School mobility and educational outcomes of off-reserve First Nations students
On March 31, 2015 Statistics Canada released the study “School mobility
and educational outcomes of off-reserve First Nations students, 2012
( http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/150331/dq150331c-eng.htm) ”,
based on data from the 2012 Aboriginal Peoples Survey (APS). Among
other findings, the study reports that off-reserve First Nations
students who had changed schools once, outside of a regular academic
progression, were more likely to have repeated a grade than those who
had not changed schools or who had one regular academic progression
move. This finding held even when other variables such as age, sex,
household income, living arrangements and rural/population centre
residence were taken into account.
Students in Grades 1-6 who had one non-regular progression move were
more likely to need or receive help for behavioural or emotional
problems than those who didn’t move. For more findings, please see the
full report at
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/89-653-x/89-653-x2015006-eng.pdf (in
PDF) or http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/89-653-x/89-653-x2015006-eng.htm
(in HTML).
For further information on the 2012 Aboriginal Peoples Survey, please
see: www.statcan.gc.ca/aps .
