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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 - Métis Identity
Step 3: Geography - Alberta (Rural), Canada

Related 2006 Census data:

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

Healthy living	Alberta (Rural)	Canada
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	Total	Total	Male	Female
	percent²
General Health
In excellent or very good health	83	84	83	84
In good health	14	13	13	12
In fair or poor health	3^E	3	3	3
Activity limitations
With one or more activity limitations:
Yes, sometimes	7^E	9	10	8
Yes, often	7^E	9	11	7
No, does not have any difficulty	86	82	79	84
Medical conditions (diagnosed by a health professional)
With one or more health conditions	44	50	53	46
With one or more severe chronic health conditions	33	42	46	37
With allergies	17	19	21	18
With asthma	13	15	18	12
With a heart condition	^x	2	2	2
With ear infections or ear problems	6^E	9	9	9
With a hearing impairment	^x	3	3	3
With a visual impairment	10	11	11	12
Physical injuries
Injured in last 12 months	13	12	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	46	54	56	51
Another medical specialist	31	32	32	32
Community health nurse, public health nurse or nurse practitioner	24	18	17	18
Traditional Aboriginal healer	^x	2	2	2
Dental care
Children and youth who last received dental care:
Within the last 12 months	81	82	81	82
More than 1 year ago	17	16	16	15
Children and youth in need of dental treatment	30	29	28	29
Of those in need of dental treatment:
Arrangements have been made for dental treatment	44	51	50	52
Arrangements have not been made for dental treatment	52	44	44	43
Education and social activities	Alberta (Rural)	Canada
	Total	Total	Male	Female
	percent²
School attendance
Currently attending school	98	99	98	99
Attended an early childhood development or preschool program	65	63	64	63
Attended Aboriginal specific early childhood development or preschool program	27	14	14	13
Absence from school:
Absent or missed school for a period of 2 or more weeks in a row	3^E	3	2	3
Attributes of the school (parent or guardian's views)
School provides enough information about his/her academic progress:
Strongly agree or agree	91	92	92	92
Disagree or strongly disagree	7^E	6	7	6
School provides enough information about his/her attendance:
Strongly agree or agree	96	96	96	96
Disagree or strongly disagree	^x	3	3	3
School provides enough information about his/her behaviour at school:
Strongly agree or agree	91	91	91	91
Disagree or strongly disagree	6^E	7	7	7
Satisfied with the level of discipline at this school:
Strongly agree or agree	83	85	85	85
Disagree or strongly disagree	15	12	12	12
Feel the presence of drugs and alcohol is a problem at this school:
Strongly agree or agree	15	13	13	13
Disagree or strongly disagree	78	81	82	81
Feel violence is a problem at this school
Strongly agree or agree	24	19	20	17
Disagree or strongly disagree	72	78	77	79
Satisfied with the quality of teaching at this school
Strongly agree or agree	84	90	90	90
Disagree or strongly disagree	14	8	9	7
Child is challenged to work at his/her full potential
Strongly agree or agree	85	87	86	88
Disagree or strongly disagree	14	11	12	10
Satisfied with how this school is preparing him/her to make choices about his/her future:
Strongly agree or agree	82	84	83	85
Disagree or strongly disagree	12	11	12	10
School has high academic standards:
Strongly agree or agree	78	83	82	83
Disagree or strongly disagree	14	12	13	11
Satisfied with the availability of extracurricular activities at this school:
Strongly agree or agree	70	76	76	77
Disagree or strongly disagree	27	20	20	20
Child or youth is happy at this school
Strongly agree or agree	89	93	92	93
Disagree or strongly disagree	9^E	6	6	5
Performance at school (parent or guardian's views)
Very well or well	72	73	69	77
Average	24	21	25	18
Poorly or very poorly	^x	5	5	4
Importance of graduating from high school (parent or guardian's views)
High school graduation is very important	97	97	97	97
Social activities
Average number of hours used to watch TV, videos or DVDs per day (count)	2.0	2.0	2.0	2.0
Average number of hours used to play video games per day (count)	0.8	0.8	1.1	0.4
How often child or youth plays sports:
Never or less than once per week	29	29	26	31
One or more times per week	70	70	73	68
Languages	Alberta (Rural)	Canada
	Total	Total	Male	Female
	percent²
Ability to speak and understand an Aboriginal language
Able to speak and understand	16	7	6	7
Able to understand only	33	21	20	22
Neither speak nor understand	50	71	72	70
Language group of primary Aboriginal language spoken
Able to speak or understand Cree	46	36	35	37
Able to speak or understand an Inuit language	^x	^x	^x	^x
Able to speak or understand an Aboriginal language	53	63	64	63
Importance to keep, learn or re-learn an Aboriginal language (parent or guardian's views)
Very important or somewhat important	59	51	50	52
Not very important or not important	38	47	47	46
Who receive help learning an Aboriginal language from:
Grandparents	22	11	11	12
Parents	21	13	12	13
Aunts and uncles	5^E	2	2	3
School teachers	17	7	7	6

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.