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CSO statistical release, 19 October 2017, 11am

Quarterly National Household Survey

QNHS Households and Family Units Quarter 2 2011 - Quarter 2 2017

Indicator	Q2 11	Q2 12	Q2 13	Q2 14	Q2 15	Q2 16	Q2 17	Change Q2 16 to Q2 17
Proportion of persons aged 0-17 living in jobless households	20.1%	20.1%	18.0%	16.2%	14.9%	13.3%	12.0%	- 1.3 percentage points
Proportion of persons aged 18-59 living in jobless households	15.2%	15.9%	14.9%	13.7%	12.4%	11.8%	10.5%	- 1.3 percentage points
Proportion of all persons aged 0-59 living in jobless households	16.7%	17.2%	15.8%	14.5%	13.2%	12.3%	11.0%	- 1.3 percentage points

11.0% of persons aged 0-59 living in jobless households in Q2 2017

Figure 1 Proportion of persons aged 18-59 living in jobless households

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The proportion of persons aged 0-59 living in jobless households in the second quarter of 2017 was 11.0%. This compares with 12.3% in the second quarter of 2016. The proportion of persons aged 18-59 living in jobless households in Q2 2017 was 10.5% compared with 11.8% in Q2 2016. The proportion of persons aged 0-17 living in jobless households in Q2 2017 was 12.0% compared with 13.3% in Q2 2016.

In Q2 2017, the Mid-East region had the lowest proportion of persons aged 0-59 living in jobless households (8.4%), while the Midland region had the highest proportion (14.3%). In Q2 2011 the Mid-East region again had the lowest proportion of persons aged 0-59 living in jobless households (13.9%) while the South-East region had the highest proportion (21.2%). See Table 1.

Household Composition

One and two person households together accounted for more than half (52.8%) of all the households in the State in Q2 2017, while 13% of households contained five or more persons. See Tables 2 and 3.

The proportion of households in the State that did not contain a person aged less than 18 in Q2 2017 was 63.0%. The Mid-East region had the lowest proportion of households without a person aged less than 18 at 55.4%, while the West region had the highest proportion of households without a person aged less than 18 at 65.1%. See Tables 4 and 5.

Household Composition and Family Unit Type

There were 410,600 single person households in the State in the second quarter of 2017. The number of households consisting of a couple without children was 369,300, while the number of family units consisting of a couple with children was 648,000. There were 200,600 lone parent family households in Q2 2017. See Table 6.

Family Units and ILO Status

There were 2,346,400 adult members of family units in the second quarter of 2017 of whom 1,470,800 were classified as employed, 66,100 as unemployed and 809,400 as not in the labour force. See Tables 7 and 8.

Family Units and Employment Rate

The employment rate for all persons aged 15-64 was 65.7% in Q2 2017. This compares with 64.7% in Q2 2016 and 59.2% in Q2 2011. In Q2 2017, the employment rate of lone parents (aged 15-64) was 58.5%. This compares with 73.9% for the adult members of couples without children and 76.0% for the adult members of couples with children. See Tables 9 and 10.

The employment rate of lone parents (aged 15-64) whose youngest child was aged 0 to 5 years was 46.6% in Q2 2017 compared to 59.8% where the youngest child was aged 6 to 11 and 65.8% where the youngest child was aged 12 to 17. See Tables 9 and 10.

Family Units and Unemployment Rate

The unemployment rate for all persons aged 15-74 was 6.4% in Q2 2017. The adult members (aged 15-74) of couples without children had a 3.7% unemployment rate, while the adult members of couples with children had an unemployment rate of 3.9% in Q2 2017. The unemployment rate of lone parents was 9.6% in the same period. See Tables 11 and 12.

Family Units and Participation Rate

The participation rates for all males and females aged 15 and over in Q2 2017 were 66.9% and 53.1% respectively. The participation rate of males in couples with children was 87.1% in Q2 2017, while the corresponding participation rate for females was 64.2%. The participation rate of the adult members of couples without children was 50.5% in Q2 2017, compared to a participation rate of 75.8% for the adult members of couples with children and 55.3% for lone parents. See Tables 13 and 14.

Family Units and Duration of Unemployment

There were 7,100 adult members of couples without children classified as long-term unemployed in Q2 2017, while there were 22,400 adult members of couples with children classified as long-term unemployed in the same period. In addition, there were 6,400 lone parents classified as long-term unemployed in Q2 2017. In total, there were 35,900 adult members of family units classified as long-term unemployed in Q2 2017, compared with 53,100 in Q2 2016 and 70,500 in Q2 2015. See Table 15.

Show Table 1 Proportion of persons in jobless households by NUTS2 and NUTS3 regions, age and gender

Table 1 Proportion of persons in jobless households by NUTS2 and NUTS3 regions, age and gender
%
Region/Jobless households		Q2 11	Q2 12	Q2 13	Q2 14	Q2 15	Q2 16	Q2 17
Border, Midland and Western
	Proportion of persons aged 0-17 living in jobless household	21.6	21.1	19.5	18.2	15.3	13.4	14.1
	Proportion of male persons aged 18-59 living in jobless household	17.2	18.9	16.7	16.3	12.9	12.8	11.8
	Proportion of female persons aged 18-59 living in jobless household	17.7	19.5	17.0	17.1	14.7	13.8	14.3
	Proportion of persons aged 18-59 living in jobless households	17.5	19.2	16.8	16.7	13.8	13.3	13.1
	Proportion of all persons aged 0-59 living in jobless households	18.8	19.8	17.7	17.2	14.3	13.3	13.4
Border
	Proportion of persons aged 0-17 living in jobless household	23.4	24.6	23.1	19.2	15.8	13.3	13.7
	Proportion of male persons aged 18-59 living in jobless household	19.3	21.7	19.0	18.8	13.5	13.8	12.6
	Proportion of female persons aged 18-59 living in jobless household	19.7	22.1	20.1	18.1	15.6	15.1	15.3
	Proportion of persons aged 18-59 living in jobless households	19.5	21.9	19.5	18.5	14.6	14.5	14.0
	Proportion of all persons aged 0-59 living in jobless households	20.7	22.8	20.7	18.7	15.0	14.1	13.9
Midland
	Proportion of persons aged 0-17 living in jobless household	23.9	21.8	18.5	17.4	15.4	13.5	14.7
	Proportion of male persons aged 18-59 living in jobless household	16.8	19.6	17.9	15.7	15.0	13.4	13.1
	Proportion of female persons aged 18-59 living in jobless household	18.4	21.1	16.1	17.2	15.1	13.9	15.0
	Proportion of persons aged 18-59 living in jobless households	17.6	20.3	17.0	16.4	15.0	13.7	14.0
	Proportion of all persons aged 0-59 living in jobless households	19.7	20.8	17.5	16.7	15.2	13.6	14.3
West
	Proportion of persons aged 0-17 living in jobless household	17.6	16.2	15.7	17.7	14.5	13.3	14.1
	Proportion of male persons aged 18-59 living in jobless household	15.2	15.1	13.2	13.8	10.9	11.2	10.2
	Proportion of female persons aged 18-59 living in jobless household	14.9	15.5	14.1	16.0	13.5	12.3	12.5
	Proportion of persons aged 18-59 living in jobless households	15.1	15.3	13.6	14.9	12.2	11.8	11.4
	Proportion of all persons aged 0-59 living in jobless households	15.8	15.6	14.3	15.8	12.9	12.3	12.3
Southern and Eastern
	Proportion of persons aged 0-17 living in jobless household	19.5	19.8	17.4	15.4	14.7	13.3	11.2
	Proportion of male persons aged 18-59 living in jobless household	13.9	14.0	13.6	11.6	11.4	10.7	9.1
	Proportion of female persons aged 18-59 living in jobless household	15.0	15.4	14.8	13.7	12.5	11.9	10.1
	Proportion of persons aged 18-59 living in jobless households	14.4	14.7	14.2	12.7	11.9	11.3	9.6
	Proportion of all persons aged 0-59 living in jobless households	15.9	16.2	15.2	13.5	12.8	11.9	10.1
Dublin
	Proportion of persons aged 0-17 living in jobless household	20.9	20.2	17.8	16.2	16.0	15.0	12.6
	Proportion of male persons aged 18-59 living in jobless household	12.3	12.6	12.8	10.2	10.4	9.8	8.9
	Proportion of female persons aged 18-59 living in jobless household	14.1	14.4	13.8	11.8	11.3	11.6	10.0
	Proportion of persons aged 18-59 living in jobless households	13.2	13.6	13.3	11.0	10.9	10.7	9.5
	Proportion of all persons aged 0-59 living in jobless households	15.3	15.4	14.6	12.5	12.3	12.0	10.4
Mid-East
	Proportion of persons aged 0-17 living in jobless household	17.1	18.0	17.1	13.5	12.5	11.4	9.0
	Proportion of male persons aged 18-59 living in jobless household	12.1	11.2	11.5	10.1	9.9	8.9	7.1
	Proportion of female persons aged 18-59 living in jobless household	12.7	13.7	14.3	12.8	11.3	10.1	9.0
	Proportion of persons aged 18-59 living in jobless households	12.4	12.5	13.0	11.5	10.6	9.5	8.1
	Proportion of all persons aged 0-59 living in jobless households	13.9	14.3	14.4	12.2	11.3	10.2	8.4
Mid-West
	Proportion of persons aged 0-17 living in jobless household	15.7	17.2	14.9	15.9	13.3	11.7	12.5
	Proportion of male persons aged 18-59 living in jobless household	14.4	16.1	13.7	13.0	12.6	11.9	10.0
	Proportion of female persons aged 18-59 living in jobless household	13.6	16.4	13.8	13.7	14.1	11.7	10.3
	Proportion of persons aged 18-59 living in jobless households	14.0	16.3	13.7	13.3	13.3	11.8	10.2
	Proportion of all persons aged 0-59 living in jobless households	14.5	16.6	14.1	14.2	13.3	11.8	10.9
South-East
	Proportion of persons aged 0-17 living in jobless household	24.9	24.0	21.7	15.7	14.3	11.5	12.4
	Proportion of male persons aged 18-59 living in jobless household	18.2	18.9	20.0	14.3	13.1	13.5	12.6
	Proportion of female persons aged 18-59 living in jobless household	20.7	20.1	19.7	17.4	15.4	12.9	13.0
	Proportion of persons aged 18-59 living in jobless households	19.4	19.5	19.8	15.9	14.3	13.2	12.8
	Proportion of all persons aged 0-59 living in jobless households	21.2	20.9	20.4	15.8	14.3	12.7	12.7
South-West
	Proportion of persons aged 0-17 living in jobless household	17.3	18.7	15.1	15.2	15.6	14.1	9.2
	Proportion of male persons aged 18-59 living in jobless household	15.0	14.2	12.0	13.0	12.7	11.3	8.4
	Proportion of female persons aged 18-59 living in jobless household	15.4	14.6	14.1	15.6	13.0	13.2	8.6
	Proportion of persons aged 18-59 living in jobless households	15.2	14.4	13.0	14.3	12.8	12.3	8.5
	Proportion of all persons aged 0-59 living in jobless households	15.8	15.7	13.7	14.6	13.7	12.8	8.7
State
	Proportion of persons aged 0-17 living in jobless household	20.1	20.1	18.0	16.2	14.9	13.3	12.0
	Proportion of male persons aged 18-59 living in jobless household	14.7	15.3	14.4	12.8	11.8	11.2	9.8
	Proportion of female persons aged 18-59 living in jobless household	15.7	16.4	15.4	14.6	13.1	12.4	11.1
	Proportion of persons aged 18-59 living in jobless households	15.2	15.9	14.9	13.7	12.4	11.8	10.5
	Proportion of all persons aged 0-59 living in jobless households	16.7	17.2	15.8	14.5	13.2	12.3	11.0
Note: Households consisting entirely of persons aged 18-24, all of whom have indicated that their Principal Economic Status is Student, are excluded from the above calculations

