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First Nations, Metis and Inuit health and mental health: bundled Statistics Canada excerpts

Source: R/indigenous_mental_health.R
indiex.Rd

Small excerpts of Statistics Canada tables, bundled so that the examples and vignettes run on published values without a network connection or a data service key. Values are as published, with their 95% limits and quality flags; nothing is imputed (suppressed cells are NA).

Usage

indiex(
  name = c("health", "mentalhealth", "wellbeing", "suicide",
           "censuspop", "censushh", "lifeexp", "infantmort")
)

Source

Statistics Canada tables, each with its DOI:

Indigenous Population Profile, 2021 Census of Population, catalogue 98-510-X2021001 and 98-510-X2021016. Reproduced and distributed on an “as is” basis with the permission of Statistics Canada, under the Statistics Canada Open Licence:

statcan.gc.ca/en/terms-conditions/open-licence

Built by the scripts indigenous_mental_health.R and indigenous_census.R in the data-raw folder of the source package.

Arguments

name

Which excerpt.

Value

A data frame.

Details

"health"

Table 13-10-0924-01, Health indicators for First Nations people living off reserve, Metis and Inuit, by age group and sex, four-year period estimates (Canadian Community Health Survey), 2015/2018 and 2019/2022; Canada, both sexes, the 27 indicators by age group, with non-Indigenous people for comparison: the table behind The Daily of 2025-02-13. Columns period, group, age, indicator, estimate, lower, upper, quality.

"mentalhealth"

Table 41-10-0067-01, Self-perceived mental health of First Nations people living off reserve, Metis and Inuit by age group and gender, 2022 (Indigenous Peoples Survey); 15 years and older, every region. Columns region, group, rating, estimate, lower, upper, quality.

"wellbeing"

Table 41-10-0082-01, Selected characteristics of well-being and impacts of rising prices by First Nations people living off reserve, Metis and Inuit, and gender, 2024; total of genders. Columns group, indicator, estimate, lower, upper, quality.

"suiide"

Table 41-10-0021-01, Self-perceived mental health and suicidal thoughts by Aboriginal identity, age group and sex, 2017 (Aboriginal Peoples Survey); Canada, both sexes, by age. Columns group, age, measure, estimate, lower, upper, quality.

"censuspop"

The Indigenous Population Profile, 2021 Census of Population (98-510-X2021001), Canada, the provinces and the territories, total of genders, on and off reserve: the population by age group, children and foster children, knowledge of Indigenous languages, highest certificate (25 and over), labour force status, income and low income, as published (read it with cnsprof).

"lifeexp"

Table 17-10-0160-01, Life expectancy at birth of Indigenous populations in Canada, 2006/2011 to 2016/2021, both sexes, Canada: First Nations (Registered or Treaty Indians, on and off reserve, and without registered status), Metis, Inuit and non-Indigenous people. Columns period, group, measure, estimate, lower, upper, quality.

"infmort"

Table 17-10-0161-01, Infant mortality rates of Indigenous populations in Canada (per 1,000 live births), 1994/1996 to 2014/2016, the same groups and columns.

"censushh"

The same profile's households and dwellings (98-510-X2021016), Indigenous and non-Indigenous households: persons per room, housing suitability, dwelling condition and core housing need.

The First Nations figures of the survey excerpts are for First Nations people living off reserve: the surveys do not cover reserves, whose data are governed by First Nations (see the First Nations Information Governance Centre). Groups are as the tables name them, with “Inuk (Inuit)” written "Inuit".

See also

indtabs for the full tables at the data service.

Examples

h <- indiex("health")
mh <- h[h$period == "2019/2022" & h$age == "Total, 18 years and over" &
          h$indicator == "Perceived mental health, very good or excellent", ]
plot(indgap(mh, "group", "estimate", "lower", "upper", qual = "quality"))