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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 - British Columbia (Urban), Canada

Related 2006 Census data:

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

Healthy living	British Columbia (Urban)	Canada
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	Total	Total	Male	Female
	percent²
General Health
In excellent or very good health	80	84	83	84
In good health	16	13	13	12
In fair or poor health	4^E	3	3	3
Activity limitations
With one or more activity limitations:
Yes, sometimes	9	9	10	8
Yes, often	12	9	11	7
No, does not have any difficulty	79	82	79	84
Medical conditions (diagnosed by a health professional)
With one or more health conditions	51	50	53	46
With one or more severe chronic health conditions	43	42	46	37
With allergies	21	19	21	18
With asthma	14	15	18	12
With a heart condition	2^E	2	2	2
With ear infections or ear problems	8	9	9	9
With a hearing impairment	2^E	3	3	3
With a visual impairment	12	11	11	12
Physical injuries
Injured in last 12 months	11	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	52	54	56	51
Another medical specialist	32	32	32	32
Community health nurse, public health nurse or nurse practitioner	14	18	17	18
Traditional Aboriginal healer	^F	2	2	2
Dental care
Children and youth who last received dental care:
Within the last 12 months	88	82	81	82
More than 1 year ago	11	16	16	15
Children and youth in need of dental treatment	33	29	28	29
Of those in need of dental treatment:
Arrangements have been made for dental treatment	50	51	50	52
Arrangements have not been made for dental treatment	42	44	44	43
Education and social activities	British Columbia (Urban)	Canada
	Total	Total	Male	Female
	percent²
School attendance
Currently attending school	98	99	98	99
Attended an early childhood development or preschool program	71	63	64	63
Attended Aboriginal specific early childhood development or preschool program	9^E	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	6^E	6	7	6
School provides enough information about his/her attendance:
Strongly agree or agree	95	96	96	96
Disagree or strongly disagree	3^E	3	3	3
School provides enough information about his/her behaviour at school:
Strongly agree or agree	90	91	91	91
Disagree or strongly disagree	7	7	7	7
Satisfied with the level of discipline at this school:
Strongly agree or agree	88	85	85	85
Disagree or strongly disagree	9	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	80	81	82	81
Feel violence is a problem at this school
Strongly agree or agree	16	19	20	17
Disagree or strongly disagree	80	78	77	79
Satisfied with the quality of teaching at this school
Strongly agree or agree	89	90	90	90
Disagree or strongly disagree	9^E	8	9	7
Child is challenged to work at his/her full potential
Strongly agree or agree	84	87	86	88
Disagree or strongly disagree	13	11	12	10
Satisfied with how this school is preparing him/her to make choices about his/her future:
Strongly agree or agree	84	84	83	85
Disagree or strongly disagree	12	11	12	10
School has high academic standards:
Strongly agree or agree	81	83	82	83
Disagree or strongly disagree	12	12	13	11
Satisfied with the availability of extracurricular activities at this school:
Strongly agree or agree	77	76	76	77
Disagree or strongly disagree	19	20	20	20
Child or youth is happy at this school
Strongly agree or agree	93	93	92	93
Disagree or strongly disagree	6^E	6	6	5
Performance at school (parent or guardian's views)
Very well or well	71	73	69	77
Average	20	21	25	18
Poorly or very poorly	7	5	5	4
Importance of graduating from high school (parent or guardian's views)
High school graduation is very important	96	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)	0.7	0.8	1.1	0.4
How often child or youth plays sports:
Never or less than once per week	30	29	26	31
One or more times per week	70	70	73	68
Languages	British Columbia (Urban)	Canada
	Total	Total	Male	Female
	percent²
Ability to speak and understand an Aboriginal language
Able to speak and understand	6^E	7	6	7
Able to understand only	20	21	20	22
Neither speak nor understand	73	71	72	70
Language group of primary Aboriginal language spoken
Able to speak or understand Cree	27^E	36	35	37
Able to speak or understand an Inuit language	^x	^x	^x	^x
Able to speak or understand an Aboriginal language	73	63	64	63
Importance to keep, learn or re-learn an Aboriginal language (parent or guardian's views)
Very important or somewhat important	49	51	50	52
Not very important or not important	49	47	47	46
Who receive help learning an Aboriginal language from:
Grandparents	9	11	11	12
Parents	9	13	12	13
Aunts and uncles	^x	2	2	3
School teachers	6^E	7	7	6

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.