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Table 2 Number of households classified by NUTS2 and NUTS3 regions and Size of Household
'000
Region/Household size		Q2 11	Q2 12	Q2 13	Q2 14	Q2 15	Q2 16	Q2 17
Border, Midland and Western
	1 person	108.4	113.1	114.7	110.6	105.5	116.5	118.9
	2 persons	138.3	139.9	137.5	135.6	131.8	137.8	141.0
	3 persons	79.5	77.0	80.0	77.4	78.3	77.0	78.9
	4 persons	71.2	70.0	70.4	73.5	71.9	70.6	69.4
	5 persons	39.9	40.7	39.9	38.0	40.8	40.5	40.2
	6 or more persons	20.7	19.8	19.4	20.5	20.2	18.6	19.6
	Total households	457.9	460.6	461.9	455.6	448.5	461.0	468.0
Border
	1 person	47.2	52.4	51.6	47.0	43.4	47.1	53.6
	2 persons	57.8	56.8	55.9	55.7	53.7	57.6	57.6
	3 persons	33.2	28.8	30.8	31.3	29.6	29.8	33.5
	4 persons	27.3	26.9	28.3	29.1	29.9	26.2	26.1
	5 persons	16.2	17.1	17.4	15.8	17.4	17.5	14.5
	6 or more persons	9.8	10.0	8.2	8.6	7.9	8.1	8.6
	Total households	191.4	192.0	192.2	187.4	181.8	186.3	193.9
Midland
	1 person	21.2	21.8	24.0	22.0	23.8	28.2	27.6
	2 persons	31.0	31.1	30.2	31.3	31.5	29.5	29.4
	3 persons	17.7	19.6	19.7	20.5	21.1	19.1	19.6
	4 persons	17.5	17.6	17.6	17.2	16.2	18.6	18.9
	5 persons	9.5	9.9	9.7	9.6	8.9	9.0	9.3
	6 or more persons	4.7	3.8	4.1	4.3	5.3	[4.4]	[4.7]
	Total households	101.7	103.7	105.4	105.0	106.7	108.7	109.5
West
	1 person	40.0	39.0	39.2	41.6	38.3	41.2	37.8
	2 persons	49.5	52.0	51.4	48.5	46.7	50.6	54.0
	3 persons	28.5	28.7	29.4	25.6	27.6	28.1	25.8
	4 persons	26.4	25.5	24.5	27.3	25.8	25.8	24.4
	5 persons	14.2	13.7	12.8	12.7	14.6	14.0	16.3
	6 or more persons	6.2	6.0	7.0	7.5	7.1	6.1	6.3
	Total households	164.8	164.8	164.4	163.2	159.9	165.9	164.7
Southern and Eastern
	1 person	254.4	253.2	266.4	268.2	278.9	296.2	291.7
	2 persons	357.7	364.1	374.0	375.5	361.6	355.8	365.5
	3 persons	229.5	216.9	223.1	220.0	226.8	234.9	215.9
	4 persons	207.0	215.5	214.7	212.2	214.6	217.8	230.5
	5 persons	108.1	111.4	102.8	109.5	107.1	112.9	113.8
	6 or more persons	48.1	46.7	47.1	47.1	51.9	47.2	50.8
	Total households	1,204.8	1,207.8	1,228.1	1,232.6	1,240.8	1,264.8	1,268.2
Dublin
	1 person	89.8	91.5	98.9	105.5	107.2	117.9	117.4
	2 persons	134.3	137.3	146.8	145.2	142.8	144.7	142.4
	3 persons	87.6	83.2	86.4	86.9	90.2	93.1	89.1
	4 persons	76.9	83.8	79.0	78.4	81.2	84.6	86.8
	5 persons	43.0	40.0	36.9	38.4	38.0	41.4	41.0
	6 or more persons	18.4	17.3	17.5	17.5	19.7	14.8	19.0
	Total households	450.0	453.0	465.5	472.0	479.0	496.6	495.9
Mid-East
	1 person	34.4	32.6	32.6	32.8	33.0	36.4	33.4
	2 persons	51.6	54.2	49.3	54.5	48.5	48.4	50.6
	3 persons	33.8	30.3	34.3	32.4	36.9	37.3	32.1
	4 persons	37.5	36.6	36.0	39.2	37.7	39.4	41.9
	5 persons	18.6	21.4	19.6	19.6	19.9	21.3	23.7
	6 or more persons	8.1	8.8	9.9	8.5	9.5	7.9	7.8
	Total households	184.0	183.8	181.7	186.8	185.5	190.7	189.4
Mid-West
	1 person	32.5	34.1	31.7	31.5	31.8	32.9	39.1
	2 persons	42.0	44.0	43.0	42.4	40.1	38.3	40.7
	3 persons	23.8	24.2	23.5	24.1	22.8	26.8	22.7
	4 persons	23.9	22.3	24.6	22.8	23.3	23.6	24.9
	5 persons	11.8	12.4	11.9	12.4	13.5	11.5	10.9
	6 or more persons	5.6	5.4	5.0	5.4	5.6	5.7	5.5
	Total households	139.6	142.4	139.7	138.8	137.3	138.8	143.8
South-East
	1 person	37.4	37.6	44.1	40.9	46.5	47.2	45.6
	2 persons	56.9	55.4	59.1	58.8	58.2	56.0	59.7
	3 persons	36.4	33.8	33.7	33.3	34.8	35.7	29.9
	4 persons	30.7	32.3	32.3	29.8	30.2	28.6	32.7
	5 persons	14.3	16.3	15.6	16.6	14.5	16.5	17.5
	6 or more persons	6.9	6.4	5.3	6.8	7.1	7.5	6.6
	Total households	182.5	181.9	190.2	186.3	191.4	191.5	192.0
South-West
	1 person	60.4	57.4	59.1	57.5	60.4	61.8	56.2
	2 persons	72.8	73.1	75.8	74.6	71.9	68.3	72.1
	3 persons	47.8	45.4	45.1	43.3	42.1	42.1	42.1
	4 persons	37.9	40.5	42.8	41.9	42.0	41.5	44.1
	5 persons	20.5	21.3	18.8	22.4	21.2	22.2	20.7
	6 or more persons	9.1	9.0	9.4	8.9	10.0	11.3	11.8
	Total households	248.6	246.6	250.9	248.7	247.6	247.2	247.0
State
	1 person	362.7	366.3	381.1	378.9	384.4	412.6	410.6
	2 persons	496.0	504.0	511.5	511.1	493.4	493.5	506.5
	3 persons	309.0	294.0	303.1	297.4	305.1	312.0	294.8
	4 persons	278.2	285.5	285.2	285.7	286.5	288.4	299.9
	5 persons	148.0	152.1	142.7	147.5	147.9	153.4	153.9
	6 or more persons	68.8	66.5	66.5	67.6	72.0	65.8	70.4
	Total households	1,662.7	1,668.3	1,690.1	1,688.2	1,689.3	1,725.8	1,736.2
Note: The average grossing factor of all members of a household is used to calculate the number of households. The number of households should be treated as indicative only.

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Table 3 Share of households classified by NUTS2 and NUTS3 regions and Size of Household
%
Region/Household size		Q2 11	Q2 12	Q2 13	Q2 14	Q2 15	Q2 16	Q2 17
Border, Midland and Western
	1 person	23.7	24.6	24.8	24.3	23.5	25.3	25.4
	2 persons	30.2	30.4	29.8	29.8	29.4	29.9	30.1
	3 persons	17.4	16.7	17.3	17.0	17.5	16.7	16.9
	4 persons	15.6	15.2	15.2	16.1	16.0	15.3	14.8
	5 persons	8.7	8.8	8.6	8.3	9.1	8.8	8.6
	6 or more persons	4.5	4.3	4.2	4.5	4.5	4.0	4.2
	Total households	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Border
	1 person	24.6	27.3	26.8	25.1	23.9	25.3	27.6
	2 persons	30.2	29.6	29.1	29.7	29.5	30.9	29.7
	3 persons	17.4	15.0	16.0	16.7	16.3	16.0	17.3
	4 persons	14.3	14.0	14.7	15.5	16.4	14.1	13.4
	5 persons	8.4	8.9	9.0	8.4	9.6	9.4	7.5
	6 or more persons	5.1	5.2	4.3	4.6	4.3	4.4	4.4
	Total households	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Midland
	1 person	20.9	21.0	22.7	21.0	22.3	26.0	25.2
	2 persons	30.5	30.0	28.6	29.9	29.5	27.1	26.8
	3 persons	17.4	18.9	18.7	19.5	19.8	17.6	17.9
	4 persons	17.3	16.9	16.7	16.4	15.2	17.1	17.3
	5 persons	9.4	9.6	9.2	9.1	8.3	8.3	8.5
	6 or more persons	4.6	3.6	3.9	4.1	4.9	4.0	4.3
	Total households	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
West
	1 person	24.3	23.7	23.8	25.5	23.9	24.8	23.0
	2 persons	30.0	31.6	31.3	29.7	29.2	30.5	32.8
	3 persons	17.3	17.4	17.9	15.7	17.3	17.0	15.7
	4 persons	16.0	15.5	14.9	16.7	16.1	15.5	14.8
	5 persons	8.6	8.3	7.8	7.8	9.1	8.5	9.9
	6 or more persons	3.8	3.6	4.3	4.6	4.4	3.7	3.8
	Total households	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Southern and Eastern
	1 person	21.1	21.0	21.7	21.8	22.5	23.4	23.0
	2 persons	29.7	30.1	30.4	30.5	29.1	28.1	28.8
	3 persons	19.1	18.0	18.2	17.9	18.3	18.6	17.0
	4 persons	17.2	17.8	17.5	17.2	17.3	17.2	18.2
	5 persons	9.0	9.2	8.4	8.9	8.6	8.9	9.0
	6 or more persons	4.0	3.9	3.8	3.8	4.2	3.7	4.0
	Total households	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Dublin
	1 person	19.9	20.2	21.3	22.4	22.4	23.7	23.7
	2 persons	29.9	30.3	31.5	30.8	29.8	29.1	28.7
	3 persons	19.5	18.4	18.6	18.4	18.8	18.8	18.0
	4 persons	17.1	18.5	17.0	16.6	17.0	17.0	17.5
	5 persons	9.6	8.8	7.9	8.1	7.9	8.3	8.3
	6 or more persons	4.1	3.8	3.8	3.7	4.1	3.0	3.8
	Total households	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Mid-East
	1 person	18.7	17.7	17.9	17.5	17.8	19.1	17.6
	2 persons	28.0	29.5	27.1	29.1	26.1	25.4	26.7
	3 persons	18.4	16.5	18.9	17.3	19.9	19.6	16.9
	4 persons	20.4	19.9	19.8	21.0	20.4	20.7	22.1
	5 persons	10.1	11.6	10.8	10.5	10.7	11.2	12.5
	6 or more persons	4.4	4.8	5.5	4.6	5.1	4.1	4.1
	Total households	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Mid-West
	1 person	23.3	24.0	22.7	22.7	23.2	23.7	27.2
	2 persons	30.1	30.9	30.8	30.6	29.2	27.6	28.3
	3 persons	17.1	17.0	16.8	17.4	16.6	19.3	15.8
	4 persons	17.1	15.6	17.6	16.5	17.0	17.0	17.3
	5 persons	8.4	8.7	8.5	9.0	9.9	8.3	7.6
	6 or more persons	4.0	3.8	3.6	3.9	4.1	4.1	3.9
	Total households	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
South-East
	1 person	20.5	20.7	23.2	22.0	24.3	24.6	23.8
	2 persons	31.2	30.5	31.1	31.6	30.4	29.2	31.1
	3 persons	19.9	18.6	17.7	17.9	18.2	18.6	15.6
	4 persons	16.8	17.8	17.0	16.0	15.8	15.0	17.0
	5 persons	7.8	8.9	8.2	8.9	7.6	8.6	9.1
	6 or more persons	3.8	3.5	2.8	3.6	3.7	3.9	3.5
	Total households	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
South-West
	1 person	24.3	23.3	23.5	23.1	24.4	25.0	22.7
	2 persons	29.3	29.7	30.2	30.0	29.0	27.6	29.2
	3 persons	19.2	18.4	18.0	17.4	17.0	17.0	17.0
	4 persons	15.3	16.4	17.1	16.9	17.0	16.8	17.9
	5 persons	8.3	8.6	7.5	9.0	8.6	9.0	8.4
	6 or more persons	3.7	3.6	3.7	3.6	4.0	4.6	4.8
	Total households	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
State
	1 person	21.8	22.0	22.6	22.4	22.8	23.9	23.6
	2 persons	29.8	30.2	30.3	30.3	29.2	28.6	29.2
	3 persons	18.6	17.6	17.9	17.6	18.1	18.1	17.0
	4 persons	16.7	17.1	16.9	16.9	17.0	16.7	17.3
	5 persons	8.9	9.1	8.4	8.7	8.8	8.9	8.9
	6 or more persons	4.1	4.0	3.9	4.0	4.3	3.8	4.1
	Total households	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
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Region/Household by age of persons		Q2 11	Q2 12	Q2 13	Q2 14	Q2 15	Q2 16	Q2 17
Border, Midland and Western
	Household without person aged less than 18	284.3	287.3	287.4	284.2	275.8	292.3	297.6
	Household with person aged less than 18	173.6	173.3	174.6	171.4	172.7	168.6	170.4
	Total households	457.9	460.6	461.9	455.6	448.5	461.0	468.0
Border
	Household without person aged less than 18	118.4	120.3	120.8	117.1	111.3	118.1	124.8
	Household with person aged less than 18	73.0	71.7	71.4	70.3	70.4	68.2	69.1
	Total households	191.4	192.0	192.2	187.4	181.8	186.3	193.9
Midland
	Household without person aged less than 18	60.8	61.2	62.4	61.0	64.8	66.2	65.6
	Household with person aged less than 18	40.8	42.5	43.0	44.0	42.0	42.5	43.9
	Total households	101.7	103.7	105.4	105.0	106.7	108.7	109.5
West
	Household without person aged less than 18	105.1	105.8	104.2	106.1	99.7	108.0	107.2
	Household with person aged less than 18	59.8	59.1	60.2	57.1	60.2	57.9	57.5
	Total households	164.8	164.8	164.4	163.2	159.9	165.9	164.7
Southern and Eastern
	Household without person aged less than 18	749.7	742.0	762.2	771.1	777.1	804.8	796.6
	Household with person aged less than 18	455.1	465.8	465.9	461.5	463.7	460.1	471.5
	Total households	1,204.8	1,207.8	1,228.1	1,232.6	1,240.8	1,264.8	1,268.2
Dublin
	Household without person aged less than 18	288.5	286.2	299.9	307.9	307.7	329.0	320.8
	Household with person aged less than 18	161.5	166.8	165.7	164.2	171.4	167.6	175.0
	Total households	450.0	453.0	465.5	472.0	479.0	496.6	495.9
Mid-East
	Household without person aged less than 18	103.1	101.3	97.8	102.7	103.0	108.3	104.9
	Household with person aged less than 18	80.9	82.5	84.0	84.1	82.5	82.4	84.5
	Total households	184.0	183.8	181.7	186.8	185.5	190.7	189.4
Mid-West
	Household without person aged less than 18	87.8	90.6	88.2	87.8	86.4	88.5	93.3
	Household with person aged less than 18	51.8	51.8	51.5	51.0	50.8	50.2	50.5
	Total households	139.6	142.4	139.7	138.8	137.3	138.8	143.8
South-East
	Household without person aged less than 18	111.9	109.0	117.1	115.4	120.5	122.0	119.9
	Household with person aged less than 18	70.6	72.9	73.1	70.9	70.9	69.6	72.1
	Total households	182.5	181.9	190.2	186.3	191.4	191.5	192.0
South-West
	Household without person aged less than 18	158.3	154.9	159.2	157.4	159.5	157.0	157.7
	Household with person aged less than 18	90.2	91.7	91.7	91.3	88.2	90.2	89.3
	Total households	248.6	246.6	250.9	248.7	247.6	247.2	247.0
State
	Household without person aged less than 18	1,034.0	1,029.3	1,049.6	1,055.4	1,052.9	1,097.1	1,094.2
	Household with person aged less than 18	628.7	639.0	640.5	632.8	636.4	628.7	641.9
	Total households	1,662.7	1,668.3	1,690.1	1,688.2	1,689.3	1,725.8	1,736.2
Note: The average grossing factor of all members of a household is used to calculate the number of households. The number of households should be treated as indicative only.

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%
Region/Household by age of persons		Q2 11	Q2 12	Q2 13	Q2 14	Q2 15	Q2 16	Q2 17
Border, Midland and Western
	Household without person aged less than 18	62.1	62.4	62.2	62.4	61.5	63.4	63.6
	Household with person aged less than 18	37.9	37.6	37.8	37.6	38.5	36.6	36.4
	Total households	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Border
	Household without person aged less than 18	61.9	62.6	62.8	62.5	61.3	63.4	64.4
	Household with person aged less than 18	38.1	37.4	37.2	37.5	38.7	36.6	35.6
	Total households	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Midland
	Household without person aged less than 18	59.8	59.0	59.2	58.1	60.7	60.9	59.9
	Household with person aged less than 18	40.2	41.0	40.8	41.9	39.3	39.1	40.1
	Total households	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
West
	Household without person aged less than 18	63.7	64.2	63.4	65.0	62.3	65.1	65.1
	Household with person aged less than 18	36.3	35.8	36.6	35.0	37.7	34.9	34.9
	Total households	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Southern and Eastern
	Household without person aged less than 18	62.2	61.4	62.1	62.6	62.6	63.6	62.8
	Household with person aged less than 18	37.8	38.6	37.9	37.4	37.4	36.4	37.2
	Total households	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Dublin
	Household without person aged less than 18	64.1	63.2	64.4	65.2	64.2	66.2	64.7
	Household with person aged less than 18	35.9	36.8	35.6	34.8	35.8	33.8	35.3
	Total households	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Mid-East
	Household without person aged less than 18	56.0	55.1	53.8	55.0	55.6	56.8	55.4
	Household with person aged less than 18	44.0	44.9	46.2	45.0	44.4	43.2	44.6
	Total households	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Mid-West
	Household without person aged less than 18	62.9	63.6	63.1	63.2	63.0	63.8	64.9
	Household with person aged less than 18	37.1	36.4	36.9	36.8	37.0	36.2	35.1
	Total households	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
South-East
	Household without person aged less than 18	61.3	59.9	61.6	61.9	62.9	63.7	62.4
	Household with person aged less than 18	38.7	40.1	38.4	38.1	37.1	36.3	37.6
	Total households	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
South-West
	Household without person aged less than 18	63.7	62.8	63.5	63.3	64.4	63.5	63.8
	Household with person aged less than 18	36.3	37.2	36.5	36.7	35.6	36.5	36.2
	Total households	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
State
	Household without person aged less than 18	62.2	61.7	62.1	62.5	62.3	63.6	63.0
	Household with person aged less than 18	37.8	38.3	37.9	37.5	37.7	36.4	37.0
	Total households	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Note: The average grossing factor of all members of a household is used to calculate the number of households. The number of households should be treated as indicative only.

