Table 1.

Demographic and social characteristics of First Nations adults (total N=554)

Characteristic	Prevalence % (95% CI)
Sex
Male	59.9 (53.3 to 67.2)
Age
18–34	40.2 (33.3 to 48)
35–49	35.4 (28.7 to 41.6)
50+	24.4 (18.4 to 30.8)
Education
Some high school or less	57.3 (51.1 to 64)
Completed high school	19.5 (14.5 to 24.7)
Some or completed college	18.3 (13.3 to 23.3)
Some or completed University	5 (2.4 to 8)
Income sources for household
Provincial or municipal social assistance or welfare (eg, Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP), Ontario Works)	69.2 (63.1 to 75)
Wages and salaries	28.2 (22.1 to 34.2)
Child tax benefit	17 (12.4 to 21.8)
Any other income support	13.3 (9.2 to 17.6)
Employment insurance	9.6 (5.4 to 14.3)
Income from self-employment	7.7 (4.3 to 11.7)
Child support payments	3 (1.1 to 4.6)
Individual annual income
$0–4999	18.3 (13.4 to 24.8)
$5000–5999	23.1 (17.1 to 28.5)
$10 000–14 999	21.9 (16.3 to 27.6)
$15 000–19 999	14.8 (10.7 to 20)
$20 000+	21.8 (16 to 27.6)
Mobility (moves in past 5 years)
No	10.2 (6.2 to 14.8)
1	15.5 (10.5 to 20.6)
2	20.2 (15.4 to 26.4)
3–5	41.1 (35 to 48.6)
6–10	10.4 (5.7 to 13.4)
Overcrowding (persons/room)*
≤1	27.7 (21.6 to 33.8)
1–2	46 (40.5 to 54.3)
>2	26.3 (19.7 to 30.8)
Food security
You and others always had enough of the kinds of food you wanted to eat	26.7 (21.1 to 32.8)
You and others had enough to eat, but not always the kinds of food you wanted	51.5 (45.3 to 58)
Sometimes or often you did not have enough to eat†	21.8 (16.5 to 27)

*Following statistics Canada standards: calculated by dividing the number of rooms in each household (excluding the bathroom) by the number of people residing in the home, where a higher value of ‘persons per room’ indicates a higher level of crowding.⁴⁰

†Collapsed sometimes and often you did not have enough food to eat.