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2006 Aboriginal population profile for Halifax : Profil de la population autochtone de 2006 pour Halifax

10 Dec 2009

Statistics Canada 5 2006 Aboriginal Population Profile for Halifax Introduction This report examines the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of the Aboriginal population living in the census metropolitan area (CMA) of Halifax.1 The following First Nations reserve communities are located within the census metropolitan area boundaries of Halifax: Sheet Harbour 36, Beaver Lake 17 and Cole H [...] The census metropolitan area of Halifax, with 5,320 Aboriginal people, had the largest Aboriginal population of any city in Nova Scotia in 2006 — more than four times the Aboriginal population living in Truro (1,250), which had the third largest Aboriginal population. [...] Close to four in 10 (41%) of the Aboriginal people in Halifax were under the age of 25, compared to three in 10 (30%) of non-Aboriginal people. [...] For example, 12% of Aboriginal women 35 to 44 years of age attended school in 2006, compared to 10% of non-Aboriginal women in the same age group (see table 3 in the appendix). [...] Higher unemployment rates for Aboriginal people in Halifax In 2006, the unemployment rate4 for the Aboriginal core working age population (aged 25 to 54) in Halifax was higher than that of the non-Aboriginal population (8.1% compared to 4.7%).
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Authors

Milligan, Shelly

ISBN
9781100144689
Pages
20
Published in
Canada

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