How we identify and count Aboriginal people—does it make a difference in estimating their disease burden?

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Chan,W. W.
  • Ng, C.
  • Young, T. K.

• "Introduction: We examined the concordance between the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) 'identity' and 'ancestry' questions used to estimate the size of the Aboriginal population in Canada and whether the different definitions affect the prevalence of selected chronic diseases. Methods: Based on responses to the 'identity' and 'ancestry' questions in the CCHS combined 2009-2010 microdata file, Aboriginal participants were divided into 4 groups: (A) identity only; (B) ancestry only; (C) either ancestry or identity; and (D) both ancestry and identity. Prevalence of diabetes, arthritis and hypertension was estimated based on participants reporting that a health professional had told them that they have the condition(s)." (as cited in abstract)

• Date created

  2013

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Health of indigenous peoples
  • Health surveys
  • Public health
  • Disease prevalence
  • Socioeconomic factors
  • Canada
  • Chronic disease diagnosis
  • Canada

• Type of Item

  Article (Published)

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-dw8k-tb26

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International