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Region/Household type		Q2 11	Q2 12	Q2 13	Q2 14	Q2 15	Q2 16	Q2 17
Border, Midland and Western
	Single person household	108.4	113.1	114.7	110.6	105.5	116.5	118.9
	Couple with no children household (with/without other persons)	100.6	101.6	101.4	100.9	97.4	103.7	102.1
	Couple with children household (with/without other persons)	174.1	168.7	172.0	172.7	176.7	171.2	170.0
	Lone parent household (with/without other persons)	54.4	53.6	52.4	50.7	51.0	50.6	56.0
	Two or more family unit household (with/without other persons)	4.5	4.5	[3.6]	[4.3]	[4.3]	[4.6]	[4.4]
	All other households	16.0	19.0	17.9	16.4	13.6	14.5	16.7
	Total households	457.9	460.6	461.9	455.6	448.5	461.0	468.0
Border
	Single person household	47.2	52.4	51.6	47.0	43.4	47.1	53.6
	Couple with no children household (with/without other persons)	39.4	40.0	40.8	41.6	37.6	43.2	42.5
	Couple with children household (with/without other persons)	70.2	65.8	70.9	69.5	69.3	68.3	67.0
	Lone parent household (with/without other persons)	25.1	24.7	21.9	21.9	23.9	20.7	23.9
	Two or more family unit household (with/without other persons)	*	[2.7]	*	*	*	*	*
	All other households	7.4	6.5	5.9	5.4	5.5	5.1	5.2
	Total households	191.4	192.0	192.2	187.4	181.8	186.3	193.9
Midland
	Single person household	21.2	21.8	24.0	22.0	23.8	28.2	27.6
	Couple with no children household (with/without other persons)	22.8	22.0	23.5	23.1	24.4	22.2	18.9
	Couple with children household (with/without other persons)	41.6	43.1	41.9	43.6	42.9	43.0	43.6
	Lone parent household (with/without other persons)	12.1	12.0	12.0	12.4	11.5	12.5	15.3
	Two or more family unit household (with/without other persons)	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	All other households	[2.5]	4.0	[3.2]	[3.3]	[3.0]	*	*
	Total households	101.7	103.7	105.4	105.0	106.7	108.7	109.5
West
	Single person household	40.0	39.0	39.2	41.6	38.3	41.2	37.8
	Couple with no children household (with/without other persons)	38.5	39.6	37.1	36.3	35.4	38.3	40.7
	Couple with children household (with/without other persons)	62.3	59.9	59.1	59.6	64.5	59.8	59.4
	Lone parent household (with/without other persons)	17.2	16.9	18.5	16.4	15.7	17.4	16.7
	Two or more family unit household (with/without other persons)	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	All other households	6.1	8.5	8.8	7.7	5.1	7.6	8.5
	Total households	164.8	164.8	164.4	163.2	159.9	165.9	164.7
Southern and Eastern
	Single person household	254.4	253.2	266.4	268.2	278.9	296.2	291.7
	Couple with no children household (with/without other persons)	259.8	261.7	268.9	265.6	267.9	267.1	267.3
	Couple with children household (with/without other persons)	464.2	463.5	470.4	468.4	468.6	473.0	478.0
	Lone parent household (with/without other persons)	148.2	149.1	143.2	142.7	140.0	144.7	144.7
	Two or more family unit household (with/without other persons)	16.0	17.5	15.9	16.5	19.9	21.9	23.3
	All other households	62.2	62.7	63.3	71.1	65.5	61.9	63.3
	Total households	1,204.8	1,207.8	1,228.1	1,232.6	1,240.8	1,264.8	1,268.2
Dublin
	Single person household	89.8	91.5	98.9	105.5	107.2	117.9	117.4
	Couple with no children household (with/without other persons)	97.2	92.8	99.1	99.5	101.5	105.0	99.8
	Couple with children household (with/without other persons)	165.7	164.8	166.7	165.3	165.9	163.2	166.4
	Lone parent household (with/without other persons)	59.5	62.4	59.7	55.3	57.1	60.3	63.5
	Two or more family unit household (with/without other persons)	8.1	8.9	7.9	8.4	10.5	12.1	13.0
	All other households	29.9	32.5	33.1	38.0	36.8	38.1	35.8
	Total households	450.0	453.0	465.5	472.0	479.0	496.6	495.9
Mid-East
	Single person household	34.4	32.6	32.6	32.8	33.0	36.4	33.4
	Couple with no children household (with/without other persons)	37.8	41.7	38.5	40.2	38.0	38.5	35.9
	Couple with children household (with/without other persons)	81.5	81.8	85.0	84.6	85.7	86.9	88.9
	Lone parent household (with/without other persons)	23.0	19.1	18.4	21.6	20.7	20.8	20.1
	Two or more family unit household (with/without other persons)	*	[2.5]	*	*	*	*	*
	All other households	5.6	6.1	[4.8]	5.7	[5.1]	[4.8]	7.7
	Total households	184.0	183.8	181.7	186.8	185.5	190.7	189.4
Mid-West
	Single person household	32.5	34.1	31.7	31.5	31.8	32.9	39.1
	Couple with no children household (with/without other persons)	31.3	33.9	32.6	31.7	30.4	30.7	29.5
	Couple with children household (with/without other persons)	54.0	53.1	53.0	51.9	54.6	55.6	53.4
	Lone parent household (with/without other persons)	14.5	14.7	14.4	15.2	12.4	14.1	15.4
	Two or more family unit household (with/without other persons)	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	All other households	6.0	5.2	6.4	6.7	6.1	[3.8]	[5.4]
	Total households	139.6	142.4	139.7	138.8	137.3	138.8	143.8
South-East
	Single person household	37.4	37.6	44.1	40.9	46.5	47.2	45.6
	Couple with no children household (with/without other persons)	41.3	41.1	45.0	42.7	43.1	41.7	46.9
	Couple with children household (with/without other persons)	68.8	71.9	71.1	72.7	70.4	71.4	71.6
	Lone parent household (with/without other persons)	24.0	22.8	21.6	21.4	23.2	22.5	20.6
	Two or more family unit household (with/without other persons)	[2.7]	[2.2]	*	*	*	*	*
	All other households	8.4	6.3	6.6	6.7	6.3	6.5	[4.8]
	Total households	182.5	181.9	190.2	186.3	191.4	191.5	192.0
South-West
	Single person household	60.4	57.4	59.1	57.5	60.4	61.8	56.2
	Couple with no children household (with/without other persons)	52.2	52.1	53.7	51.4	54.8	51.3	55.2
	Couple with children household (with/without other persons)	94.2	91.8	94.5	93.9	92.1	95.9	97.7
	Lone parent household (with/without other persons)	27.3	30.0	29.2	29.3	26.6	27.0	25.1
	Two or more family unit household (with/without other persons)	[2.2]	[2.5]	*	[2.6]	[2.7]	*	*
	All other households	12.4	12.7	12.4	14.0	11.1	8.8	9.6
	Total households	248.6	246.6	250.9	248.7	247.6	247.2	247.0
State
	Single person household	362.7	366.3	381.1	378.9	384.4	412.6	410.6
	Couple with no children household (with/without other persons)	360.4	363.3	370.3	366.5	365.3	370.8	369.3
	Couple with children household (with/without other persons)	638.2	632.2	642.3	641.1	645.3	644.2	648.0
	Lone parent household (with/without other persons)	202.6	202.7	195.7	193.4	191.1	195.3	200.6
	Two or more family unit household (with/without other persons)	20.5	22.0	19.5	20.8	24.1	26.5	27.7
	All other households	78.2	81.7	81.2	87.5	79.1	76.4	80.0
	Total households	1,662.7	1,668.3	1,690.1	1,688.2	1,689.3	1,725.8	1,736.2
Note: The average grossing factor of all members of a household is used to calculate the number of households. The number of households should be treated as indicative only.

