	percent²
Harvesting country food
Hunted in the past 12 months	25	51
Fished in the past 12 months	42	54
Gathered wild plants (berries, sweet grass, etc.) in the past 12 months	42	58
Trapped in the past 12 months	10^E	24^E
Employment status
Worked for pay or in self-employment, or temporarily absent from job	51	58
Respondent does not have job, is looking for work	10	4^E
Respondent does not have job, is not looking for work	37	37
Income	Manitoba	Alberta (Rural)
Income	percent²
Sources of income (Year ending December 31, 2005)
Paid employment or self-employment	61	63
Employment insurance	13	10^E
Old age security pension, Guaranteed Income Supplement or Spouse's Allowance from the Federal Government	8^E	10^E
Canada or Quebec Pension Plans	9	8^E
Social assistance or welfare benefits	22	9^E
Other sources, for example, other government income, child support, alimony, education allowances, scholarships, northern allowance, interest, or other	29	29
Health	Manitoba	Alberta (Rural)
Health	percent²
General health
Excellent or very good	46	56
Good	32	24
Fair or poor	21	19
Health care
Has seen or talked with in past 12 months for physical, emotional or mental health:
Family doctor or general practitioner	70	65
Traditional healer	14	8^E
Nurse	30	30
Dentist or orthodontist	55	55
Other health professional³	61	63
Medical conditions (diagnosed by a health professional)
With one or more chronic health conditions	55	47
Prediabetes or borderline diabetic³	5^E	4^E
Diabetes	16	10^E
Type 1³	12^E	^x
Type 2³	63	65
Arthritis or rheumatism	19	19
Cancer	^F	^x
Stomach problems or intestinal ulcers	11	9^E
Kidney disease	2^E	^x
Respiratory problem (asthma, chronic bronchitis, emphysema)	17	12
High blood pressure, heart problems or effects of stroke	21	20
Communicable disease (hepatitis, tuberculosis or HIV/AIDS)	5^E	4^E
Other long term health condition	12	10^E
Communication technology	Manitoba	Alberta (Rural)
Communication technology	percent²
Computer and Internet use
Used a computer in previous twelve months	72	67
Used the Internet in previous twelve months	68	59
Housing	Manitoba	Alberta (Rural)
Housing	percent²
Tenure
Home rented by adult or another member of the household	63	23
Home owned by adult or another member of the household	37	77
Features in the home
With cable or satellite television	86	86
With a smoke detector	94	89
With a telephone	91	95
With a stove for cooking	100	99
With electricity	100	98
With a generator	6	20
With cold running water	99	98
With hot running water	99	98
With a flush toilet	99	97
Without a septic tank or sewage system	10	5^E
Requiring special feature(s) for a health condition or problem	12	15
Water supply
Water available to home is not safe to drink	14	21
Reporting water is contaminated at times during the year	16	17

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.