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Table 21
Percentage of First Nations and non-Aboriginal populations living in crowded dwellings, Canada, 1996 and 20061
Population Percentage living in crowded dwellings2
1996 2006
Notes:
  1. Data have been adjusted to account for incompletely enumerated reserves in 1996 and 2006.
  2. 'Crowding' is defined as more than one person per room. Not counted as rooms are bathrooms, halls, vestibules and rooms used solely for business purposes.
Sources: Statistics Canada, censuses of population, 1996 and 2006.
Total - First Nations population 20 15
On reserve 33 26
Off reserve 10 7
Urban 8 6
Rural 17 10
Total - Non-Aboriginal population 3 3
Urban 3 3
Rural 2 1