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Region/Family unit type/ILO Economic Status/Sex		Q2 11	Q2 12	Q2 13	Q2 14	Q2 15	Q2 16	Q2 17
Border, Midland and Western
Couple without children
In employment
	Male	50.7	50.0	51.8	52.6	50.7	53.2	54.0
	Female	47.2	44.9	42.1	41.5	40.6	45.5	41.6
	Total	97.9	94.9	93.9	94.1	91.3	98.7	95.6
Unemployed
	Male	7.2	7.1	6.0	5.3	[3.9]	[3.5]	*
	Female	[4.1]	4.7	[3.4]	*	*	*	*
	Total	11.3	11.8	9.4	7.7	5.7	6.1	[4.5]
Not in the labour force
	Male	46.1	48.3	45.2	44.4	45.4	49.2	49.3
	Female	50.5	54.3	56.9	58.1	56.9	58.7	60.0
	Total	96.5	102.6	102.1	102.5	102.3	107.9	109.3
Total
	Male	103.9	105.4	103.0	102.2	99.9	105.9	105.4
	Female	101.8	103.8	102.4	102.0	99.3	106.8	103.9
	Total	205.7	209.3	205.4	204.3	199.2	212.7	209.4
Couple with children
In employment
	Male	131.0	126.2	135.8	139.5	147.7	142.5	144.1
	Female	100.2	94.7	96.5	99.2	106.9	102.1	104.4
	Total	231.2	220.9	232.3	238.8	254.6	244.6	248.6
Unemployed
	Male	24.7	25.3	19.9	17.3	15.1	10.9	9.2
	Female	9.4	11.0	10.9	8.3	6.5	5.9	*
	Total	34.1	36.3	30.8	25.6	21.6	16.9	11.9
Not in the labour force
	Male	28.5	28.3	24.8	23.8	20.7	21.3	26.0
	Female	68.5	67.4	66.9	66.8	63.8	62.9	62.1
	Total	97.0	95.7	91.7	90.5	84.5	84.2	88.1
Total
	Male	184.1	179.8	180.6	180.6	183.6	174.8	179.3
	Female	178.1	173.0	174.2	174.3	177.2	170.9	169.2
	Total	362.2	352.8	354.8	354.9	360.8	345.6	348.6
Lone parent
In employment
	Male	[2.4]	[2.6]	[2.9]	[3.2]	*	[4.1]	[4.8]
	Female	22.3	22.4	22.9	21.1	19.5	20.9	24.7
	Total	24.7	25.0	25.7	24.3	21.8	25.0	29.5
Unemployed
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	4.2	4.4	5.5	[4.4]	[3.3]	*	*
	Total	5.0	5.0	5.9	5.1	[4.2]	[3.6]	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	[2.9]	[3.2]	[3.2]	[3.4]	4.8	[2.7]	*
	Female	26.2	24.9	21.9	23.5	25.1	23.0	24.5
	Total	29.0	28.1	25.1	26.9	29.9	25.7	26.6
Total
	Male	6.1	6.4	6.5	7.3	8.0	7.3	7.3
	Female	52.6	51.7	50.3	49.1	47.9	46.9	51.9
	Total	58.7	58.1	56.7	56.4	55.9	54.2	59.3
All family units
In employment
	Male	184.1	178.8	190.6	195.3	200.7	199.8	202.9
	Female	169.7	162.0	161.4	161.9	167.0	168.5	170.7
	Total	353.7	340.8	352.0	357.2	367.7	368.3	373.7
Unemployed
	Male	32.7	33.0	26.2	23.3	19.9	15.0	11.8
	Female	17.7	20.0	19.8	15.1	11.6	11.5	7.7
	Total	50.4	53.0	46.1	38.4	31.5	26.5	19.5
Not in the labour force
	Male	77.4	79.8	73.3	71.5	70.9	73.1	77.3
	Female	145.1	146.5	145.6	148.4	145.8	144.6	146.6
	Total	222.5	226.3	218.9	220.0	216.7	217.7	224.0
Total
	Male	294.2	291.6	290.1	290.1	291.5	287.9	292.0
	Female	332.5	328.5	326.9	325.4	324.4	324.6	325.1
	Total	626.7	620.2	616.9	615.5	615.9	612.5	617.2
Border
Couple without children
In employment
	Male	19.2	17.1	19.5	19.3	18.3	22.2	21.1
	Female	16.7	16.2	15.5	15.7	14.0	18.1	16.6
	Total	35.9	33.4	35.0	35.0	32.3	40.3	37.7
Unemployed
	Male	*	[3.4]	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	[3.6]	5.6	[2.9]	*	*	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	19.7	21.1	20.0	20.7	19.1	20.8	21.2
	Female	21.4	22.9	24.3	25.4	23.9	25.3	26.2
	Total	41.1	44.0	44.2	46.1	43.0	46.1	47.4
Total
	Male	41.2	41.6	41.3	41.8	38.8	44.3	43.4
	Female	39.4	41.3	40.9	42.0	38.6	44.2	43.6
	Total	80.6	83.0	82.2	83.9	77.4	88.5	87.0
Couple with children
In employment
	Male	53.1	48.7	53.3	54.0	56.7	54.7	56.7
	Female	38.7	35.0	37.5	39.1	42.8	42.5	40.2
	Total	91.8	83.8	90.8	93.1	99.5	97.2	96.8
Unemployed
	Male	8.2	9.8	7.9	6.4	5.8	[4.6]	*
	Female	[3.8]	[3.8]	[4.5]	[3.5]	*	*	*
	Total	12.0	13.7	12.4	9.9	7.6	6.6	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	13.5	14.2	12.5	12.0	10.4	10.1	11.5
	Female	29.0	28.8	30.3	28.2	26.0	24.1	25.2
	Total	42.5	43.1	42.8	40.1	36.4	34.2	36.7
Total
	Male	74.8	72.8	73.7	72.4	72.9	69.4	70.7
	Female	71.5	67.7	72.2	70.8	70.7	68.6	66.0
	Total	146.3	140.5	145.9	143.1	143.6	138.0	136.7
Lone parent
In employment
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	10.5	10.5	9.1	8.8	9.7	8.1	9.8
	Total	11.3	11.7	9.8	10.2	10.8	9.8	11.8
Unemployed
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	*	*	[2.9]	*	*	*	*
	Total	*	*	[2.9]	*	*	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	*	*	*	*	[2.6]	*	*
	Female	12.8	12.0	9.7	11.4	11.8	10.2	11.6
	Total	14.2	13.6	11.1	12.7	14.4	11.7	12.3
Total
	Male	*	[3.2]	*	[3.1]	[4.2]	[3.3]	*
	Female	24.9	23.9	21.7	21.7	23.1	19.0	22.6
	Total	27.5	27.1	23.9	24.9	27.2	22.3	25.3
All family units
In employment
	Male	73.1	67.1	73.6	74.7	76.2	78.6	79.7
	Female	65.9	61.7	62.1	63.5	66.4	68.7	66.6
	Total	139.1	128.8	135.6	138.2	142.7	147.2	146.4
Unemployed
	Male	10.7	13.6	9.7	8.6	7.5	6.1	[3.6]
	Female	6.7	7.4	8.5	6.1	[4.1]	[3.5]	*
	Total	17.4	21.1	18.2	14.7	11.6	9.7	6.1
Not in the labour force
	Male	34.7	36.9	34.0	34.0	32.1	32.3	33.4
	Female	63.2	63.7	64.2	64.9	61.8	59.7	63.0
	Total	97.9	100.6	98.2	98.9	93.9	92.0	96.4
Total
	Male	118.5	117.7	117.3	117.3	115.8	117.0	116.7
	Female	135.8	132.9	134.7	134.5	132.3	131.8	132.2
	Total	254.3	250.5	252.0	251.8	248.2	248.9	248.9
Midland
Couple without children
In employment
	Male	12.7	11.3	11.7	13.4	13.6	10.7	10.1
	Female	11.8	9.1	9.7	10.6	11.4	9.6	7.5
	Total	24.5	20.4	21.3	24.0	25.0	20.3	17.6
Unemployed
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	[3.4]	[2.8]	*	*	*	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	9.2	10.0	10.2	9.4	10.1	11.5	10.0
	Female	10.2	12.3	13.2	11.9	13.0	12.3	11.5
	Total	19.4	22.3	23.5	21.3	23.2	23.8	21.4
Total
	Male	23.9	23.0	23.7	23.8	24.8	23.0	20.2
	Female	23.4	22.4	23.9	22.8	24.9	22.3	19.2
	Total	47.3	45.5	47.6	46.6	49.8	45.3	39.4
Couple with children
In employment
	Male	30.2	30.7	32.3	34.9	35.3	37.1	37.4
	Female	22.7	23.3	23.4	23.9	23.1	23.1	25.8
	Total	52.9	54.0	55.7	58.8	58.4	60.1	63.2
Unemployed
	Male	6.9	6.5	5.8	5.1	[4.4]	*	*
	Female	*	[3.2]	[3.0]	*	*	*	*
	Total	8.7	9.7	8.7	7.0	6.1	[4.0]	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	7.4	6.4	5.8	4.8	[3.9]	[4.7]	6.7
	Female	18.1	18.4	16.2	17.4	16.2	17.3	16.5
	Total	25.4	24.8	22.0	22.2	20.0	22.0	23.2
Total
	Male	44.5	43.5	43.8	44.7	43.5	44.0	47.3
	Female	42.6	44.9	42.5	43.3	41.0	42.1	42.8
	Total	87.1	88.5	86.4	88.0	84.5	86.1	90.0
Lone parent
In employment
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	4.5	5.0	4.7	5.0	4.4	5.9	7.3
	Total	5.1	5.5	5.8	5.8	4.8	7.0	9.0
Unemployed
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	6.6	5.5	5.1	5.2	4.9	4.9	5.6
	Total	7.0	6.2	6.0	5.9	6.1	5.4	6.0
Total
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	11.8	11.6	10.8	11.6	10.3	11.7	13.9
	Total	13.1	13.0	13.0	13.1	12.2	13.3	16.1
All family units
In employment
	Male	43.6	42.5	45.0	49.0	49.4	48.9	49.2
	Female	38.9	37.4	37.8	39.5	38.8	38.5	40.6
	Total	82.5	79.9	82.8	88.6	88.2	87.4	89.7
Unemployed
	Male	9.1	8.4	7.8	6.2	5.6	*	*
	Female	[4.1]	5.4	4.9	[3.6]	[3.3]	*	*
	Total	13.2	13.8	12.7	9.8	9.0	6.2	[5.2]
Not in the labour force
	Male	16.9	17.0	16.9	14.8	15.2	16.8	17.1
	Female	34.9	36.3	34.5	34.6	34.1	34.4	33.5
	Total	51.8	53.3	51.4	49.4	49.3	51.2	50.6
Total
	Male	69.6	67.9	69.7	70.1	70.2	68.6	69.7
	Female	77.9	79.0	77.2	77.7	76.2	76.1	75.9
	Total	147.5	146.9	146.9	147.8	146.5	144.7	145.6
West
Couple without children
In employment
	Male	18.8	21.5	20.6	19.9	18.7	20.3	22.9
	Female	18.7	19.6	16.9	15.2	15.3	17.8	17.5
	Total	37.5	41.1	37.6	35.1	34.0	38.1	40.3
Unemployed
	Male	[2.9]	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	4.3	[3.4]	[3.7]	[3.6]	*	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	17.2	17.3	15.0	14.3	16.2	16.8	18.1
	Female	18.9	19.0	19.4	20.8	19.9	21.2	22.4
	Total	36.0	36.3	34.4	35.1	36.1	38.0	40.4
Total
	Male	38.9	40.8	38.0	36.6	36.3	38.6	41.8
	Female	38.9	40.1	37.7	37.2	35.7	40.2	41.2
	Total	77.8	80.8	75.7	73.8	72.0	78.8	83.0
Couple with children
In employment
	Male	47.7	46.8	50.3	50.7	55.7	50.8	50.0
	Female	38.8	36.3	35.6	36.2	41.0	36.6	38.5
	Total	86.4	83.1	85.9	86.9	96.7	87.3	88.6
Unemployed
	Male	9.6	9.0	6.2	5.8	[5.0]	[4.1]	[3.6]
	Female	[3.7]	3.9	[3.5]	[2.8]	*	*	*
	Total	13.4	12.9	9.7	8.6	7.9	6.3	[5.1]
Not in the labour force
	Male	7.6	7.7	6.5	7.0	6.5	6.5	7.7
	Female	21.4	20.2	20.4	21.2	21.6	21.5	20.4
	Total	29.0	27.8	26.9	28.2	28.1	28.0	28.1
Total
	Male	64.9	63.5	63.0	63.5	67.2	61.4	61.4
	Female	64.0	60.4	59.5	60.2	65.5	60.2	60.4
	Total	128.8	123.9	122.5	123.7	132.7	121.5	121.8
Lone parent
In employment
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	7.3	7.0	9.1	7.4	5.5	6.9	7.5
	Total	8.2	7.8	10.1	8.3	6.1	8.3	8.7
Unemployed
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	6.8	7.4	7.1	6.9	8.4	7.9	7.3
	Total	7.8	8.3	8.0	8.4	9.3	8.6	8.3
Total
	Male	*	*	*	[2.6]	*	*	*
	Female	15.9	16.2	17.8	15.7	14.6	16.2	15.5
	Total	18.2	18.0	19.9	18.3	16.5	18.6	17.9
All family units
In employment
	Male	67.3	69.2	72.0	71.5	75.1	72.4	74.1
	Female	64.8	62.9	61.6	58.8	61.7	61.3	63.5
	Total	132.2	132.1	133.5	130.4	136.8	133.7	137.6
Unemployed
	Male	12.9	11.0	8.7	8.5	6.8	5.9	[4.7]
	Female	6.9	7.2	6.5	5.4	[4.2]	[4.8]	*
	Total	19.8	18.2	15.2	13.9	10.9	10.7	8.2
Not in the labour force
	Male	25.8	25.9	22.4	22.7	23.6	24.0	26.8
	Female	47.1	46.6	46.9	48.9	49.9	50.6	50.0
	Total	72.8	72.4	69.3	71.7	73.5	74.6	76.9
Total
	Male	106.0	106.0	103.1	102.7	105.4	102.3	105.6
	Female	118.8	116.7	114.9	113.1	115.8	116.6	117.0
	Total	224.8	222.7	218.0	215.9	221.2	219.0	222.7
Southern and Eastern
Couple without children
In employment
	Male	144.0	140.2	139.7	141.8	146.5	151.6	147.1
	Female	127.6	122.5	124.9	126.1	126.7	132.4	132.8
	Total	271.6	262.7	264.6	267.9	273.2	284.0	279.9
Unemployed
	Male	16.1	15.2	14.5	12.9	11.4	8.0	[5.8]
	Female	9.0	7.9	7.7	7.8	7.1	6.7	*
	Total	25.1	23.1	22.2	20.7	18.5	14.7	9.6
Not in the labour force
	Male	111.1	119.2	126.0	122.8	123.1	120.6	126.8
	Female	129.0	137.7	144.1	138.2	140.0	139.3	145.8
	Total	240.1	256.9	270.1	260.9	263.1	259.8	272.6
Total
	Male	271.2	274.6	280.1	277.4	280.9	280.1	279.7
	Female	265.6	268.1	276.8	272.0	273.9	278.4	282.4
	Total	536.8	542.7	556.9	549.5	554.8	558.6	562.2
Couple with children
In employment
	Male	369.2	377.3	384.4	393.1	404.4	402.3	420.7
	Female	272.2	276.1	281.4	288.2	297.5	300.0	312.5
	Total	641.4	653.4	665.9	681.3	701.9	702.3	733.2
Unemployed
	Male	55.9	58.2	51.6	40.5	33.3	29.6	19.4
	Female	24.2	25.3	27.9	21.4	18.9	17.1	8.8
	Total	80.1	83.5	79.5	61.8	52.2	46.7	28.2
Not in the labour force
	Male	68.5	65.2	60.6	59.9	60.8	59.9	61.6
	Female	184.9	179.8	177.2	173.2	169.4	172.2	176.3
	Total	253.4	245.0	237.7	233.1	230.2	232.2	237.9
Total
	Male	493.6	500.6	496.6	493.5	498.5	491.8	501.6
	Female	481.2	481.2	486.5	482.7	485.8	489.3	497.6
	Total	974.8	981.8	983.1	976.2	984.3	981.1	999.3
Lone parent
In employment
	Male	9.0	7.8	8.9	9.7	9.8	10.2	9.6
	Female	63.7	64.5	64.6	61.3	66.4	71.4	74.5
	Total	72.7	72.3	73.5	71.0	76.2	81.6	84.1
Unemployed
	Male	[2.9]	[2.6]	[2.9]	*	*	*	*
	Female	13.1	13.8	14.9	10.3	10.9	7.7	8.0
	Total	16.0	16.4	17.8	13.1	12.6	9.3	8.8
Not in the labour force
	Male	9.0	9.6	8.5	9.6	7.2	8.8	8.5
	Female	69.5	72.7	62.4	67.6	67.0	66.8	66.4
	Total	78.5	82.3	70.8	77.3	74.2	75.6	74.9
Total
	Male	20.9	20.0	20.3	22.1	18.8	20.6	18.9
	Female	146.2	151.0	141.8	139.2	144.3	145.9	148.9
	Total	167.1	171.0	162.1	161.3	163.1	166.5	167.8
All family units
In employment
	Male	522.2	525.2	533.0	544.6	560.7	564.1	577.3
	Female	463.5	463.2	470.9	475.5	490.6	503.8	519.8
	Total	985.6	988.4	1,003.9	1,020.2	1,051.3	1,067.8	1,097.1
Unemployed
	Male	74.9	76.0	68.9	56.1	46.3	39.1	26.0
	Female	46.2	47.1	50.5	39.4	37.0	31.5	20.6
	Total	121.1	123.0	119.5	95.6	83.3	70.6	46.6
Not in the labour force
	Male	188.6	194.0	195.0	192.3	191.1	189.3	196.9
	Female	383.4	390.1	383.6	379.0	376.4	378.3	388.5
	Total	572.0	584.1	578.7	571.3	567.6	567.6	585.5
Total
	Male	785.7	795.2	797.0	793.1	798.2	792.5	800.3
	Female	893.0	900.4	905.1	893.9	904.0	913.6	928.9
	Total	1,678.7	1,695.6	1,702.0	1,687.0	1,702.2	1,706.1	1,729.2
Dublin
Couple without children
In employment
	Male	57.4	52.2	56.2	61.3	58.7	66.1	63.5
	Female	51.4	47.4	50.0	55.6	51.7	56.7	55.3
	Total	108.7	99.6	106.1	116.9	110.5	122.8	118.8
Unemployed
	Male	[5.2]	[4.8]	[5.2]	[3.9]	[4.1]	*	*
	Female	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	8.2	7.3	7.7	6.0	5.8	[6.6]	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	38.8	41.0	43.6	40.8	46.8	43.2	43.1
	Female	46.3	47.5	50.9	44.5	49.5	51.7	49.1
	Total	85.1	88.5	94.4	85.3	96.3	94.9	92.2
Total
	Male	101.3	98.0	105.0	106.0	109.7	112.4	108.5
	Female	100.7	97.4	103.2	102.2	103.0	111.9	105.4
	Total	202.1	195.4	208.2	208.2	212.6	224.3	213.9
Couple with children
In employment
	Male	134.9	134.4	137.0	141.4	147.4	137.5	153.7
	Female	99.4	100.6	103.7	102.0	106.8	109.1	112.2
	Total	234.3	235.1	240.6	243.4	254.2	246.6	266.0
Unemployed
	Male	14.7	17.5	16.5	12.8	10.1	11.3	7.4
	Female	6.6	8.3	8.5	8.1	6.5	[6.1]	[4.2]
	Total	21.3	25.8	25.0	20.9	16.7	17.5	11.6
Not in the labour force
	Male	27.3	26.8	24.7	24.7	24.7	21.0	23.5
	Female	67.2	64.9	65.7	63.3	63.0	56.7	63.6
	Total	94.5	91.7	90.5	88.0	87.7	77.8	87.1
Total
	Male	176.8	178.7	178.2	178.9	182.2	169.9	184.5
	Female	173.2	173.8	177.9	173.4	176.3	172.0	180.0
	Total	350.0	352.5	356.1	352.3	358.6	341.8	364.6
Lone parent
In employment
	Male	[3.3]	[2.9]	[3.8]	[3.3]	[3.8]	[5.2]	[4.5]
	Female	26.4	28.9	28.2	26.7	29.3	29.9	35.6
	Total	29.6	31.9	32.0	30.0	33.1	35.1	40.1
Unemployed
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	5.4	[4.2]	6.0	[3.7]	[3.1]	*	[3.9]
	Total	6.6	5.2	7.0	4.9	[3.8]	[3.5]	[4.3]
Not in the labour force
	Male	[2.6]	4.8	[3.9]	[3.9]	*	[3.8]	[4.1]
	Female	29.9	31.1	26.5	26.6	29.9	29.8	29.1
	Total	32.5	35.9	30.4	30.5	32.6	33.6	33.3
Total
	Male	7.1	8.7	8.7	8.4	7.3	9.4	9.1
	Female	61.7	64.2	60.7	57.0	62.2	62.8	68.6
	Total	68.8	72.9	69.4	65.4	69.5	72.2	77.7
All family units
In employment
	Male	195.5	189.5	197.0	206.0	209.9	208.8	221.7
	Female	177.1	177.0	181.8	184.3	187.9	195.8	203.1
	Total	372.7	366.5	378.8	390.3	397.8	404.5	424.8
Unemployed
	Male	21.1	23.3	22.7	17.9	15.0	14.9	9.7
	Female	15.1	15.0	17.0	13.9	11.3	12.7	9.1
	Total	36.2	38.3	39.7	31.8	26.4	27.5	18.9
Not in the labour force
	Male	68.7	72.6	72.2	69.3	74.2	68.0	70.7
	Female	143.4	143.5	143.1	134.4	142.3	138.2	141.8
	Total	212.1	216.0	215.3	203.7	216.6	206.2	212.6
Total
	Male	285.3	285.4	291.9	293.3	299.2	291.6	302.2
	Female	335.6	335.4	341.8	332.6	341.5	346.7	354.1
	Total	620.9	620.9	633.7	625.9	640.7	638.3	656.2
Mid-East
Couple without children
In employment
	Male	23.4	25.3	21.4	21.3	20.8	22.5	20.1
	Female	19.9	20.8	18.8	18.4	18.1	21.6	20.0
	Total	43.4	46.1	40.2	39.7	39.0	44.1	40.1
Unemployed
	Male	*	[2.8]	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	4.2	4.4	*	[3.7]	*	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	14.2	16.4	16.8	17.9	17.1	18.3	18.2
	Female	16.2	20.5	20.2	21.5	19.9	18.3	17.5
	Total	30.4	36.9	37.0	39.4	37.0	36.6	35.7
Total
	Male	40.0	44.5	40.0	41.6	38.8	41.7	38.7
	Female	37.9	42.9	39.9	41.2	39.5	40.8	38.2
	Total	78.0	87.4	79.9	82.8	78.3	82.5	76.9
Couple with children
In employment
	Male	70.1	69.9	73.0	73.1	74.4	75.1	76.2
	Female	48.1	48.1	48.6	51.6	53.8	51.6	58.0
	Total	118.2	118.0	121.6	124.7	128.2	126.7	134.1
Unemployed
	Male	9.8	10.0	10.6	6.6	[4.8]	[4.2]	*
	Female	[2.9]	4.5	6.0	[3.4]	[3.2]	*	*
	Total	12.7	14.5	16.5	10.0	8.0	7.9	[4.3]
Not in the labour force
	Male	8.9	9.5	8.2	8.3	11.5	11.1	11.3
	Female	33.9	33.3	34.4	33.1	31.3	31.9	32.1
	Total	42.9	42.8	42.6	41.3	42.8	43.0	43.3
Total
	Male	88.9	89.4	91.8	88.0	90.7	90.4	90.2
	Female	84.9	86.0	89.0	88.0	88.3	87.2	91.6
	Total	173.8	175.3	180.8	176.0	179.0	177.6	181.8
Lone parent
In employment
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	10.4	8.0	8.9	9.6	10.5	12.1	8.8
	Total	11.7	9.0	9.7	11.2	11.9	12.6	10.1
Unemployed
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	*	[2.4]	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	[2.3]	[2.9]	[2.8]	*	*	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	9.6	10.0	8.5	9.8	9.3	8.9	10.4
	Total	11.1	11.1	9.3	11.0	10.4	9.7	11.1
Total
	Male	[3.2]	*	*	[3.2]	*	*	*
	Female	21.9	20.5	19.6	20.8	21.2	21.7	20.1
	Total	25.1	22.9	21.8	24.1	24.0	23.1	22.5
All family units
In employment
	Male	94.9	96.1	95.1	96.1	96.7	98.1	97.6
	Female	78.4	77.0	76.4	79.6	82.4	85.3	86.8
	Total	173.3	173.0	171.5	175.7	179.0	183.4	184.4
Unemployed
	Male	12.7	13.2	13.0	9.4	5.8	[5.3]	*
	Female	6.6	8.5	9.0	6.0	6.1	[5.1]	*
	Total	19.3	21.8	22.1	15.4	12.0	10.4	[6.8]
Not in the labour force
	Male	24.6	27.0	25.8	27.4	29.8	30.1	30.1
	Female	59.7	63.8	63.1	64.4	60.5	59.2	60.0
	Total	84.3	90.8	88.9	91.8	90.3	89.3	90.1
Total
	Male	132.1	136.3	134.0	132.8	132.3	133.5	131.3
	Female	144.8	149.3	148.5	150.1	149.0	149.7	149.9
	Total	276.9	285.6	282.5	282.9	281.3	283.2	281.3
Mid-West
Couple without children
In employment
	Male	17.3	18.0	16.0	14.5	15.5	15.3	14.9
	Female	15.3	15.3	14.2	12.5	13.9	15.3	12.6
	Total	32.6	33.3	30.2	27.0	29.4	30.6	27.5
Unemployed
	Male	[2.4]	[2.2]	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	3.8	3.5	[2.8]	*	*	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	13.2	14.8	17.2	16.7	15.2	14.7	13.3
	Female	15.3	17.2	17.2	19.3	16.5	16.2	17.3
	Total	28.4	32.0	34.4	36.0	31.7	31.0	30.6
Total
	Male	32.9	35.0	34.9	32.0	32.7	31.0	29.1
	Female	32.0	33.8	32.6	32.9	31.3	32.2	30.6
	Total	64.9	68.8	67.4	64.9	64.0	63.1	59.7
Couple with children
In employment
	Male	42.5	41.8	42.9	42.8	47.7	46.5	46.1
	Female	32.6	31.2	32.4	31.8	34.6	35.0	35.4
	Total	75.1	72.9	75.4	74.6	82.3	81.4	81.5
Unemployed
	Male	6.9	6.8	6.7	5.4	[3.7]	*	*
	Female	4.5	3.1	3.8	[3.4]	[3.0]	*	*
	Total	11.4	10.0	10.5	8.8	6.8	[4.7]	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	6.8	6.3	6.1	6.0	7.6	7.5	6.4
	Female	17.9	18.6	16.8	17.9	18.9	20.6	18.5
	Total	24.7	24.9	22.9	23.9	26.5	28.1	25.0
Total
	Male	56.1	54.9	55.8	54.3	59.0	56.6	54.8
	Female	55.0	52.9	53.0	53.1	56.5	57.7	54.5
	Total	111.1	107.8	108.8	107.4	115.5	114.3	109.3
Lone parent
In employment
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	5.8	5.2	5.7	5.3	5.8	5.8	7.1
	Total	7.0	6.0	6.8	7.0	7.0	7.1	8.0
Unemployed
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	[1.9]	[2.2]	*	*	*	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	5.9	7.2	5.9	6.7	[5.0]	6.4	6.3
	Total	7.0	8.1	7.0	7.9	5.7	7.2	7.4
Total
	Male	[2.6]	[2.1]	[2.4]	[3.2]	*	*	*
	Female	13.3	14.2	13.5	13.4	12.7	13.2	14.8
	Total	15.9	16.3	15.8	16.6	14.8	15.7	16.7
All family units
In employment
	Male	61.0	60.6	60.0	59.0	64.5	63.0	61.8
	Female	53.7	51.7	52.4	49.6	54.2	56.1	55.1
	Total	114.7	112.3	112.4	108.6	118.7	119.1	117.0
Unemployed
	Male	9.7	9.3	8.6	6.7	5.8	[4.0]	*
	Female	7.4	6.3	6.8	5.9	5.9	[3.7]	*
	Total	17.1	15.7	15.4	12.5	11.7	7.7	[5.8]
Not in the labour force
	Male	21.0	22.0	24.3	23.9	23.5	23.0	20.8
	Female	39.1	43.0	39.9	43.9	40.4	43.3	42.2
	Total	60.1	65.0	64.3	67.8	64.0	66.3	63.0
Total
	Male	91.6	92.0	93.0	89.5	93.8	90.0	85.9
	Female	100.3	101.0	99.1	99.4	100.5	103.1	99.8
	Total	191.9	193.0	192.1	188.9	194.4	193.1	185.7
South-East
Couple without children
In employment
	Male	19.5	19.9	20.8	20.1	21.0	21.4	22.4
	Female	16.9	17.2	19.5	18.1	18.2	17.2	20.5
	Total	36.5	37.1	40.3	38.2	39.2	38.6	43.0
Unemployed
	Male	[2.6]	*	[3.1]	*	*	*	*
	Female	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	4.1	[3.2]	4.9	[3.7]	[3.9]	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	20.8	20.5	21.5	20.9	20.1	19.8	23.2
	Female	24.0	23.4	25.6	24.3	24.4	22.6	28.7
	Total	44.7	43.9	47.1	45.2	44.5	42.3	51.9
Total
	Male	43.0	42.2	45.4	43.4	43.7	42.9	46.8
	Female	42.3	42.0	46.9	43.6	43.9	41.0	49.9
	Total	85.3	84.2	92.3	87.1	87.6	83.9	96.7
Couple with children
In employment
	Male	50.4	54.9	52.7	56.2	57.0	58.8	58.7
	Female	37.6	40.6	39.3	45.5	45.7	44.4	46.0
	Total	88.0	95.5	92.0	101.7	102.8	103.1	104.7
Unemployed
	Male	12.2	11.9	10.1	8.0	7.2	6.3	[4.2]
	Female	5.9	5.3	5.8	*	*	*	*
	Total	18.2	17.2	15.9	10.7	9.6	9.2	[5.3]
Not in the labour force
	Male	11.2	10.1	9.9	9.5	5.9	7.7	9.5
	Female	26.3	27.5	25.3	24.1	22.0	25.7	26.0
	Total	37.5	37.5	35.2	33.6	27.9	33.3	35.5
Total
	Male	73.8	76.9	72.6	73.7	70.1	72.7	72.4
	Female	69.8	73.4	70.4	72.2	70.2	72.9	73.1
	Total	143.7	150.3	143.0	145.9	140.3	145.7	145.5
Lone parent
In employment
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	9.5	8.5	9.4	8.4	9.0	11.7	9.8
	Total	10.9	9.9	10.2	9.4	11.0	13.0	11.3
Unemployed
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	[2.3]	[2.5]	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	[3.0]	[3.0]	[2.7]	*	*	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	[2.2]	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	11.0	11.6	9.3	11.0	10.1	8.8	8.9
	Total	13.2	13.0	10.5	12.3	11.4	10.4	10.6
Total
	Male	4.3	[3.2]	[2.5]	[2.5]	[3.7]	[3.5]	[3.2]
	Female	22.8	22.6	20.9	21.1	21.3	21.4	19.7
	Total	27.1	25.9	23.4	23.6	25.0	24.8	22.9
All family units
In employment
	Male	71.4	76.2	74.2	77.3	80.1	81.5	82.6
	Female	64.0	66.3	68.2	72.0	72.8	73.2	76.4
	Total	135.4	142.5	142.4	149.3	153.0	154.8	159.0
Unemployed
	Male	15.5	14.2	13.7	10.6	10.0	8.5	[5.4]
	Female	9.7	9.2	9.8	5.6	6.1	[5.0]	*
	Total	25.2	23.5	23.5	16.2	16.1	13.5	8.2
Not in the labour force
	Male	34.2	31.9	32.6	31.7	27.3	29.0	34.4
	Female	61.3	62.5	60.2	59.4	56.5	57.1	63.6
	Total	95.5	94.4	92.8	91.1	83.8	86.1	98.1
Total
	Male	121.1	122.3	120.5	119.6	117.4	119.1	122.4
	Female	135.0	138.0	138.2	137.0	135.4	135.3	142.8
	Total	256.1	260.4	258.7	256.6	252.9	254.4	265.2
South-West
Couple without children
In employment
	Male	26.4	24.9	25.4	24.6	30.3	26.2	26.3
	Female	24.0	21.8	22.4	21.5	24.8	21.6	24.3
	Total	50.4	46.6	47.7	46.1	55.1	47.9	50.6
Unemployed
	Male	3.4	3.5	[2.6]	[3.3]	*	*	*
	Female	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	4.7	4.6	4.1	5.3	[3.6]	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	24.2	26.4	26.9	26.5	23.8	24.6	29.1
	Female	27.3	29.2	30.2	28.6	29.7	30.4	33.2
	Total	51.5	55.6	57.2	55.1	53.5	55.0	62.2
Total
	Male	54.0	54.8	54.9	54.3	56.1	52.1	56.6
	Female	52.6	52.0	54.2	52.1	56.1	52.6	58.3
	Total	106.5	106.9	109.1	106.4	112.2	104.8	114.9
Couple with children
In employment
	Male	71.3	76.3	78.9	79.6	77.9	84.5	86.1
	Female	54.5	55.6	57.4	57.3	56.6	59.9	60.8
	Total	125.8	131.9	136.2	136.9	134.4	144.4	146.9
Unemployed
	Male	12.3	11.9	7.8	7.6	7.4	[5.1]	*
	Female	4.2	4.1	3.8	[3.9]	[3.8]	*	*
	Total	16.6	16.0	11.6	11.5	11.2	7.4	[4.1]
Not in the labour force
	Male	14.3	12.5	11.6	11.5	11.1	12.6	10.9
	Female	39.5	35.5	34.9	34.8	34.2	37.2	36.1
	Total	53.8	48.0	46.6	46.3	45.3	49.9	47.0
Total
	Male	97.9	100.7	98.2	98.6	96.4	102.2	99.7
	Female	98.3	95.1	96.1	96.0	94.5	99.4	98.3
	Total	196.2	195.9	194.3	194.6	190.9	201.7	198.0
Lone parent
In employment
	Male	*	*	[2.5]	*	*	*	*
	Female	11.6	13.9	12.3	11.3	11.9	11.8	13.2
	Total	13.4	15.6	14.8	13.3	13.2	13.7	14.5
Unemployed
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	*	[2.8]	[2.6]	*	*	*	*
	Total	[2.1]	3.2	[3.1]	*	[2.5]	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	13.1	12.8	12.2	13.4	12.8	12.9	11.7
	Total	14.7	14.3	13.7	15.5	14.1	14.8	12.5
Total
	Male	3.7	3.6	4.5	4.9	[2.9]	[3.9]	*
	Female	26.5	29.5	27.2	26.8	26.8	26.8	25.7
	Total	30.2	33.0	31.7	31.7	29.8	30.7	27.8
All family units
In employment
	Male	99.4	102.8	106.7	106.3	109.5	112.6	113.6
	Female	90.1	91.3	92.0	90.0	93.2	93.3	98.3
	Total	189.6	194.1	198.8	196.3	202.8	205.9	212.0
Unemployed
	Male	16.0	15.8	10.9	11.5	9.7	6.5	*
	Female	7.3	8.0	8.0	8.1	7.6	[5.0]	*
	Total	23.4	23.8	18.9	19.6	17.2	11.5	7.0
Not in the labour force
	Male	40.2	40.5	40.1	40.1	36.3	39.2	40.9
	Female	79.9	77.4	77.4	76.8	76.6	80.5	80.9
	Total	120.0	117.9	117.4	116.9	112.9	119.7	121.7
Total
	Male	155.6	159.1	157.7	157.8	155.5	158.3	158.5
	Female	177.3	176.6	177.4	175.0	177.5	178.8	182.3
	Total	332.9	335.8	335.1	332.8	332.9	337.1	340.7
State
Couple without children
In employment
	Male	194.7	190.2	191.5	194.4	197.1	204.7	201.1
	Female	174.8	167.4	167.0	167.6	167.3	177.9	174.4
	Total	369.4	357.6	358.5	362.0	364.4	382.7	375.5
Unemployed
	Male	23.3	22.3	20.4	18.2	15.2	11.5	7.9
	Female	13.1	12.6	11.2	10.2	8.9	9.3	[6.2]
	Total	36.3	34.9	31.6	28.4	24.2	20.8	14.1
Not in the labour force
	Male	157.2	167.5	171.2	167.1	168.5	169.8	176.1
	Female	179.5	191.9	201.0	196.3	196.9	198.0	205.8
	Total	336.7	359.5	372.2	363.4	365.4	367.8	381.9
Total
	Male	375.1	380.0	383.1	379.7	380.9	386.0	385.2
	Female	367.4	372.0	379.1	374.1	373.1	385.2	386.3
	Total	742.5	752.0	762.3	753.7	754.0	771.2	771.5
Couple with children
In employment
	Male	500.1	503.5	520.3	532.7	552.1	544.8	564.8
	Female	372.4	370.8	377.9	387.4	404.4	402.0	417.0
	Total	872.5	874.3	898.1	920.1	956.5	946.9	981.8
Unemployed
	Male	80.6	83.5	71.5	57.7	48.4	40.5	28.6
	Female	33.6	36.3	38.8	29.7	25.4	23.0	11.5
	Total	114.2	119.8	110.3	87.4	73.8	63.5	40.0
Not in the labour force
	Male	97.0	93.5	85.4	83.7	81.5	81.2	87.6
	Female	253.4	247.2	244.1	240.0	233.2	235.1	238.4
	Total	350.3	340.7	329.4	323.6	314.7	316.3	326.0
Total
	Male	677.8	680.4	677.2	674.1	682.1	666.6	681.0
	Female	659.3	654.2	660.7	657.1	663.0	660.2	666.9
	Total	1,337.1	1,334.7	1,337.9	1,331.1	1,345.1	1,326.7	1,347.8
Lone parent
In employment
	Male	11.5	10.4	11.8	12.9	12.1	14.3	14.3
	Female	85.9	87.0	87.4	82.4	85.9	92.3	99.2
	Total	97.4	97.4	99.2	95.3	98.0	106.6	113.5
Unemployed
	Male	[3.8]	[3.2]	[3.3]	[3.5]	*	*	*
	Female	17.3	18.2	20.4	14.7	14.3	10.8	10.7
	Total	21.0	21.4	23.7	18.2	16.8	12.9	12.0
Not in the labour force
	Male	11.8	12.8	11.7	13.1	12.0	11.5	10.6
	Female	95.7	97.5	84.2	91.1	92.1	89.8	90.9
	Total	107.5	110.3	95.9	104.2	104.2	101.3	101.5
Total
	Male	27.0	26.4	26.7	29.4	26.7	27.9	26.2
	Female	198.8	202.7	192.1	188.3	192.3	192.8	200.8
	Total	225.9	229.1	218.8	217.7	219.0	220.7	227.0
All family units
In employment
	Male	706.2	704.0	723.6	739.9	761.4	763.8	780.3
	Female	633.1	625.2	632.3	637.4	657.6	672.3	690.5
	Total	1,339.3	1,329.2	1,355.9	1,377.3	1,419.0	1,436.1	1,470.8
Unemployed
	Male	107.7	109.0	95.2	79.4	66.2	54.1	37.8
	Female	63.9	67.1	70.4	54.5	48.6	43.0	28.4
	Total	171.6	176.1	165.5	134.0	114.8	97.2	66.1
Not in the labour force
	Male	266.0	273.8	268.3	263.8	262.0	262.5	274.3
	Female	528.5	536.7	529.3	527.4	522.2	522.9	535.1
	Total	794.5	810.4	797.6	791.2	784.3	785.4	809.4
Total
	Male	1,079.9	1,086.8	1,087.0	1,083.2	1,089.7	1,080.4	1,092.3
	Female	1,225.5	1,228.9	1,231.9	1,219.4	1,228.4	1,238.2	1,254.0
	Total	2,305.4	2,315.7	2,319.0	2,302.5	2,318.1	2,318.6	2,346.4
Note: For the purpose of this table, an adult member of a family unit is either a lone parent or a member of a couple. Never married persons (regardless of age) living with a parent or parents are defined as children provided those persons are themselves not part of a separate family unit. In addition users should note that the grossing factors assigned to each spouse within a family unit may differ.

