Community Profiles for Reserves

Question

I've found the page for 2001 Census Aboriginal Population Profiles for Saskatchewan:
http://www12.statcan.ca/english/Profil01/AP01/Search/List/
Page.cfm?Lang=E&GeoCode=47

I think it's really great, however, the student wants this data for almost 500 reserves (not all are in Sask) and I don't know how she can get it without going through this page and clicking on each and everyone individually. Shouldn't I be able to provide her with this information in raw data format so she can extract all of the variables through SPSS? If so, please tell me how. If not, please explain.

I'm also confused because somewhere a long the line I got the idea that the APS 2001 was for off-reserve population only.

Answer

The following description provides you the information on the APS 2001:

http://www.statcan.ca/english/Dli/Metadata/aps/2001/aps2001gid.pdf
See page 12 and 13 of the User Guide.

The survey was covering off reserve and some on reserve but the PUMF is only off-reserve:

The PUMF covers the off-reserve adult Aboriginal population only, that is, people living either on- or off-community, but not in a First Nation community or reserve (see box on page 3). First Nation communities (reserves) were excluded from the PUMF for two reasons:
* Because of confidentiality concerns, it would have been impossible to include an indication of the First Nations community (reserve) which eliminates the possibility of doing analysis at the community level;
* Because of cost constraints, the sampling strategy focused on the larger reserves in each province, and hence these were not representative of the entire on-reserve population.

The link you have provided directs you to the 2001 Census Aboriginal Profile, that is the source is the Census not the Aboriginal People Survey.

As for extracting the raw data, the Census Operations Division doesn't seem to have a product created from which you can pull all areas as shown on the 2001 Census Aboriginal Profiles. It was created specifically for that purpose and to be looked at only one area compared to the province or Canada.