Demographics

Report has information about demographics, reservations and land maps, community issues, educational issues, schools types, Indian Education Legislation and Native organizations.

Research reports an improved academic performance in Native American students whose educational experience has been grounded in heritage languages and cultures. Chapter from ISB4: Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism edited by James Cohen, Kara T. McAlister, Kellie Rolstad, Jeff MacSwan.

Compares the different types of caregiving support offered and provided by Native Hawaiian, Asian and Caucasian males.

Comments on physicians who serve a medically underserved area/population.

Looks at the Caregiver Ratio Index (CRI), the number of potential caregivers divided by the number of potential frail elders, and its usefulness as a demographic tool.

Research looked at four topics: nature of nursing practice, roles and functions, commonalities and differences among roles and functions in various settings, and factors which facilitate or hinder practice and development of expertise. Methods involved analysis of Registered Nurses Database to develop a demographic profile, systematic analyses of policy and administrative documents, national survey of 3,933 registered nurses, and interviews with 152 practitioners about their experiences.

Assesses birth outcomes and infant mortality, by neighborhood socioeconomic status, among First Nations and non-First Nations in Manitoba.

Looks at the over-representation of Aboriginal people in the Canadian criminal justice system, and suggests that potential sources of the problem include social, economic and demographic features of Aboriginal communities.

Discusses the inability to provide adequate housing and addiction and mental health services to those in need and the approaches to take to care for the vulnerable.

Looks at trends in the fertility rates for North American Indians, Registered Indians, Métis and Inuit peoples and the merging of age patterns between different groups over the past 30 years.

Looks at the findings of a study, about a community computing lab, including increased usage and acceptance into the neighborhood.

Using interviews with female Indigenous high school students to discuss body image and some suggestions to improve those perspectives.

"Report to the Ministry of Education".

Examines the findings from a qualitative study of 12 Aboriginal people and 8 workers from the homeless-serving sector.

Outlines the historical background of Aboriginal populations; describes New Brunswick Aboriginal Peoples Council's organizational structure, representational capacity and track record of advocacy, with particular reference to membership recognition and representation through programming, in litigation, and policy development; analyzes demographics and options for representation of four groups: Status Indians residing off reserve; non-Status Indians; General List Indians of the Harquail Clan (Sickadomec); and never-registered populations.

Commentary looks at the differences between Non-Status, registered Indians, Inuit, and Métis people.

Facts about mortality, chronic diseases, HIV and sexually transmitted diseases, access to health and health of children from infant to adolescent in the American Indian population.

Concludes that North-South place of residence does matter in regards to adverse birth outcomes, but the effects may differ by ethnicity and this situation could require different intervention strategies.

Demography Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 2003.

The results of a telephone interviews from participants from Northern communities.

Discusses the International Polar Year Health Survey, a mass checkup to assess the health status of the Inuit people.

Primary data source Canadian Socio-Economic Information Management System (CANSIM).

Primary data source Canadian Socio-Economic Information Management System (CANSIM 2)..

Primary data source for this publication is the Canadian Socio-Economic Information Management System (CANSIM 2).

Incorporates data available as of July 2006. Primary data source is Statistics Canada's Canadian Socio-economic Information and Management System (CANSIM2).

Primary data source Canadian Socio-Economic Information Management System (CANSIM).

Findings indicated study group exhibited minimal variance with overall population.

Provides an overview of health and living circumstances and includes data on community characteristics, non-medical determinants of health and health status.

Focuses on the peoples of the northern area of the Northwest Coast including Alaska, Washington, Oregon and British Columbia. Chapter from Volume 2 of Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in the World's Cultures edited by Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember.

Looks at TB impact in one residential school. Chapter 12 from: Multiplying and Dividing: Tuberculosis in Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand edited by Judith Littleton, Julie Park, Ann Herring and Tracy Farmer. Scroll down to page 149 to read chapter.

Collection of papers from the Aboriginal Policy Research Conference addressing some issues and needs faced by communities in urban areas.

Discusses some uses for the data gathered about 1908 by James Mooney.

Examines three types of social program funding: employment training, education, and health care.

Data Sources: Statistics Canada (2011 NHS, 2016 Census, Income Statistics Division and Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics), Nunavut Department of Education, Nunavut Department of Health, Nunavut Bureau of Statistics.

Provides brief overview of geography, society, economy, history, features of land claim, and two central political issues: local control and values of its people.

Study commissioned by the Department of Justice Canada to gain insight into the state of legal service provision in Nunavut.

Looks at the demographic profile of the Northwest Territories and summarizes literature relevant to nutritional health of the Déne and Métis populations.

Comments on various roles of the strategy, school programs, tourism and investment, and reports on progress of action items.

Discusses the health of the four Polynesian Pasifika languages from the researchers and writers perspective.

Uses census data (collected every 10 years) and the American Community Survey, to compare occupational structures and stratifications in the two groups.

Explores the concept of keyam (to give up) in relation to tuberculosis transmission. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 30.

Uses 2006 census data and literature to connect data findings and create a profile.

Looks at possible explanations for the alarming rates of suicide within the Native American community.

"... census returns of 1852 ..." page 14.

Statistics include demographic information, most serious offences and charges, sentence length, responses to geographic questions, mobility patterns, and conclusions. National results as well as provincial and territorial.

Analysis of demographic data from 1863 to 1978.