N Cases at 25 yrs | % of Completed Sample | ||
Gender | Male | 1661 | 49.1 |
---|---|---|---|
Female | 1719 | 50.9 | |
Highest Level of Education | NFQ Level 3 or below | 114 | 3.4 |
NFQ Level 4 | 86 | 2.5 | |
NFQ Level 5 | 1014 | 30.0 | |
NFQ Level 6 | 155 | 4.6 | |
NFQ Level 7 | 99 | 2.9 | |
NFQ Level 8 | 1531 | 45.3 | |
NFQ Level 9 or higher | 382 | 11.3 | |
Income quintile 2022 | 1st (Lowest) | 681 | 20.1 |
2nd | 639 | 18.9 | |
3rd | 639 | 18.9 | |
4th | 639 | 18.9 | |
5th (Highest) | 639 | 18.9 | |
No income recorded | 144 | 4.3 | |
Live at home with parents | Yes | 2364 | 69.9 |
No | 1016 | 30.1 | |
Relationship Status | Single, not dating | 1106 | 32.7 |
Casually dating but not exclusive | 280 | 8.3 | |
Dating one person | 1569 | 46.4 | |
Cohabiting | 270 | 8.0 | |
Engaged | 89 | 2.6 | |
Married | - | - | |
Other relationship status | - | - | |
Employment Status | |||
Employed (including self-employed | 2771 | 82.0 | |
Unemployed | 212 | 6.3 | |
Unable to work due to long-standing health problems | 91 | 2.7 | |
Student in Education | 210 | 6.2 | |
Fulfilling domestic tasks | - | - | |
Other | - | - | |
Ethnic Group | |||
White Irish | 2786 | 95.8 | |
Other White | 48 | 1.7 | |
Other Ethnic Group | 75 | 2.6 | |
Have Children | Yes | 188 | 6.5 |
No | 2708 | 93.5 | |
Sexual Orientation | Heterosexual | 2332 | 80.9 |
Homosexual | 122 | 4.2 | |
Bisexual | 268 | 9.3 | |
Questioning | 54 | 1.9 | |
Other sexual orientation | - | - | |
Don’t know | - | - | |
Prefer not to say | 50 | 1.7 | |
Gender Identity same since birth | Yes | 2787 | 97.4 |
No | 42 | 1.5 | |
Prefer Not to say | 32 | 1.1 | |
All 25-year-olds | 3380 | 100% |
Note: All questions in the Growing Up in Ireland Survey are voluntary, where totals do not add up to the total number of individuals interviewed, this is due to non-response. Percentages are given as percentages of valid responses. Some cells with low counts have been suppressed to prevent statistical disclosure.
For Cohort '98 Wave 5 (at age 25), the CSO approached all existing respondents unless the family had previously definitively refused to be contacted in future waves of the study or was not eligible (i.e. the family had moved abroad in a previous wave, or the respondent was sadly deceased). In total, 7,870 25-year-olds were contacted for interview in Wave 5.
A total of 1,001 individuals reported they were not living in Ireland. More than one out of every eight people (12.7%) who were eligible to be interviewed for GUI Cohort '98 at age 25 had emigrated. Exactly 500 of them completed a short online emigration questionnaire, which is the subject of this annex. The data presented here are unweighted and item missingness was not addressed. Most respondents to the online emigration questionnaire were female (65.6%).
More than five in six respondents (84.7%) said they planned to live abroad for 12 months or more. Just over one in eight respondents (13.3%) had not yet made up their minds about how long they planned to remain abroad, while very few (2%) planned to return to Ireland in less than 12 months.
The main reason respondents gave for leaving Ireland was for employment opportunities (43.3%), followed by education or training (21.1%). Opportunities for holiday or travel was the next most common reason given at 17.3%.
Australia and New Zealand were a popular destination for 25-year-olds with nearly a quarter (24.6%) of respondents completing the online survey from there. However, the most popular place for respondents to have emigrated to was the UK (35.6%).
Respondents were asked when they had emigrated from Ireland. Most respondents had moved in the two years prior to the survey, with 59.6% of respondents having moved abroad since 2022.
Nearly half of those who had emigrated (48.6%) planned to return to live in Ireland, however 30.2% had not decided yet if they would return. Just over a fifth (21.2%) of respondents did not intend to return to live in Ireland in the future.
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