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Family unit type/ILO Economic Status/Sex		Q2 11	Q2 12	Q2 13	Q2 14	Q2 15	Q2 16	Q2 17
Couple without children
At least one partner aged under 45
In employment
	Male	97.9	91.8	89.0	88.4	84.9	88.7	86.9
	Female	94.4	86.5	84.1	80.4	78.4	83.7	78.9
	Total	192.4	178.3	173.1	168.9	163.3	172.4	165.8
Unemployed
	Male	11.8	11.0	8.3	6.2	[5.0]	[5.1]	*
	Female	8.3	6.4	[4.6]	[4.7]	[3.4]	[5.5]	*
	Total	20.1	17.4	12.9	10.8	8.3	10.7	[6.4]
Not in the labour force
	Male	5.2	5.2	5.4	[3.3]	[3.9]	[5.7]	[5.3]
	Female	7.7	9.2	8.6	7.5	8.0	8.1	9.1
	Total	12.9	14.4	14.0	10.9	12.0	13.8	14.5
Total
	Male	115.0	108.0	102.7	97.9	93.8	99.6	95.4
	Female	110.4	102.1	97.3	92.6	89.8	97.3	91.3
	Total	225.4	210.1	200.0	190.6	183.6	196.9	186.7
Both partners aged 45 to 64
In employment
	Male	87.0	87.3	89.5	92.8	95.6	99.2	97.5
	Female	74.7	76.2	76.8	80.7	81.6	85.2	86.7
	Total	161.7	163.5	166.3	173.4	177.2	184.4	184.2
Unemployed
	Male	11.3	11.2	11.9	12.0	10.3	6.2	[4.7]
	Female	4.7	6.1	6.4	5.4	5.4	[3.7]	*
	Total	16.1	17.4	18.3	17.4	15.7	9.9	7.5
Not in the labour force
	Male	59.4	61.7	58.1	58.9	54.9	56.0	52.8
	Female	73.7	75.7	75.5	76.4	71.0	69.3	66.4
	Total	133.1	137.5	133.6	135.2	126.0	125.2	119.2
Total
	Male	157.7	160.3	159.5	163.6	160.8	161.4	155.0
	Female	153.2	158.0	158.7	162.5	158.1	158.2	156.0
	Total	310.9	318.3	318.2	326.1	318.9	319.6	311.0
At least one partner aged 65 or more
In employment
	Male	9.7	11.1	13.0	13.2	16.6	16.9	16.7
	Female	5.7	4.8	6.2	6.5	7.3	9.0	8.7
	Total	15.4	15.9	19.1	19.7	23.9	25.9	25.5
Unemployed
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	92.5	100.6	107.7	104.9	109.6	108.1	118.0
	Female	98.1	106.9	116.8	112.4	117.8	120.7	130.3
	Total	190.7	207.5	224.6	217.3	227.5	228.7	248.2
Total
	Male	102.4	111.7	121.0	118.1	126.2	125.1	134.8
	Female	103.8	111.9	123.1	119.0	125.3	129.7	139.1
	Total	206.2	223.6	244.1	237.1	251.5	254.7	273.9
Total all couples without children
In employment
	Male	194.7	190.2	191.5	194.4	197.1	204.7	201.1
	Female	174.8	167.4	167.0	167.6	167.3	177.9	174.4
	Total	369.4	357.6	358.5	362.0	364.4	382.7	375.5
Unemployed
	Male	23.3	22.3	20.4	18.2	15.2	11.5	7.9
	Female	13.1	12.6	11.2	10.2	8.9	9.3	[6.2]
	Total	36.3	34.9	31.6	28.4	24.2	20.8	14.1
Not in the labour force
	Male	157.2	167.5	171.2	167.1	168.5	169.8	176.1
	Female	179.5	191.9	201.0	196.3	196.9	198.0	205.8
	Total	336.7	359.5	372.2	363.4	365.4	367.8	381.9
Total
	Male	375.1	380.0	383.1	379.7	380.9	386.0	385.2
	Female	367.4	372.0	379.1	374.1	373.1	385.2	386.3
	Total	742.5	752.0	762.3	753.7	754.0	771.2	771.5

