Indigenous peoples
Key indicators
Selected geographical area: Canada
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778
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1.94-14.5%
(annual change)
More indigenous peoples indicators
Selected geographical area: Canada
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Percentage of adults aged 25 to 64 with a college or university credential - Canada
(2021 Census of Population)57.5% -
Percentage of adults aged 25 to 64 with a bachelor’s degree or higher - Canada
(2021 Census of Population)32.9% -
Percentage point change in adults aged 25 to 64 with a bachelor’s degree or higher - Canada
(2016 to 2021)4.3
(period-to-period change) -
Overqualification rate of immigrants aged 25 to 64 with a degree completed outside Canada - Canada
(2021 Census of Population)25.8% -
1,807,2509.4%
(period-to-period change)
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1,048,4059.7%
(period-to-period change)
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624,2206.3%
(period-to-period change)
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70,5458.5%
(period-to-period change)
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1,673,78542.5
(period-to-period change)
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977,23039.3
(period-to-period change)
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587,54551.2
(period-to-period change)
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65,02529.1
(period-to-period change)
Subject
- Limit subject index to Demographic characteristics and Indigenous groups
- Limit subject index to Education, learning and skills
- Limit subject index to Health and well-being
- Limit subject index to Income and spending
- Limit subject index to Indigenous children
- Limit subject index to Indigenous population profiles
- Limit subject index to Labour and employment
- Limit subject index to Language and culture
- Limit subject index to Living arrangements and housing
- Limit subject index to Victimization and crime
- Limit subject index to Other content related to Indigenous peoples
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- Journals and periodicals: 75-006-XGeography: CanadaDescription: This publication brings together and analyzes a wide range of data sources in order to provide information on various aspects of Canadian society, including labour, income, education, social, and demographic issues, that affect the lives of Canadians.Release date: 2025-05-21
- Stats in brief: 11-001-X202512739382Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2025-05-07
- Stats in brief: 11-627-M2025034Description: This infographic provides insights into the use of Inuktut among Inuit in Nunavut. It is based on data from the 2022 Indigenous Peoples Survey and includes key statistics on Inuktut use, such as exposure to the language and the importance of understanding Inuktut.Release date: 2025-05-07
- Stats in brief: 11-627-M2025035Description: Using language-related data from the 2021 Census of Population, this infographic provides insights into the knowledge and use of Inuktut in Nunavut. Findings include results about language spoken at home, language used at work, mother tongue and knowledge of languages across the territory.Release date: 2025-05-07
- Articles and reports: 85-002-X202500100001Description: This Juristat article examines the extent to which adult criminal court outcomes differ between Indigenous people and White people accused of criminal offences in Canada from 2016/2017 to 2020/2021. Differences in decision and sentencing outcomes are examined overtime and broken down by gender, age, province/region, type of offence, and criminal history. Additionally, results are presented separately for First Nations people, Métis, and Inuit accused. This study uses linked data from the Integrated Criminal Court Survey (ICCS) and the 2016 Census of Population.Release date: 2025-05-06
- Stats in brief: 11-001-X202512637006Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2025-05-06
- Stats in brief: 11-001-X202510634463Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2025-04-16
- Table: 36-10-0695-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: AnnualDescription: Data on gross domestic income and output attributable to Indigenous paid workers and businesses owned by Indigenous people. Also includes total jobs occupied by Indigenous workers. Data is available by province and territory as well as industry.Release date: 2025-04-16
- Table: 36-10-0696-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: AnnualDescription: Data on paid workers jobs, hours worked and wages and salaries in the Canadian economy by Indigenous workers' characteristics. This includes sex, age, level of education, and work activity by industry and province or territory.Release date: 2025-04-16
- Stats in brief: 11-001-X202509837691Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2025-04-08
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- Table: 36-10-0695-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: AnnualDescription: Data on gross domestic income and output attributable to Indigenous paid workers and businesses owned by Indigenous people. Also includes total jobs occupied by Indigenous workers. Data is available by province and territory as well as industry.Release date: 2025-04-16
- Table: 36-10-0696-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: AnnualDescription: Data on paid workers jobs, hours worked and wages and salaries in the Canadian economy by Indigenous workers' characteristics. This includes sex, age, level of education, and work activity by industry and province or territory.Release date: 2025-04-16
- Table: 41-10-0081-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: OccasionalDescription: Unmet health care needs, wait times, cost-related non-adherence to prescription medication and other characteristics of health care access and experiences by First Nations people living off reserve, Métis and Inuit, and genderRelease date: 2025-04-08
