Survey of living conditions of Arctic indigenous peoples ...

• Main Authors: Kruse, Jack, Poppel, Birger, Abryutina, Larissa, Duhaime, Gerard, Martin, Stephanie, Poppel, Mariekathrine, Kruse, Margaret, Ward, Ed, Cochran, Patricia, Hanna, Virgene
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2008
• Subjects: International Polar Year 2007-2008 IPY; Chukotka; Greenland; greenlandic; International Polar Year; inuit; Inupiat; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.812678; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.812678

Major findings of the Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic (SLiCA) are: (1) A combination of traditional activities and cash employment is the prevailing lifestyle of Arctic indigenous peoples; (2) family ties, social support of each other, and traditional activities have a lot to do with why indigenous people choose to remain in Arctic communities; (3) well-being is closely related to job opportunities, locally available fish and game, and a sense of local control. Well-being and depression (and related problems like suicide) are flip sides of the same coin. Improving well-being may reduce social problems; and, (4) health conditions vary widely in the Arctic: three-in-four Greenlandic Inuit self-rate their health as at least very good compared with one-in-two Canadian and Alaska Inuit and one-in-five Chukotka indigenous people. Findings are based on 7,200 interviews in a probability sample of Inupiat settlement regions of Alaska, the four Inuit settlement regions of Canada, all of Greenland, and the ... : Data extracted in the frame of a joint ICSTI/PANGAEA IPY effort, see http://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.150150 ...