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The Girl Child /

17 Feb 2017

This was the living arrangement for 4.7% of First Nations, 6.4% of Inuit and 1.4% of Métis girls aged 15 to 17, while this was the case for less than 1% of non- Aboriginal girls in the same age group. [...] Socioeconomic conditions About 4 in 10 girls and boys living with a lone parent are in a low-income situation In 2011, 17.3% of girls and boys aged 17 and under, living in the provinces, were in a low-income household according to the low-income measure after tax (LIM-AT).20,21 The prevalence of children living in low-income households varied across the provinces. [...] While 17.1% of girls living in a census family were in a low-income situation, this was the case for 35.8% of girls who were not living in a census family (Table 6). [...] Nearly one-third of Aboriginal girls (30.9%) and boys (30.4%) living in the provinces and not living on-reserve were in a low-income household.22 In comparison, this was the case for 16.6% of both non-Aboriginal girls and non-Aboriginal boys living in the provinces. [...] For example, among children in census families, 41.0% of girls and 40.8% of boys under the age of 5 had a university-educated parent, compared with 30.8% of girls and 30.5% of boys aged 15 to 17 (data not shown).
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Ottawa, ON, CA

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