Couple with children
At least 1 child aged under 5 and no child aged 15 or over
In employment
	Male	214.2	218.1	221.5	220.5	227.9	216.2	218.6
	Female	157.4	157.5	162.0	160.6	167.2	159.9	161.5
	Total	371.6	375.6	383.5	381.1	395.1	376.0	380.2
Unemployed
	Male	40.3	38.4	33.6	23.5	18.0	14.9	11.2
	Female	16.2	18.0	18.3	12.3	10.2	8.7	[3.8]
	Total	56.5	56.4	52.0	35.8	28.2	23.6	15.0
Not in the labour force
	Male	18.2	15.6	16.9	12.1	12.9	9.5	13.8
	Female	91.3	83.6	81.9	74.3	73.6	69.2	72.2
	Total	109.5	99.2	98.8	86.4	86.5	78.7	86.0
Total
	Male	272.8	272.1	272.0	256.0	258.7	240.6	243.6
	Female	264.9	259.1	262.1	247.2	251.1	237.8	237.5
	Total	537.6	531.2	534.2	503.3	509.8	478.4	481.2
At least 1 child aged under 5 and at least 1 child aged 15 or over
In employment
	Male	12.6	12.5	13.9	14.0	14.0	15.6	13.2
	Female	7.4	7.0	7.9	7.5	8.9	10.0	9.0
	Total	20.0	19.5	21.8	21.5	22.9	25.5	22.1
Unemployed
	Male	3.9	3.9	[4.1]	[4.2]	*	*	*
	Female	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	4.7	5.5	5.2	5.1	[3.6]	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	[3.0]	[2.5]	*	[3.2]	*	*	*
	Female	10.6	9.3	10.1	11.9	8.2	8.5	8.1
	Total	13.5	11.8	11.8	15.0	10.5	10.3	11.0
Total
	Male	19.5	18.9	19.6	21.3	19.1	19.8	17.7
	Female	18.7	17.9	19.1	20.3	17.9	19.1	17.9
	Total	38.2	36.9	38.8	41.6	37.0	39.0	35.6
All children aged 5 to 14
In employment
	Male	79.1	87.9	90.9	95.8	97.9	100.2	110.5
	Female	60.2	67.2	65.2	72.0	72.6	77.9	84.2
	Total	139.3	155.1	156.1	167.8	170.5	178.2	194.7
Unemployed
	Male	13.1	14.2	8.4	10.5	9.1	7.8	[4.4]
	Female	6.1	6.6	8.3	5.7	5.4	[5.0]	*
	Total	19.2	20.8	16.7	16.2	14.5	12.8	6.4
Not in the labour force
	Male	7.9	9.2	7.5	6.9	7.5	8.1	7.2
	Female	30.0	31.8	29.8	32.1	33.0	32.2	32.7
	Total	37.9	41.0	37.3	39.0	40.5	40.3	39.9
Total
	Male	100.1	111.2	106.7	113.2	114.4	116.1	122.1
	Female	96.4	105.7	103.3	109.8	111.0	115.1	118.9
	Total	196.5	216.9	210.1	223.0	225.4	231.2	241.0
No child aged under 5, at least 1 child aged 5 to 14 and at least 1 child aged 15 or over
In employment
	Male	66.8	65.8	68.8	72.5	75.6	71.7	81.7
	Female	48.6	45.4	46.4	50.5	52.7	50.4	55.9
	Total	115.4	111.3	115.2	123.0	128.3	122.1	137.6
Unemployed
	Male	9.3	11.2	10.9	6.3	8.8	6.4	[5.8]
	Female	[3.7]	4.7	4.8	[3.9]	[3.9]	[4.0]	*
	Total	12.9	15.9	15.7	10.2	12.7	10.4	8.2
Not in the labour force
	Male	8.2	9.5	7.8	7.8	6.5	8.4	8.7
	Female	30.2	33.0	33.0	30.3	31.4	31.9	34.5
	Total	38.4	42.5	40.8	38.1	37.9	40.3	43.1
Total
	Male	84.3	86.5	87.6	86.6	90.9	86.5	96.1
	Female	82.4	83.2	84.2	84.7	88.0	86.3	92.8
	Total	166.7	169.6	171.7	171.3	178.9	172.8	188.9
All children aged 15 or over
In employment
	Male	127.5	119.1	125.1	129.9	136.8	141.1	140.8
	Female	98.8	93.6	96.4	96.8	103.0	103.9	106.4
	Total	226.3	212.7	221.6	226.7	239.8	245.0	247.2
Unemployed
	Male	14.0	15.8	14.5	13.3	9.9	9.0	[5.5]
	Female	6.8	5.4	6.3	6.9	5.0	[4.6]	*
	Total	20.8	21.2	20.8	20.2	14.9	13.6	8.0
Not in the labour force
	Male	59.7	56.7	51.5	53.8	52.3	53.3	55.1
	Female	91.3	89.4	89.2	91.3	87.0	93.4	91.0
	Total	151.0	146.1	140.7	145.1	139.3	146.7	146.0
Total
	Male	201.2	191.7	191.2	196.9	199.0	203.4	201.4
	Female	196.9	188.3	191.9	195.0	195.0	201.9	199.8
	Total	398.1	380.0	383.1	391.9	394.0	405.3	401.2
Total couples with children
In employment
	Male	500.1	503.5	520.3	532.7	552.1	544.8	564.8
	Female	372.4	370.8	377.9	387.4	404.4	402.0	417.0
	Total	872.5	874.3	898.1	920.1	956.5	946.9	981.8
Unemployed
	Male	80.6	83.5	71.5	57.7	48.4	40.5	28.6
	Female	33.6	36.3	38.8	29.7	25.4	23.0	11.5
	Total	114.2	119.8	110.3	87.4	73.8	63.5	40.0
Not in the labour force
	Male	97.0	93.5	85.4	83.7	81.5	81.2	87.6
	Female	253.4	247.2	244.1	240.0	233.2	235.1	238.4
	Total	350.3	340.7	329.4	323.6	314.7	316.3	326.0
Total
	Male	677.8	680.4	677.2	674.1	682.1	666.6	681.0
	Female	659.3	654.2	660.7	657.1	663.0	660.2	666.9
	Total	1,337.1	1,334.7	1,337.9	1,331.1	1,345.1	1,326.7	1,347.8