- Table: 98-10-0299-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: OccasionalUniverse: Population in private households, 2021 Census — 25% Sample dataVariable list: Indigenous language spoken at home (98), Indigenous identity (9), Indigenous language spoken at home (7), Age (5B), Statistics (3), Single and multiple responses of language spoken at home (3)Description: All Indigenous languages spoken at home by single and multiple responses of language spoken at home, Indigenous identity, Indigenous language spoken at home and age for the population in private households.Release date: 2025-02-19
- Table: 13-10-0924-01Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: OccasionalDescription: Number and percentage of persons for selected health indicators, by Indigenous identity, province/territory, age, and sex, based on four-year period estimates.Release date: 2025-02-13
- 6. Health indicators for the Inuit population, Canada and Inuit Nunangat, four-year period estimatesTable: 13-10-0925-01Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census divisionFrequency: OccasionalDescription: Number and percentage of persons for selected health indicators, for the Inuit population, by geography (Inuit Nunangat), age group, and sex, based on four-year period estimates.Release date: 2025-02-13
- Table: 13-10-0926-01Geography: Province or territoryFrequency: OccasionalDescription: Number and percentage of persons for selected health indicators, by Indigenous identity, region and sex, based on two-year period estimates.Release date: 2025-02-13
- Table: 14-10-0359-01Geography: Canada, Geographical region of CanadaFrequency: AnnualDescription: Number of persons in the labour force (employment and unemployment) and not in the labour force, unemployment rate, participation rate and employment rate by Indigenous and Non-Indigenous population, educational attainment and age group, last 5 years.Release date: 2025-01-27
- Table: 14-10-0418-01Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: AnnualDescription: Average hourly and weekly wages and average usual weekly hours by Indigenous and Non-Indigenous population, gender and age group.Release date: 2025-01-24
- Table: 14-10-0446-01Geography: Province or territoryFrequency: AnnualDescription: Labour force characteristics by First Nations, Métis, and Inuit, Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, age group, and gender, annual.Release date: 2025-01-24
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- Journals and periodicals: 75-006-XGeography: CanadaDescription: This publication brings together and analyzes a wide range of data sources in order to provide information on various aspects of Canadian society, including labour, income, education, social, and demographic issues, that affect the lives of Canadians.Release date: 2025-05-21
- Stats in brief: 11-001-X202512739382Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2025-05-07
- Stats in brief: 11-627-M2025034Description: This infographic provides insights into the use of Inuktut among Inuit in Nunavut. It is based on data from the 2022 Indigenous Peoples Survey and includes key statistics on Inuktut use, such as exposure to the language and the importance of understanding Inuktut.Release date: 2025-05-07
- Stats in brief: 11-627-M2025035Description: Using language-related data from the 2021 Census of Population, this infographic provides insights into the knowledge and use of Inuktut in Nunavut. Findings include results about language spoken at home, language used at work, mother tongue and knowledge of languages across the territory.Release date: 2025-05-07
- Articles and reports: 85-002-X202500100001Description: This Juristat article examines the extent to which adult criminal court outcomes differ between Indigenous people and White people accused of criminal offences in Canada from 2016/2017 to 2020/2021. Differences in decision and sentencing outcomes are examined overtime and broken down by gender, age, province/region, type of offence, and criminal history. Additionally, results are presented separately for First Nations people, Métis, and Inuit accused. This study uses linked data from the Integrated Criminal Court Survey (ICCS) and the 2016 Census of Population.Release date: 2025-05-06
- Stats in brief: 11-001-X202512637006Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2025-05-06
- Stats in brief: 11-001-X202510634463Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2025-04-16
- Stats in brief: 11-001-X202509837691Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2025-04-08
- Stats in brief: 11-001-X202509038530Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2025-03-31
- Articles and reports: 41-20-00022025002Description: This report is part of a series on Indigenous language families in Canada, using data from the 2021 Census of Population. It provides an overview of the vitality, acquisition and use of Indigenous languages that belong to the Algonquian language family. The following languages are covered: Blackfoot, Atikamekw, Cree languages, Innu (Montagnais), Naskapi, Mi'kmaq, Wolastoqewi (Malecite), Anicinabemowin (Algonquin), Oji-Cree and Ojibway languages. Maps within each report show selected communities with speakers for various Indigenous languages, providing a regional perspective on the extent to which these languages are spoken across Canada.Release date: 2025-03-31
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Reference (37)
Reference (37) (0 to 10 of 37 results)
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 98-20-00032021038Description: This video is part of a series that is designed to give you a basic understanding of the Census of Population web pages. The purpose of this video is to explain where to find and how to extract a profile of selected socio-demographic characteristics related to the Indigenous peoples in the standard data products of the Census of Population website.Release date: 2025-02-19
