Statistics & Surveys

Highlights the specific cancer sites, mortality and variable incidence rates of several Aboriginal nations.

Findings indicated that family background, postsecondary intention and goal commitment had the greatest influence on retention.

Analysis of responses from 295 individuals gathered during the course of the Experiences of Adopted and Fostered Individuals Project. Results showed that Native Americans were more likely to report problems such as alcohol addiction and recovery, drug recovery, both self-assessed and diagnosed eating disorders, self-harm, and suicidal ideation.

Study conducted 1998-2001 interviewed women prenatally and 6-months port-partum concluded that health care workers should encourage social support, recognition of perceived health, emphasis on benefits and traditional health practices.

Study suggests that bicultural efficacy and cultural orientation should be examined when considering educational orientation of American Indian college students.

Examines the negative and positive aspects of providing elder care, describing low levels of burden and high levels of reward, attributable to cultural attitudes toward elders.

Examines the role of American Indian grandparents who assume custodial responsibility of providing sole care for their grandchildren and the stressors and rewards of providing that care.

Interviews American Indian mental health services clients to see how cultural identity affects their health care experiences.

Examines educators' knowledge and perceptions about learning styles and how this is applied to teaching.

Study identifies misunderstandings about addiction, prevention and treatment as well as cultural strengths that might be incorporated into future programs.

A census based study on role and extent assimilationist policies played in mortality rates of Native American children. Originally presented at Conference on Vulnerable Populations in Paris, July, 2005.

Exploratory article which examines the ways lessons and information on the history and contemporary state of Indian Education are integrated into American Indian/Native American Studies programs and journals.

Study looked at household characteristics most closely associated with variations in incidence in 287 reservations and tribal homelands which had a total of 861 cases. Found that lack of complete indoor plumbing and access to potable water could be an important determinant, as well as relevant information communicated in the language spoken by most tribal members, but that household overcrowding did not appear to be associated with spread of the disease.

Higher Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Arizona, 1982.

Looks at American Indians beliefs, attitudes and experiences in mainstream post-secondary institutions.

Presents findings of a study on Indigenous youth's experiences of physical and psychological abuse.

Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California Los Angeles, 1982.

Descriptive study to assess knowledge level possessed by urban subjects residing in Southern California; includes literature review, statistics on incidence and prevention and treatment programs.

Studied client characteristics, drug use patterns, and treatment needs in an urban treatment centre and the South Central Plains Tribal program. Compares data between clients.

General overview of the importance of literacy and discussion of statistics on level of literacy in the Aboriginal community, and investment necessary to improve skills and returns accrued through education. pt. 2 pt. 3 pt. 4 pt. 5 Total duration: 56:32.

American Indian Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Arizona, 2013.

Documents the differences in allocation, funding parameters, and expenditures of the various jurisdictions.

Genetic testing results suggest that Amerindian and Na-Dene populations have separate origins and are compatible with previous studies indicating the two populations are derived from different migrations from Asia.

Prominent themes identified in responses: sense of vulnerability, commitment to students, lack of external and resource support, and self-identity as Aboriginal peoples and the connection to language.

Study examines disparities in quality of life between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples and how this relates to the housing sector. Report forms part of the Bridges and Foundations Project on Urban Aboriginal Housing.

Thesis (M.Sc.)--Dalhousie University, 2010.

Mathematics and Statistics Thesis (M.Sc.)--Simon Fraser University, 1999.

Looks at data, collected from households in 25 communities, to aid the Government of Nunavut in planning and providing housing.

Education (M.Ed.)--Montana State University, 2006.

Part 1 provides epidemiologic profile of research and surveillance on water-related unintentional injury deaths during 1991-2010 gathered from annual structured reviews of mandatory coroner and police reports for all water-related deaths. Part 2 makes recommendations for drowning prevention from review of national and international research, programmes, and initiatives.

Chapter 14 from book: The Political Economy of Northern Regional Development, Vol. 1 by Gorm Winther, Gérard Duhaime, Jack Cruise, Chris Southcott, Hans Aage ... [et al.]. Discusses gathering data and metadata and building the ArcticStat databank.

Argues that methods of keeping and gathering statistics on crime may cause the nature of violence against Aboriginal women to be misunderstood and that the numbers continue to underestimated.

Compares Yukon Aboriginal government employment and wages to data from across Canada, Northwest Territories and Alaska.

Article in French, abstract in French and English. Argues that the Innu perception of what constitutes suicide differs from the "Western" definition and that data reporting should be reconsidered in light of this discrepancy.

Dietetics and Human Nutrition Thesis (Ph.D.)--McGill University, 2000.

Discussion of a case study done in Frobisher Bay, NWT (now Iqaluit, Nunavut) that centers on the variables of: availability, exposure patterns, preferences in programming and language, knowledge of Canadian facts, perceptions and attitudes towards dominant information sources, leisure activities, and socioeconomic aspirations.

Documents Aboriginal women's stories about their experiences with the health care system and discusses how the results show that Aboriginal women face health problems that are not common to non-Aboriginal women.

Discusses results of survey of First Nations communities in Ontario about their current approach and future requirements and three possible models for delivery of housing programming based on autonomy, accountability, supporting regional coordination, and stable policy development.

Purpose of research project was to develop a governance model based on consultation with the community carried out through both on- and off-reserve surveys and focus groups.

Statistics for levels, change, and percentage change. Source: Statistics Canada, Labour Force Survey, Special Tabulations.

4 statistical tables. Source: Labour Force Survey.