Lone parent
At least 1 child aged under 5 and no child aged 15 or over
In employment
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	22.3	21.3	20.8	17.9	18.6	19.0	17.4
	Total	23.0	22.2	21.4	19.3	19.9	20.4	18.2
Unemployed
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	6.7	7.0	5.5	[4.1]	[3.9]	[3.4]	[3.0]
	Total	7.5	8.3	6.2	[4.5]	[4.3]	[3.6]	[3.0]
Not in the labour force
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	27.3	26.9	22.9	23.0	22.1	19.4	16.7
	Total	28.1	27.5	23.2	23.4	22.5	19.6	17.0
Total
	Male	*	[2.8]	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	56.3	55.2	49.1	44.9	44.6	41.8	37.1
	Total	58.6	58.0	50.8	47.2	46.7	43.7	38.2
At least 1 child aged under 5 and at least 1 child aged 15 or over
In employment
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Unemployed
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	[2.8]	[3.1]	[2.8]	[3.3]	[3.1]	*	[3.6]
	Total	[2.8]	[3.1]	[2.8]	[3.4]	[3.3]	*	[3.6]
Total
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	4.2	5.6	4.8	5.0	5.6	[4.9]	5.9
	Total	4.3	5.6	5.0	5.3	6.1	[5.1]	6.2
All children aged 5 to 14
In employment
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	23.0	21.7	24.5	20.8	20.2	24.5	25.4
	Total	25.0	23.3	26.5	22.6	22.1	26.6	27.7
Unemployed
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	5.4	5.5	7.0	5.2	[3.7]	*	*
	Total	6.3	6.0	7.8	6.2	4.7	[3.6]	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	12.9	15.0	11.0	12.6	13.8	11.7	12.5
	Total	13.8	16.1	12.3	13.5	14.8	12.7	13.4
Total
	Male	[3.7]	[3.3]	[4.0]	[3.8]	[3.7]	[3.9]	[3.6]
	Female	41.3	42.2	42.5	38.5	37.8	39.0	40.5
	Total	45.0	45.4	46.5	42.3	41.5	42.8	44.1
No child aged under 5, at least 1 child aged 5 to 14 and at least 1 child aged 15 or over
In employment
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	8.4	10.2	10.2	8.7	11.0	10.5	13.3
	Total	9.6	11.2	11.5	9.6	12.0	12.1	14.5
Unemployed
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	*	*	[2.9]	*	*	*	*
	Total	*	*	[3.2]	*	*	*	*
Not in the labour force
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	7.5	8.9	7.8	7.4	7.4	9.3	8.2
	Total	7.8	9.5	8.0	7.9	8.2	9.9	8.5
Total
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	17.6	20.9	21.0	17.5	20.3	20.9	23.8
	Total	19.2	22.8	22.7	19.4	22.2	23.1	25.2
All children aged 15 or over
In employment
	Male	7.5	6.8	7.8	8.7	7.8	9.0	9.8
	Female	30.9	31.7	30.5	33.8	34.1	36.4	40.8
	Total	38.4	38.5	38.3	42.5	41.8	45.5	50.5
Unemployed
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	[3.4]	3.5	[4.4]	[3.6]	[4.2]	[3.2]	*
	Total	5.3	4.6	5.9	5.1	5.2	[4.3]	[3.8]
Not in the labour force
	Male	9.8	10.5	9.9	11.1	9.7	9.7	9.1
	Female	45.2	43.7	39.7	44.9	45.7	46.6	49.9
	Total	55.1	54.2	49.6	56.0	55.4	56.3	59.0
Total
	Male	19.2	18.3	19.2	21.2	18.5	19.8	19.8
	Female	79.5	78.9	74.6	82.3	83.9	86.2	93.5
	Total	98.8	97.3	93.8	103.6	102.5	106.0	113.3
Total lone parents
In employment
	Male	11.5	10.4	11.8	12.9	12.1	14.3	14.3
	Female	85.9	87.0	87.4	82.4	85.9	92.3	99.2
	Total	97.4	97.4	99.2	95.3	98.0	106.6	113.5
Unemployed
	Male	[3.8]	[3.2]	[3.3]	[3.5]	*	*	*
	Female	17.3	18.2	20.4	14.7	14.3	10.8	10.7
	Total	21.0	21.4	23.7	18.2	16.8	12.9	12.0
Not in the labour force
	Male	11.8	12.8	11.7	13.1	12.0	11.5	10.6
	Female	95.7	97.5	84.2	91.1	92.1	89.8	90.9
	Total	107.5	110.3	95.9	104.2	104.2	101.3	101.5
Total
	Male	27.0	26.4	26.7	29.4	26.7	27.9	26.2
	Female	198.8	202.7	192.1	188.3	192.3	192.8	200.8
	Total	225.9	229.1	218.8	217.7	219.0	220.7	227.0

Total family units
In employment
	Male	706.2	704.0	723.6	739.9	761.4	763.8	780.3
	Female	633.1	625.2	632.3	637.4	657.6	672.3	690.5
	Total	1,339.3	1,329.2	1,355.9	1,377.3	1,419.0	1,436.1	1,470.8
Unemployed
	Male	107.7	109.0	95.2	79.4	66.2	54.1	37.8
	Female	63.9	67.1	70.4	54.5	48.6	43.0	28.4
	Total	171.6	176.1	165.5	134.0	114.8	97.2	66.1
Not in the labour force
	Male	266.0	273.8	268.3	263.8	262.0	262.5	274.3
	Female	528.5	536.7	529.3	527.4	522.2	522.9	535.1
	Total	794.5	810.4	797.6	791.2	784.3	785.4	809.4
Total
	Male	1,079.9	1,086.8	1,087.0	1,083.2	1,089.7	1,080.4	1,092.3
	Female	1,225.5	1,228.9	1,231.9	1,219.4	1,228.4	1,238.2	1,254.0
	Total	2,305.4	2,315.7	2,319.0	2,302.5	2,318.1	2,318.6	2,346.4
Note: For the purpose of this table, an adult member of a family unit is either a lone parent or a member of a couple. Never married persons (regardless of age) living with a parent or parents are defined as children provided those persons are themselves not part of a separate family unit. In addition users should note that the grossing factors assigned to each spouse within a family unit may differ.

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Table 9 Employment rates¹ of adult members of family units classified by composition of family unit and age of youngest child and employment rates of all other persons
%
Family unit and non-family unit type/Sex			Q2 11	Q2 12	Q2 13	Q2 14	Q2 15	Q2 16	Q2 17
Adult members of family units without children
Couple without children
		Male	73.5	72.4	73.8	75.4	77.2	78.7	80.2
		Female	65.1	63.8	63.9	64.4	65.9	67.8	68.1
		Total	69.2	67.9	68.7	69.7	71.4	73.0	73.9

Adult members of family units with children
Couple with children
		Youngest child aged 0-5
		Male	77.6	79.2	80.7	84.6	87.1	89.0	88.7
		Female	58.1	59.4	60.4	62.9	65.5	66.1	66.8
		Total	68.0	69.6	70.7	73.9	76.5	77.6	77.9
		Youngest child aged 6-11
		Male	79.7	78.2	83.2	84.3	84.6	85.6	88.8
		Female	58.8	57.9	58.8	62.0	61.0	63.9	67.9
		Total	69.4	68.3	71.3	73.3	73.0	74.8	78.5
		Youngest child aged 12-17
		Male	79.2	76.3	79.8	82.4	85.7	85.1	86.4
		Female	64.8	64.2	62.2	64.0	67.1	64.5	64.1
		Total	72.0	70.3	71.0	73.2	76.4	74.8	75.3
		Youngest child aged 18 or greater
		Male	69.6	68.9	73.4	74.6	76.6	78.0	80.1
		Female	53.6	51.9	52.3	52.8	56.0	55.6	58.9
		Total	61.4	60.1	62.3	63.2	65.9	66.3	69.0
		All children
		Male	76.8	76.8	79.9	82.5	84.5	85.6	86.8
		Female	58.5	58.5	58.9	61.0	63.0	63.3	65.1
		Total	67.7	67.7	69.4	71.8	73.8	74.4	76.0
Lone parent
		Youngest child aged 0-5
		Male	[32.4]	[34.2]	*	*	*	*	*
		Female	39.0	38.5	41.1	38.3	41.1	44.6	45.7
		Total	38.7	38.3	41.2	39.3	42.0	46.0	46.6
		Youngest child aged 6-11
		Male	[61.0]	[48.0]	[55.6]	[47.6]	[37.9]	[60.3]	*
		Female	51.0	47.1	53.4	51.4	50.8	56.9	58.8
		Total	51.6	47.1	53.5	51.1	49.7	57.2	59.8
		Youngest child aged 12-17
		Male	55.6	55.7	55.8	66.5	[75.6]	[70.4]	[65.0]
		Female	59.8	61.1	62.6	61.6	61.7	62.4	65.8
		Total	59.2	60.6	61.7	62.2	63.2	63.4	65.8
		Youngest child aged 18 or greater
		Male	58.3	53.2	61.1	54.5	63.0	63.3	69.7
		Female	53.4	56.2	53.6	58.4	59.0	59.4	59.7
		Total	54.3	55.7	55.0	57.6	59.7	60.1	61.5
		All children
		Male	54.6	50.0	57.0	56.7	59.9	66.2	69.8
		Female	48.9	48.8	51.3	51.0	52.0	55.2	57.3
		Total	49.5	48.9	51.9	51.7	52.8	56.4	58.5
Total of all adult members of family units with children (couples with children and lone parents)
		Youngest child aged 0-5
		Male	77.2	78.8	80.5	84.3	86.8	88.9	88.6
		Female	54.7	55.6	57.3	59.0	61.6	62.8	63.7
		Total	65.1	66.4	68.1	70.9	73.4	74.9	75.4
		Youngest child aged 6-11
		Male	79.3	77.6	82.6	83.5	83.4	84.9	88.5
		Female	56.8	55.2	57.5	59.7	58.7	62.4	65.8
		Total	66.7	65.2	68.6	70.4	69.9	72.5	76.0
		Youngest child aged 12-17
		Male	78.1	75.6	78.7	81.8	85.4	84.5	85.6
		Female	63.6	63.4	62.3	63.4	65.8	64.0	64.5
		Total	70.1	68.8	69.6	71.6	74.4	73.1	73.8
		Youngest child aged 18 or greater
		Male	68.8	67.8	72.4	72.8	75.7	76.9	79.2
		Female	53.6	52.9	52.6	54.2	56.8	56.6	59.1
		Total	60.2	59.4	61.1	62.2	64.9	65.2	67.6
		All children
		Male	76.2	76.0	79.2	81.7	83.8	85.0	86.4
		Female	56.4	56.4	57.3	59.0	60.7	61.6	63.5
		Total	65.3	65.3	67.2	69.3	71.2	72.1	73.7

Total of all adult members of all family units (couples without children, couples with children and lone parents)
		Male	75.5	75.1	77.8	80.1	82.2	83.3	84.8
		Female	58.5	58.1	58.9	60.3	61.9	63.1	64.5
		Total	66.3	65.9	67.5	69.4	71.2	72.3	73.8

Other persons
	Child members of family units
		Male	34.2	33.6	35.5	35.5	39.9	42.4	41.8
		Female	35.7	35.6	36.4	35.5	37.9	42.9	40.7
		Total	34.9	34.5	35.9	35.5	39.0	42.6	41.4
	Single person households
		Male	55.6	54.7	56.1	59.6	61.1	63.6	63.1
		Female	66.4	64.5	64.2	62.6	64.2	64.1	65.4
		Total	60.4	59.2	59.7	61.0	62.6	63.8	64.2
	All other persons not otherwise classified
		Male	63.5	62.5	62.1	63.5	64.3	63.7	68.7
		Female	71.4	68.7	69.2	64.9	60.8	63.2	68.3
		Total	66.8	65.2	65.2	64.1	62.7	63.5	68.5
	Total of all other persons
		Male	44.4	43.6	45.2	46.3	48.9	51.0	51.8
		Female	49.0	48.6	49.1	47.8	48.1	51.6	51.5
		Total	46.4	45.8	46.9	46.9	48.5	51.3	51.7

Total of all persons
	Male		62.8	62.4	64.6	66.3	68.7	69.9	71.1
	Female		55.6	55.2	55.9	56.4	57.6	59.5	60.4
	Total		59.2	58.8	60.2	61.3	63.1	64.7	65.7
¹ Employment rates include persons aged 15-64 only
Note: For the purpose of this table, an adult member of a family unit is either a lone parent or a member of a couple. Never married persons (regardless of age) living with a parent or parents are defined as children provided those persons are themselves not part of a separate family unit. In addition users should note that the grossing factors assigned to each spouse within a family unit may differ.

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Table 10 Employment rates¹ of adult members of family units classified by composition of family unit and number of children and employment rates of all other persons
%
Family unit and non-family unit type/Sex			Q2 11	Q2 12	Q2 13	Q2 14	Q2 15	Q2 16	Q2 17
Adult members of family units without children
Couple without children
		Male	73.5	72.4	73.8	75.4	77.2	78.7	80.2
		Female	65.1	63.8	63.9	64.4	65.9	67.8	68.1
		Total	69.2	67.9	68.7	69.7	71.4	73.0	73.9

Adult members of family units with children
Couple with children
		1 child
		Male	73.7	75.1	78.2	82.0	82.9	82.9	85.7
		Female	62.8	61.9	63.0	62.7	66.6	65.0	65.1
		Total	68.2	68.5	70.5	72.2	74.7	73.7	75.2
		2 children
		Male	79.5	78.6	82.3	84.1	86.8	87.5	88.7
		Female	60.9	62.9	62.2	64.9	65.1	66.5	68.6
		Total	70.2	70.9	72.3	74.6	76.0	77.0	78.7
		3 or more children
		Male	77.0	76.1	78.3	80.8	83.3	85.8	85.4
		Female	50.2	48.9	49.7	54.2	56.1	57.4	60.1
		Total	63.8	62.8	64.2	67.6	69.9	71.6	73.0
		All children
		Male	76.8	76.8	79.9	82.5	84.5	85.6	86.8
		Female	58.5	58.5	58.9	61.0	63.0	63.3	65.1
		Total	67.7	67.7	69.4	71.8	73.8	74.4	76.0
Lone parent
		1 child
		Male	47.0	47.0	52.9	55.2	58.8	65.3	64.3
		Female	52.2	53.1	54.6	55.1	56.5	62.0	62.7
		Total	51.6	52.4	54.4	55.2	56.8	62.4	62.9
		2 children
		Male	65.5	53.4	60.4	64.2	67.2	61.3	[75.8]
		Female	50.1	46.0	51.1	50.6	50.9	54.1	55.5
		Total	51.6	46.6	51.9	51.9	52.3	54.8	57.4
		3 or more children
		Male	[65.3]	[59.4]	*	*	[52.5]	*	*
		Female	37.0	41.3	41.1	38.2	40.9	37.5	45.3
		Total	39.0	42.5	43.4	39.2	42.0	41.2	47.5
		All children
		Male	54.6	50.0	57.0	56.7	59.9	66.2	69.8
		Female	48.9	48.8	51.3	51.0	52.0	55.2	57.3
		Total	49.5	48.9	51.9	51.7	52.8	56.4	58.5

