Registered or Treaty Indian status of person, category

The data for this variable are reported using the following classification(s) and/or list(s):

'Registered or Treaty Indian status' refers to whether or not a person reported being a Registered or Treaty Indian. Registered Indian refers to persons who are registered under the Indian Act of Canada. Treaty Indians are persons who belong to a First Nation or Indian band that signed a treaty with the Crown. Registered or Treaty Indians are sometimes also called Status Indians.

'Person' refers to an individual and is the unit of analysis for most social statistics programmes.