7.5 Institutional Client Profile

A worker at one provincial institution provided the researcher with a client profile of 110 inmates, as follows:

Age:

18 - 20 years 21%
21 - 26 years 32%
26 - 30 years 23%
31 - 35 years 16%
36 - 40 years 6%
41+ 2%

Ethnic Origin:

Treaty Native 65%
Other Native 19%
Other 16%

Stated Level of Education:

Grade Level (It should be noted that grade level is not necessarily indicative of literacy level)

0 - Grade Four 1%
Grade Five 0%
Grade Six 5%
Grade Seven 14%
Grade Eight 21%
Grade Nine 15%
Grade Ten 24%
Grade Eleven 8%
Grade Twelve 12%
Not Given 1%

Stated Employment:

Employed Full Time 4.0%
Employed Part Time 0.9%
Unemployed 94.0%
Doesn't Say 1.8%
Babysitter 4.0%
Housewife 24.0%
Student 7.0%
Professional, Technical or Clerical Worker 4.0%
Other (understood to mean prostitution as a profession) 51.0%
Skilled Labourer 4.0%
Unskilled Labourer 5.0%
No answer 1.0%

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