Population Registered under the Indian Act by Gender and Residence: Data Series from 2023

The Registrar, within the Department of Indigenous Services Canada (ISC), is required by the Indian Act (Chapter I, Section 5 (1)) to record the names of individuals who are registered under the Act, in the Indian Register. The Indian Registration System (IRS) is a database which records individuals' names and a range of non-statutory data. The publication _Population Registered under the Indian Act by Gender and Residence_ describes the IRS population as recorded on December 31 of the report’s reference year. Descriptive statistics are developed from the IRS and include gender, residence, registry group, responsibility centre, and region. __Data Organization__ Registry groups with a total membership of fewer than 40 individuals are suppressed from the dataset, with the corresponding cells left blank. Furthermore, other techniques are in place such as suppression of individual cells smaller than 10 as well as suppression of adjacent cells to guard against residual disclosure. The counts of any suppressed cells, however, are included in aggregations to district, regional and national totals. __Differences from Previous Editions__ Each edition of this report may include updates to…

Publisher

Indigenous Services Canada

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6

Updated

2025-12-29