Population by Language

Question

I've received a request from a prof here at the U of S for population data for the NWT that's broken down by age and language(s). That is, how many in each age group speak English or French or both? For simplicity's sake, he's not looking at non-official languages. We've found population by age group; and we've found language data, but not categorized by age.

Answer

The following topic based tabulation from the 2006 Census may meet your user's needs. If you go to the Download tab, you can download the table and work with it in Beyond 20/20 to display the data for all of the age ranges.

Knowledge of Official Languages (5), Number of Non-official Languages Known (5), Age Groups (17A) and Sex (3) for the Population of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2006 Census - 20% Sample Data (97-555-XCB2006009)

http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2006/dp-pd/tbt/Rp-eng.cfm?LANG=E&APATH=3&DETAIL=0&DIM=0&FL=A&FREE=0&GC=0&GID=0&GK=0&GRP=1&PID=89188&PRID=0&PTYPE=88971,97154&S=0&SHOWALL=0&SUB=704&Temporal=2006&THEME=70&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=

The user may also be interested in the other 2006 Census language related topic-based tabulations that are available under: http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2006/dp-pd/tbt/St-eng.cfm?LANG=E&APATH=3&DETAIL=0&DIM=0&FL=A&FREE=0&GC=0&GID=0&GK=0&GRP=1&PID=0&PRID=0&PTYPE=88971,97154&S=0&SHOWALL=0&SUB=0&Temporal=2006&THEME=70&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=

Should these not meet the user's needs, please don't hesitate to let me know and I will be happy to locate other products.

Aboriginal identity population

Question

I am looking for Total population, Aboriginal identity population by Census subdivision (CSD) for Alberta.

Answer
I believe that the following 2006 Census table has the information you need (Total population, Aboriginal identity population by CSD for Alberta): Aboriginal identity population by age groups, median age and sex, 2006 counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities) - 20% sample data

To get to this table:
Go to http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/data/highlights/Aboriginal/index.cfm?Lang=E
Under Table 1 - Census subdivisions (CSDs) - Municipalities, click on: By province or territory - All CSDs with an Aboriginal identity population of 250-plus

You may also want to refer your user to the "Note to readers" found in the Daily release for this data (http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/080115/dq080115a-eng.htm). It has some important information regarding how the Aboriginal identity population was counted.

First Nations Reserves in Ontario

Question

A faculty member here needs a list of all the reserves in Ontario with their population figures. I thought I had seen this somewhere once, but now I can't locate it anywhere. If it exists, I'd like to know where; if not, how can I generate one?

Answer

Applicable information can be found in the First Nations profiles, at
http://sdiprod2.inac.gc.ca/FNProfiles
and the 2001 Census Aboriginal Population Profiles available at
http://www12.statcan.ca/english/Profil01/AP01/Search/List/Page.cfm?Lang=E&GeoCode=35

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.