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 89-653-X2024002Description: This guide is intended to provide a detailed review of both the 2022 IPS and IPS–NIS with respect to subject matter and methodological approaches. It is designed to help data users by serving as a guide to the concepts and measures of the survey as well as the technical details of the survey’s design, field work and data processing. This guide is meant to provide users with helpful information on how to use and interpret survey results. The discussion on data quality also allows users to review the strengths and limitations of the data for their particular needs. Chapter 1 of this guide provides an overview of the 2022 IPS and IPS–NIS by introducing the survey background and objectives. Chapter 2 outlines the survey’s themes and explains the key concepts and definitions used for the survey. Chapters 3 to 6 cover important aspects of the survey methodology, sampling design, data collection and processing. Chapters 7 and 8 review issues of data quality and caution users about comparing 2022 IPS or IPS–NIS data with data from other sources. Chapter 9 outlines the survey products available to the public, including data tables, analytical articles and reference material. The appendices provide a comprehensive list of survey indicators, extra coding categories and standard classifications used on both the IPS and the IPS–NIS. Lastly, a glossary of survey terms and information on confidence intervals is also provided.Release date: 2024-08-14
- Notices and consultations: 41-20-00012024001Description: From November 2022 to March 2023 Statistics Canada undertook a series of discussions to obtain feedback on the questions used to identify First Nations people, Métis and Inuit on the Census of Population and on other Statistics Canada surveys. This report summarizes the feedback received during these discussions.Release date: 2024-05-29
- Notices and consultations: 41-20-0001Description: Engagement on the questions used to identify First Nations people, Métis and Inuit that are included on the Census of Population and on other Statistics Canada surveys is an important part of ensuring high quality and meaningful data are collected. The feedback received during these discussions are presented in these reports.Release date: 2024-05-29
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 98-307-XDescription:
This report deals with Indigenous identity, Indigenous ancestry, Indigenous group, Registered or Treaty Indian status, Membership in a First Nation or Indian band, Membership in a Métis organization or Settlement, and Enrollment under an Inuit land claims agreement, and contains explanations of concepts, data quality, historical comparability and comparability with other sources, as well as information on data collection, processing and dissemination.
Release date: 2024-03-20 - Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 98-20-00032021020Description: This video is designed to provide a basic understanding of the Indigenous population concepts. In this video, you will learn about the various ways to define the Indigenous population, which questions or combination of questions are used to count each of these populations, and how to differentiate each of these populations.Release date: 2023-11-15
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 98-20-00032021019Description: This video identifies the census questionnaires and questions that help provide a portrait of Indigenous peoples in Canada. It also explains why data on the Indigenous peoples is collected and its use and importance to Indigenous governments, organizations and service providers.Release date: 2022-10-26
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 98-500-X2021009Description:
This reference guide provides information to help users effectively use and interpret Indigenous peoples data from the 2021 Census. This guide contains definitions and explanations of concepts, questions, classifications, data quality and comparability with other sources for this topic.
Release date: 2022-09-21 - Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 98-20-00012020003Description:
This fact sheet offers a concise overview of updated—new or modified—content for the 2021 Census of Population that is specific to the theme of Indigenous peoples, which includes the following topics: returning content, membership within a Métis organization or Settlement, and enrollment under an Inuit land claims agreement. The changes considered for these topics are explained, along with the resulting approach for 2021.
Release date: 2020-07-20 - Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 99-011-XDescription:
This topic presents data on the Aboriginal peoples of Canada and their demographic characteristics. Depending on the application, estimates using any of the following concepts may be appropriate for the Aboriginal population: (1) Aboriginal identity, (2) Aboriginal ancestry, (3) Registered or Treaty Indian status and (4) Membership in a First Nation or Indian band. Data from the 2011 National Household Survey are available for the geographical locations where these populations reside, including 'on reserve' census subdivisions and Inuit communities of Inuit Nunangat as well as other geographic areas such as the national (Canada), provincial and territorial levels.
Analytical products
The analytical document provides analysis on the key findings and trends in the data, and is complimented with the short articles found in NHS in Brief and the NHS Focus on Geography Series.
Data products
The NHS Profile is one data product that provides a statistical overview of user selected geographic areas based on several detailed variables and/or groups of variables. Other data products include data tables which represent a series of cross tabulations ranging in complexity and are available for various levels of geography.
Release date: 2019-10-29
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