Literacy performance of working-age Aboriginal people in Canada : Niveau de littératie des Autochtones en âge de travailler au Canada : résultats tirés de l'Enquête internationale sur l'alphabétisation et les compétences des adultes (EIACA) de 2003

Table 1 The Population Distribution of the Working Age (16-65 years) Non-Aboriginal and Aboriginal People in the Provinces and Territories Among the Aboriginal Working Age Population, the largest number of North American Indians lived in Ontario, the largest number of Métis in Alberta and British Columbia and the largest number of Inuit in Quebec North Province/ Non- Aboriginal. [...] The overall results from the survey suggest that the literacy performance of the Aboriginal people was lower than that of the Non-Aboriginal people. [...] A comparison of the distribution of prose literacy proficiency for the three Aboriginal groups and the Non-Aboriginal population in Canada showed that higher proportions of Aboriginal people had low scores and had lower levels of proficiency. [...] In other domains, about 60.0% of the Aboriginal people scored below level 3 in document literacy compared to 42.1% of the Non-Aboriginal population; 63.0% of the Aboriginal people scored below level 3 in numeracy compared to 49.3% of the Non-Aboriginal population and 82.8% of Aboriginal people scored below level 3 in problem-solving compared to 67.9% of the Non-Aboriginal population. [...] Literacy Performance of Working-age Aboriginal People in Canada 19 PPeerrcceenntt Figure 5b Distribution of Document Literacy Proficiency Levels among Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal People aged 16-65 About 61% of Aboriginal people scored below level 3 in document literacy compared to 41% of the Non-Aboriginal population.