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Special Reports :: Key Facts - Adults
Of the 119,241 Alaska Natives, 43.59 percent (51,977) of the population are adults, 25 to 64 years of age compared to 52.23 percent (146,992,887) for U.S. All Races.
REF:[1,2,3] FOOTNOTES & DEFINITIONS:
1. QuickTable-P1. Age Groups and Sex: 2000. Data Set: Census 2000 Summary File 1 (SF1) 100-Percent Data. Geographic Area: United States. U.S. Census Bureau.
2. QuickTable-P1. Age Groups and Sex: 2000. Data Set: Census 2000 Summary File 1 (SF1) 100-Percent Data. Geographic Area: Alaska.
3. Summary File 2, 2000 Census. State of Alaska, Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Census & Geographic Information Network.
For ages 25 and over, 63.1 percent of Alaska Natives have a High School diploma compared to 75.2 percent of U.S. All Races.
REF:[10] FOOTNOTES & DEFINITIONS:
10. Regional Differences in Indian Health, 1998-99. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Indian health Service, Office of Public Health, Division of Community and Environmental Health, Program Statistics Team.
4.1 percent of Alaska Natives have completed a Bachelor's degree or higher compared to 20.3 percent of U.S. All Races.
REF:[10] FOOTNOTES & DEFINITIONS:
10. Regional Differences in Indian Health, 1998-99. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Indian health Service, Office of Public Health, Division of Community and Environmental Health, Program Statistics Team.
The 1989 median household income for Alaska Natives was $24,216 compared to $30,056 for U.S. All Races.
REF:[10] FOOTNOTES & DEFINITIONS:
10. Regional Differences in Indian Health, 1998-99. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Indian health Service, Office of Public Health, Division of Community and Environmental Health, Program Statistics Team.
Every 100 Alaska Native persons of working-age must support 87.2 additional persons compared to 52.1 persons for Alaska Whites. 11, 23
REF:[11,23] FOOTNOTES & DEFINITIONS:
11. Alaska Population Overview: 1999 Estimates. State of Alaska, Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Research and Analysis Section. May 2000.
23. Dependency ratios show how large a burden of support is placed on the working age population.
Forty-two percent of Alaska Native adults are current smokers.
REF:[4] FOOTNOTES & DEFINITIONS:
4. Health Status in Alaska, 2000 Edition, State of Alaska, Department of Health and Social Services, Division of Public Health, Data and Evaluation Unit. January 2001.
The lung cancer age-adjusted mortality rates for Alaska Natives (52.8) is slightly lower than that of U.S. All Races (57.2).
REF:[7,9,21] FOOTNOTES & DEFINITIONS:
7. Murphy SL. Deaths: Final Data for 1998. National vital statistics reports; vol 48 no. 11. Hyattsville, Maryland: National Center for Health Statistics. 2000.
9. Alaska Native Mortality, 1980-1998. Alaska Area Native Health Service, Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Division of Planning, Evaluation, and Health Statistics. June 2001.
21. Age adjustment is the application of age-specific rates in a population of interest to a standardized age distribution so that differing populations can be compared. It is expressed as a rate per 100,000 population.
Age-adjusted colon-rectal cancer mortality rates for Alaska Natives (21.4) are nearly twice the rate of U.S. All Races (12.6).
REF:[10,21] FOOTNOTES & DEFINITIONS:
10. Regional Differences in Indian Health, 1998-99. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Indian health Service, Office of Public Health, Division of Community and Environmental Health, Program Statistics Team.
21. Age adjustment is the application of age-specific rates in a population of interest to a standardized age distribution so that differing populations can be compared. It is expressed as a rate per 100,000 population.
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