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Annex

Annex

CSO statistical publication, , 11am

Achieved Sample Size by Demographic Characteristics

  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.

Emigration Survey Sample by Demographic Characteristics

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.