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  • The Aboriginal population living in the census metropolitan area of Vancouver is young and growing. In 2006, 40,310 Aboriginal people lived there, a 9% increase from 2001.
  • About four in 10 Aboriginal people (41%) were under the age of 25, compared to 30% of the non-Aboriginal population.
  • While Aboriginal youth aged 15 to 24 in Vancouver had lower school attendance rates than their non-Aboriginal counterparts (57% versus 70%), Aboriginal people have a slightly greater tendency to return to school later in life than do non-Aboriginal people.
  • Half of the Aboriginal adult population (aged 25 to 64 years) in Vancouver have completed postsecondary education compared with two-thirds of their non-Aboriginal counterparts. Among men and women, 48% of Aboriginal men and just over half of Aboriginal women (56%) had completed postsecondary education compared to about two-thirds of non-Aboriginal men (67%) and women (66%), respectively.
  • The unemployment rate for the Aboriginal core working age population (aged 25 to 54) in Vancouver was higher than that of the non-Aboriginal population (9.7% compared to 4.5%). Unemployment rates were higher for women than they were for men.
  • In 2006, Métis men and women aged 25 to 54 living in Vancouver had employment rates (79.5% and 73.2%, respectively) that most resembled those of non-Aboriginal men (85.9%) and non-Aboriginal women (74.9%).
  • Aboriginal people in Vancouver, who worked full time full year in 2005, continued to earn less than their non-Aboriginal counterparts. In 2000, Aboriginal people working full time full year earned 88% of what their non-Aboriginal counterparts were earning. By 2005, this percentage had decreased to 86%, slightly widening the gap in median earnings of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people.