Table 1.
Descriptive statistics for the sample of youth (grades 6 to 9) Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Youth, 2004-2008, Canada.
| 2004 (n = 23,362) | 2006 (n = 34,050) | 2008 (n = 31,249) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aboriginal a | Non-Aboriginal a | Chi-Square | Aboriginal a | Non-Aboriginal a | Chi-Square | Aboriginal a | Non-Aboriginal a | Chi-Square | |
| Sex | |||||||||
| Male | 54.2 | 50.9 | Х2 = 4.00 (1), p = 0.05 | 52.9 | 50.9 | Х2 = 4.00 (1), p = 0.05 | 52.4 | 50.7 | Х2 = 2.51 (1), p = 0.11 |
| Female | 45.8 | 49.1 | 47.1 | 49.1 | 47.6 | 49.3 | |||
| Grade | |||||||||
| 6 | 24.7 | 24.0 | Х2 = 22.9 (3), p < 0.001 | 23.4 | 21.8 | Х2 = 8.92 (3), p = 0.03 | 23.1 | 22.9 | Х2 = 5.49 (3), p = 0.14 |
| 7 | 19.8 | 25.6 | 24.8 | 24.7 | 24.8 | 24.7 | |||
| 8 | 24.9 | 25.2 | 23.9 | 26.5 | 23.9 | 25.9 | |||
| 9 | 30.7 | 25.2 | 27.9 | 27.0 | 28.2 | 26.5 | |||
| Weekly | |||||||||
| spending | |||||||||
| money | |||||||||
| $0 | 23.9 | 21.9 | Х2 = 42.9 (3), p < 0.001 | 13.4 | 19.1 | Х2 = 104.4 (3), p < 0.001 | 17.5 | 23.2 | Х2 = 146.75 (3), p < 0.001 |
| $1 to $20 | 37.4 | 46.9 | 50.2 | 49.0 | 40.4 | 44.4 | |||
| $21 or more | 26.7 | 19.3 | 27.6 | 20.8 | 29.3 | 18.9 | |||
| Don’t know | 12.0 | 11.9 | 8.8 | 11.1 | 12.8 | 13.4 | |||
a weighted population estimate