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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 - North American Indian Identity (living off-reserve)
Step 3: Geography - British Columbia (Rural), Canada

Related 2006 Census data:

Aboriginal population showing population counts and percentage change - British Columbia (Rural) or Canada
Aboriginal Population Profile - Canada

Healthy living	British Columbia (Rural)	Canada
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	Total	Total	Male	Female
	percent²
General Health
In excellent or very good health	84	81	79	83
In good health	13	16	17	14
In fair or poor health	^x	4	4	3
Activity limitations
With one or more activity limitations:
Yes, sometimes	7^E	10	11	9
Yes, often	8^E	10	12	7
No, does not have any difficulty	85	80	77	84
Medical conditions (diagnosed by a health professional)
With one or more health conditions	44	51	55	47
With one or more severe chronic health conditions	34	43	48	37
With allergies	19	18	19	17
With asthma	12^E	15	17	12
With a heart condition	^x	2	2	2
With ear infections or ear problems	5^E	9	9	8
With a hearing impairment	^x	3	3	2
With a visual impairment	7^E	11	11	12
Physical injuries
Injured in last 12 months	11	11	12	10
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	46	57	59	54
Another medical specialist	30	32	32	31
Community health nurse, public health nurse or nurse practitioner	18	21	21	21
Traditional Aboriginal healer	5^E	6	7	6
Dental care
Children and youth who last received dental care:
Within the last 12 months	83	82	80	83
More than 1 year ago	15^E	15	16	14
Children and youth in need of dental treatment	36	29	28	30
Of those in need of dental treatment:
Arrangements have been made for dental treatment	53	52	51	54
Arrangements have not been made for dental treatment	45	41	43	39
Education and social activities	British Columbia (Rural)	Canada
	Total	Total	Male	Female
	percent²
School attendance
Currently attending school	96	98	98	98
Attended an early childhood development or preschool program	64	61	60	62
Attended Aboriginal specific early childhood development or preschool program	23	27	27	27
Absence from school:
Absent or missed school for a period of 2 or more weeks in a row	6^E	4	4	3
Attributes of the school (parent or guardian's views)
School provides enough information about his/her academic progress:
Strongly agree or agree	91	91	91	91
Disagree or strongly disagree	5^E	7	6	7
School provides enough information about his/her attendance:
Strongly agree or agree	94	95	95	95
Disagree or strongly disagree	^x	3	3	3
School provides enough information about his/her behaviour at school:
Strongly agree or agree	93	90	91	89
Disagree or strongly disagree	4^E	7	6	8
Satisfied with the level of discipline at this school:
Strongly agree or agree	87	84	84	84
Disagree or strongly disagree	9^E	12	12	12
Feel the presence of drugs and alcohol is a problem at this school:
Strongly agree or agree	19	12	11	12
Disagree or strongly disagree	75	82	82	81
Feel violence is a problem at this school
Strongly agree or agree	16^E	21	21	21
Disagree or strongly disagree	78	74	74	74
Satisfied with the quality of teaching at this school
Strongly agree or agree	87	88	88	88
Disagree or strongly disagree	8^E	9	9	9
Child is challenged to work at his/her full potential
Strongly agree or agree	84	85	84	85
Disagree or strongly disagree	13^E	12	12	12
Satisfied with how this school is preparing him/her to make choices about his/her future:
Strongly agree or agree	84	82	82	83
Disagree or strongly disagree	10^E	11	12	11
School has high academic standards:
Strongly agree or agree	80	80	81	79
Disagree or strongly disagree	14^E	13	12	14
Satisfied with the availability of extracurricular activities at this school:
Strongly agree or agree	74	74	73	75
Disagree or strongly disagree	23	21	22	20
Child or youth is happy at this school
Strongly agree or agree	93	91	90	92
Disagree or strongly disagree	4^E	7	7	6
Performance at school (parent or guardian's views)
Very well or well	71	69	64	75
Average	25	24	28	19
Poorly or very poorly	^x	5	6	4
Importance of graduating from high school (parent or guardian's views)
High school graduation is very important	97	97	96	98
Social activities
Average number of hours used to watch TV, videos or DVDs per day (count)	1.9	2.2	2.3	2.1
Average number of hours used to play video games per day (count)	0.7	0.9	1.3	0.4
How often child or youth plays sports:
Never or less than once per week	29	33	28	38
One or more times per week	69	66	70	61
Languages	British Columbia (Rural)	Canada
	Total	Total	Male	Female
	percent²
Ability to speak and understand an Aboriginal language
Able to speak and understand	18	17	16	18
Able to understand only	31	32	31	32
Neither speak nor understand	50	49	51	48
Language group of primary Aboriginal language spoken
Able to speak or understand Cree	^x	27	26	27
Able to speak or understand an Inuit language	^x	^F	^x	^x
Able to speak or understand an Aboriginal language	93	73	73	73
Importance to keep, learn or re-learn an Aboriginal language (parent or guardian's views)
Very important or somewhat important	64	69	68	70
Not very important or not important	34	28	29	28
Who receive help learning an Aboriginal language from:
Grandparents	17	23	23	23
Parents	24	27	26	28
Aunts and uncles	^x	7	7	7
School teachers	17	11	11	11

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.

Source: Statistics Canada, Aboriginal Peoples Survey, 2006.