Income Assistance Receipt among Off-reserve Indigenous Peoples in Canada

• Published in: aboriginal policy studies
• Main Author: Jungwee Park
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; French
• Published: University of Alberta 2019
• Subjects: Anthropology; GN1-890; Communities. Classes. Races; HT51-1595; Canada; Lone; First Nations; inuit
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5663/aps.v8i1.29339; https://doaj.org/article/56ad648a061d471aac71d113d1c4d8b5

This study demonstrated income assistance (IA) receipt among Aboriginal people living off-reserve using data from the 2012 Aboriginal Peoples Survey (APS), a national survey of First Nations people living off reserve, Métis, and Inuit. In 2011, 12% of Aboriginal people living off-reserve received IA...