Editor's Note:

• The Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht has identified 26 Gaeltacht Language Planning Areas (Limistéir Pleanála Teanga) for the purposes of the Gaeltacht Act 2012. Under the Act, the existing Gaeltacht Areas will be redesignated as Gaeltacht Language Planning Areas providing that language plans have been agreed with the communities in the various areas in accordance with the prescribed language planning criteria. Further details of these areas are available at http://www.udaras.ie/en/ceisteanna-coitianta/

• The census figures relate to the de facto population, i.e. the population recorded for each area represents the total of all persons present within its boundaries on the night of Sunday, 24 April 2016, together with all persons who arrived in that area on the morning of Monday, 25 April 2016, not having been enumerated elsewhere. Persons on board ships in port are included with the population of adjacent areas. The figures, therefore, include visitors present on Census Night as well as those in residence, while usual residents temporarily absent from the area are excluded.

• The de facto measure of the population in April 2016 was 4,761,865 while the usually resident total was 4,689,921 - a difference of 71,944 or 1.5%. The usually resident measure is used when analysing topics such as nationality and households and families.

• The Central Statistics Office has to date this year published two Summary Reports providing first results of all of the areas covered in Census 2016, together with three thematic reports looking at individual themes in more detail. The next thematic report to be published will be Profile 4 Households and Families, which will be available from 11.00am on Thursday 27^th July. A further seven profile reports will be published between then and the end of the year. The full release schedule, and all of the reports published to date, are available at http://www.cso.ie/en/census