Table 1
Ways the rising prices have impacted the household in the past six months, by Indigenous identity, Canada, 2024
| Estimate - First Nations people living off reserve | Lower limit of confidence interval (95%) – First Nations people living off reserve | Upper limit of confidence interval (95%) – First Nations people living off reserve | Estimate - Métis | Lower limit of confidence interval (95%) – Métis | Upper limit of confidence interval (95%) – Métis | Estimate - Inuit | Lower limit of confidence interval (95%) – Inuit | Upper limit of confidence interval (95%) – Inuit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | |
| Limited the amount of healthy, nutritious food you could buy | 60.7 | 56.3 | 65.0 | 59.2 | 54.7 | 63.6 | 64.1 | 54.6 | 72.8 |
| Added to the amount of stress in your household and relationships | 59.4 | 55.3 | 63.5 | 58.5 | 54.0 | 62.9 | 61.8 | 53.3 | 69.7 |
| Affected the amount of food you ate so that others in the household could eat | 32.8 | 28.6 | 37.2 | 31.5 | 27.2 | 36.1 | 37.4 | 30.4 | 44.8 |
| Limited you from buying the food you needed in order to pay for rent or mortgage | 31.4 | 27.5 | 35.5 | 32.2 | 27.9 | 36.8 | 38.4 | 31.1 | 46.1 |
| Caused you to not have enough food to last the week | 22.3 | 18.8 | 26.1 | 23.4 | 19.3 | 28.0 | 33.5 | 27.0 | 40.4 |
| Limited your ability to hunt, fish or trap due to rising prices | 17.2 | 14.0 | 20.9 | 13.9 | 10.7 | 17.6 | 31.7 | 25.9 | 37.9 |
| Other way rising prices have impacted you or your household in the past 6 months | 9.3 | 6.9 | 12.3 | 12.8 | 9.9 | 16.2 | 10.3 | 7.0 | 14.5 |
| Stopped you from paying rent or mortgage in order to buy food | 7.5 | 5.5 | 9.9 | 5.8 | 4.0 | 8.2 | 18.4 | 14.2 | 23.1 |
| Rising prices have not impacted you or your household in the past 6 months | 20.2 | 16.7 | 23.9 | 20.3 | 16.7 | 24.3 | 13.0 | 9.3 | 17.6 |
Source(s):
Survey Series on First Nations people, Metis and Inuit – Well-being and Impacts of Rising Prices, 2024 (5410).
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