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In 1995, the Aboriginal Affairs Secretariat of the Manitoba Department of Northern Affairs produced a 46-page report entitled "Profile Of Manitoba's Aboriginal Population." The purpose of the report was to ". provide information on the situation Aboriginal people face in their daily lives. [...] In 2003, a special roll-up of 2001 Census data was obtained by the Aboriginal Single Window, in cooperation with the Manitoba Aboriginal Affairs Secretariat and the Manitoba Department of Family Services and Housing. [...] In addition, a disproportionate number of units in Winnipeg largely determines the distribution of houses in the north lack access to modern plumbing most of the Aboriginal population. [...] NORTH/SOUTH SPLIT Living in northern Manitoba are 57,445 Aboriginal people, as defined by the Manitoba Department of Northern and Aboriginal Affairs.9 Although the Aboriginal population of northern Manitoba increased by 4,000 from 1996 to 2001, the percentage of Aboriginal Manitobans living in the north declined from 42% to 38.5%. [...] Of 8,905 off-reserve Status Indians in the north, about half live in Thompson or The Pas, and half elsewhere in the north.