Table 1.
Sociodemographic characteristics of respondents and households (n 64) in Fort Albany, an on-reserve First Nations community, sub-Arctic Ontario, Canada, 2009–2011
| Value | ||
|---|---|---|
| Sociodemographic variable | n | % |
| Respondent | ||
| Sex | ||
| Male | 34 | 53·0 |
| Female | 30 | 47·0 |
| Highest level of education | ||
| Elementary graduate or less | 22 | 34·4 |
| Secondary graduate or some secondary | 24 | 37·5 |
| Post-secondary graduate or some post-secondary | 18 | 28·1 |
| Main income source | ||
| Salary/wages | 44 | 68·8 |
| Social assistance or other* | 20 | 31·2 |
| Household | ||
| Household type | ||
| Couple with children | 41 | 64·1 |
| Couple, no children† | 10 | 15·6 |
| Lone parent‡ | 9 | 14·1 |
| Other§ | 4 | 6·2 |
| Children aged <18 years living in household | ||
| None | 14 | 21·9 |
| 1 or 2 | 31 | 48·4 |
| 3+ | 19 | 29·7 |
| Number of families∥ living in household | ||
| 1 | 33 | 51·6 |
| 2 | 31 | 48·4 |
| Mean | Range | |
| Age (years) | 43·6 | 26–63 |
| Number of people living in household | 4·5 | 1–10 |
| Number of children aged <18 years in household¶ | 2·6 | 1–8 |
*Respondents could choose other sources of income, including worker's compensation/employment insurance, pension/senior's benefits or any other source (e.g. alimony, child tax benefits, etc.); however, all respondents without a main income source from salary/wages chose social assistance.
†Includes couples living alone or those with children aged >18 years.
‡Includes lone parents living with at least one child aged <18 years.
§Includes unattached individuals not living with any children aged <18 years.
∥A ‘family’ was defined according to the Statistics Canada definition for Census Family( 48 ).
¶Of those households with children.