Total of all adult members of family units with children (couples with children and lone parents)
		1 child
		Male	72.3	73.5	76.8	80.4	81.7	81.9	84.5
		Female	59.6	59.1	60.4	60.4	63.7	64.1	64.3
		Total	64.9	65.2	67.3	68.8	71.3	71.5	72.7
		2 children
		Male	79.1	78.2	81.9	83.8	86.4	86.9	88.4
		Female	59.0	60.0	60.3	62.7	62.7	64.2	66.4
		Total	68.3	68.5	70.3	72.6	73.6	74.6	76.6
		3 or more children
		Male	76.8	75.9	78.2	80.4	82.8	85.7	85.4
		Female	48.3	47.8	48.5	52.2	54.1	54.8	57.9
		Total	61.8	61.1	62.6	65.6	67.7	69.3	70.9
		All children
		Male	76.2	76.0	79.2	81.7	83.8	85.0	86.4
		Female	56.4	56.4	57.3	59.0	60.7	61.6	63.5
		Total	65.3	65.3	67.2	69.3	71.2	72.1	73.7

Total of all adult members of all family units (couples without children, couples with children and lone parents)
		Male	75.5	75.1	77.8	80.1	82.2	83.3	84.8
		Female	58.5	58.1	58.9	60.3	61.9	63.1	64.5
		Total	66.3	65.9	67.5	69.4	71.2	72.3	73.8

Other persons
Child members of family units
		Male	34.2	33.6	35.5	35.5	39.9	42.4	41.8
		Female	35.7	35.6	36.4	35.5	37.9	42.9	40.7
		Total	34.9	34.5	35.9	35.5	39.0	42.6	41.4
Single person households
		Male	55.6	54.7	56.1	59.6	61.1	63.6	63.1
		Female	66.4	64.5	64.2	62.6	64.2	64.1	65.4
		Total	60.4	59.2	59.7	61.0	62.6	63.8	64.2
All other persons not otherwise classified
		Male	63.5	62.5	62.1	63.5	64.3	63.7	68.7
		Female	71.4	68.7	69.2	64.9	60.8	63.2	68.3
		Total	66.8	65.2	65.2	64.1	62.7	63.5	68.5
Total of all other persons
		Male	44.4	43.6	45.2	46.3	48.9	51.0	51.8
		Female	49.0	48.6	49.1	47.8	48.1	51.6	51.5
		Total	46.4	45.8	46.9	46.9	48.5	51.3	51.7

Total of all persons
	Male		62.8	62.4	64.6	66.3	68.7	69.9	71.1
	Female		55.6	55.2	55.9	56.4	57.6	59.5	60.4
	Total		59.2	58.8	60.2	61.3	63.1	64.7	65.7
¹ Employment rates include persons aged 15-64 only
Note: For the purpose of this table, an adult member of a family unit is either a lone parent or a member of a couple. Never married persons (regardless of age) living with a parent or parents are defined as children provided those persons are themselves not part of a separate family unit. In addition users should note that the grossing factors assigned to each spouse within a family unit may differ.

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Table 11 Unemployment rates¹of adult members of family units classified by composition of family unit and age of youngest child and unemployment rates of all other persons
%
Family unit and non-family unit type/Sex			Q2 11	Q2 12	Q2 13	Q2 14	Q2 15	Q2 16	Q2 17
Adult members of family units without children
Couple without children
		Male	10.8	10.6	9.8	8.7	7.3	5.4	3.8
		Female	7.0	7.0	6.3	5.7	5.1	5.0	3.4
		Total	9.0	9.0	8.2	7.3	6.3	5.2	3.7

Adult members of family units with children
Couple with children
		Youngest child aged 0-5
		Male	16.3	15.5	13.8	10.5	7.9	7.0	5.3
		Female	9.3	10.6	10.3	7.3	5.9	5.2	2.6
		Total	13.5	13.5	12.4	9.2	7.1	6.2	4.2
		Youngest child aged 6-11
		Male	13.7	14.8	10.5	9.3	9.7	8.0	5.2
		Female	9.5	10.4	10.9	7.7	7.6	7.1	2.7
		Total	12.0	13.0	10.7	8.6	8.9	7.6	4.1
		Youngest child aged 12-17
		Male	11.0	13.1	11.1	9.1	7.1	6.1	4.5
		Female	5.8	5.5	7.6	6.5	5.7	5.3	3.1
		Total	8.8	9.8	9.7	8.0	6.5	5.7	3.9
		Youngest child aged 18 or greater
		Male	10.1	10.9	10.4	9.0	7.1	6.3	3.6
		Female	6.6	5.9	6.4	6.6	3.9	3.7	2.3
		Total	8.6	8.8	8.7	8.0	5.8	5.2	3.0
		All children
		Male	13.9	14.2	12.1	9.8	8.1	6.9	4.8
		Female	8.3	8.9	9.3	7.1	5.9	5.4	2.7
		Total	11.6	12.1	10.9	8.7	7.2	6.3	3.9
Lone parent
		Youngest child aged 0-5
		Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Female	22.5	24.0	21.6	19.1	17.8	15.2	13.4
		Total	24.0	26.4	22.9	19.5	18.1	14.9	12.8
		Youngest child aged 6-11
		Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Female	20.0	21.5	23.6	19.3	16.6	12.5	9.5
		Total	20.2	21.9	23.7	21.3	18.7	13.5	9.5
		Youngest child aged 12-17
		Male	27.0	[18.1]	[26.3]	[20.2]	[7.8]	[8.3]	*
		Female	13.1	12.4	15.5	12.8	13.6	8.3	12.0
		Total	15.3	13.0	17.0	13.8	12.9	8.3	11.7
		Youngest child aged 18 or greater
		Male	18.5	13.4	13.1	16.1	13.3	11.8	9.2
		Female	9.1	9.1	13.1	9.8	9.3	6.5	5.0
		Total	11.3	10.0	13.1	11.2	10.1	7.6	6.0
		All children
		Male	24.8	23.8	22.1	22.1	17.7	12.9	8.5
		Female	16.7	17.3	18.9	15.2	14.3	10.5	9.8
		Total	17.8	18.0	19.3	16.2	14.7	10.8	9.6
Total of all adult members of family units with children (couples with children and lone parents)
		Youngest child aged 0-5
		Male	16.5	15.8	14.0	10.6	8.0	7.0	5.2
		Female	11.2	12.6	11.7	8.6	7.3	6.4	3.9
		Total	14.2	14.4	13.0	9.8	7.7	6.7	4.6
		Youngest child aged 6-11
		Male	13.9	14.9	10.8	9.9	10.3	8.3	5.2
		Female	12.1	13.0	14.3	10.1	9.5	8.2	4.2
		Total	13.1	14.0	12.4	10.0	9.9	8.2	4.7
		Youngest child aged 12-17
		Male	11.7	13.3	11.7	9.5	7.2	6.2	4.6
		Female	7.5	7.2	9.7	8.0	7.6	6.0	5.6
		Total	9.6	10.3	10.7	8.8	7.4	6.1	5.1
		Youngest child aged 18 or greater
		Male	10.7	11.1	10.5	9.6	7.5	6.7	4.0
		Female	7.2	6.8	8.1	7.5	5.3	4.5	3.1
		Total	9.0	9.0	9.4	8.6	6.4	5.6	3.6
		All children
		Male	14.2	14.5	12.3	10.1	8.3	7.1	4.9
		Female	10.0	10.6	11.3	8.6	7.5	6.4	4.1
		Total	12.2	12.7	11.9	9.4	7.9	6.8	4.5

Total of all adult members of all family units (couples without children, couples with children and lone parents)
		Male	13.3	13.5	11.7	9.8	8.0	6.7	4.6
		Female	9.2	9.7	10.0	7.9	6.9	6.0	4.0
		Total	11.4	11.7	10.9	8.9	7.5	6.4	4.3

Other persons
Child members of family units
		Male	35.2	36.5	32.1	29.3	22.5	20.4	16.9
		Female	22.2	21.8	22.9	20.5	16.5	13.3	11.5
		Total	30.1	30.7	28.4	25.8	20.1	17.5	14.7
Single person households
		Male	21.3	21.4	20.9	15.8	14.7	13.5	11.5
		Female	8.2	8.8	9.1	10.9	8.0	6.6	6.9
		Total	15.5	15.6	15.7	13.6	11.6	10.6	9.5
All other persons not otherwise classified
		Male	16.9	18.8	15.9	15.0	11.5	10.5	8.5
		Female	6.6	8.0	7.2	7.5	6.7	6.7	5.4
		Total	12.6	14.1	12.1	11.8	9.4	8.9	7.2
Total of all other persons
		Male	27.3	28.4	25.3	22.1	17.9	16.3	13.3
		Female	14.4	14.5	15.0	14.2	11.7	9.9	8.7
		Total	22.0	22.6	20.9	18.8	15.3	13.6	11.4

Total of all persons
	Male		17.8	18.2	15.9	13.6	11.1	9.8	7.4
	Female		10.6	11.1	11.4	9.7	8.2	7.1	5.3
	Total		14.6	15.0	13.9	11.9	9.8	8.6	6.4
¹ Unemployment rates include persons aged 15-74 only
Note: For the purpose of this table, an adult member of a family unit is either a lone parent or a member of a couple. Never married persons (regardless of age) living with a parent or parents are defined as children provided those persons are themselves not part of a separate family unit. In addition users should note that the grossing factors assigned to each spouse within a family unit may differ.

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Table 12 Unemployment rates¹of adult members of family units classified by composition of family unit and number of children and unemployment rates of all other persons
%
Family unit and non-family unit type/Sex			Q2 11	Q2 12	Q2 13	Q2 14	Q2 15	Q2 16	Q2 17
Adult members of family units without children
Couple without children
		Male	10.8	10.6	9.8	8.7	7.3	5.4	3.8
		Female	7.0	7.0	6.3	5.7	5.1	5.0	3.4
		Total	9.0	9.0	8.2	7.3	6.3	5.2	3.7

Adult members of family units with children
Couple with children
		1 child
		Male	14.7	13.2	11.6	9.2	8.1	7.0	4.3
		Female	8.8	8.8	9.7	6.8	5.8	5.2	3.0
		Total	12.1	11.2	10.7	8.2	7.1	6.2	3.7
		2 children
		Male	12.8	13.8	11.6	8.8	6.4	6.6	4.6
		Female	7.7	8.6	8.3	7.3	5.7	5.2	2.7
		Total	10.7	11.6	10.3	8.2	6.1	6.0	3.8
		3 or more children
		Male	14.4	16.0	13.3	11.8	10.2	7.3	5.7
		Female	8.2	9.7	10.4	7.2	6.3	5.9	2.3
		Total	12.1	13.7	12.2	10.0	8.7	6.7	4.4
		All children
		Male	13.9	14.2	12.1	9.8	8.1	6.9	4.8
		Female	8.3	8.9	9.3	7.1	5.9	5.4	2.7
		Total	11.6	12.1	10.9	8.7	7.2	6.3	3.9
Lone parent household
		1 child
		Male	31.2	27.7	25.7	24.9	23.8	12.8	12.5
		Female	17.6	18.0	18.4	15.3	14.2	8.3	8.7
		Total	19.3	19.2	19.4	16.7	15.5	9.0	9.2
		2 children
		Male	17.9	[19.5]	[17.0]	[9.7]	[7.6]	[19.3]	[2.8]
		Female	15.2	16.9	18.1	15.3	14.9	15.1	11.6
		Total	15.6	17.1	18.0	14.7	14.1	15.6	10.5
		3 or more children
		Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Female	16.4	15.5	22.8	14.7	13.6	7.1	9.9
		Total	16.0	15.2	21.9	16.9	13.1	5.9	9.1
		All children
		Male	24.8	23.8	22.1	22.1	17.7	12.9	8.5
		Female	16.7	17.3	18.9	15.2	14.3	10.5	9.8
		Total	17.8	18.0	19.3	16.2	14.7	10.8	9.6
Total of all adult members of family units with children (couples with children and lone parents)
		1 child
		Male	15.5	13.8	12.2	10.0	8.8	7.3	4.7
		Female	11.4	11.6	12.3	9.3	8.1	6.1	4.8
		Total	13.4	12.7	12.3	9.7	8.5	6.7	4.8
		2 children
		Male	12.9	13.8	11.7	8.8	6.5	6.9	4.6
		Female	8.9	9.8	9.9	8.4	7.1	6.9	4.0
		Total	11.1	12.0	10.9	8.6	6.7	6.9	4.3
		3 or more children
		Male	14.4	15.9	13.4	12.0	10.2	7.2	5.7
		Female	9.2	10.5	12.0	8.0	7.1	6.0	3.2
		Total	12.3	13.8	12.8	10.3	8.9	6.7	4.6
		All children
		Male	14.2	14.5	12.3	10.1	8.3	7.1	4.9
		Female	10.0	10.6	11.3	8.6	7.5	6.4	4.1
		Total	12.2	12.7	11.9	9.4	7.9	6.8	4.5

Total of all adult members of all family units (couples without children, couples with children and lone parents)
		Male	13.3	13.5	11.7	9.8	8.0	6.7	4.6
		Female	9.2	9.7	10.0	7.9	6.9	6.0	4.0
		Total	11.4	11.7	10.9	8.9	7.5	6.4	4.3

Other persons
Child members of family units
		Male	35.2	36.5	32.1	29.3	22.5	20.4	16.9
		Female	22.2	21.8	22.9	20.5	16.5	13.3	11.5
		Total	30.1	30.7	28.4	25.8	20.1	17.5	14.7
Single person households
		Male	21.3	21.4	20.9	15.8	14.7	13.5	11.5
		Female	8.2	8.8	9.1	10.9	8.0	6.6	6.9
		Total	15.5	15.6	15.7	13.6	11.6	10.6	9.5
All other persons not otherwise classified
		Male	16.9	18.8	15.9	15.0	11.5	10.5	8.5
		Female	6.6	8.0	7.2	7.5	6.7	6.7	5.4
		Total	12.6	14.1	12.1	11.8	9.4	8.9	7.2
Total of all other persons
		Male	27.3	28.4	25.3	22.1	17.9	16.3	13.3
		Female	14.4	14.5	15.0	14.2	11.7	9.9	8.7
		Total	22.0	22.6	20.9	18.8	15.3	13.6	11.4

Total of all persons
	Male		17.8	18.2	15.9	13.6	11.1	9.8	7.4
	Female		10.6	11.1	11.4	9.7	8.2	7.1	5.3
	Total		14.6	15.0	13.9	11.9	9.8	8.6	6.4
¹ Unemployment rates include persons aged 15-74 only
Note: For the purpose of this table, an adult member of a family unit is either a lone parent or a member of a couple. Never married persons (regardless of age) living with a parent or parents are defined as children provided those persons are themselves not part of a separate family unit. In addition users should note that the grossing factors assigned to each spouse within a family unit may differ.

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%
Family unit and non-family unit type/Sex			Q2 11	Q2 12	Q2 13	Q2 14	Q2 15	Q2 16	Q2 17
Adult members of family units without children
Couple without children
		Male	58.1	55.9	55.3	56.0	55.8	56.0	54.3
		Female	51.1	48.4	47.0	47.5	47.2	48.6	46.7
		Total	54.7	52.2	51.2	51.8	51.5	52.3	50.5

Adult members of family units with children
Couple with children
		Youngest child aged 0-5
		Male	92.7	93.8	93.6	94.5	94.5	95.6	93.6
		Female	64.1	66.5	67.3	67.8	69.6	69.8	68.6
		Total	78.6	80.5	80.7	81.4	82.3	82.8	81.2
		Youngest child aged 6-11
		Male	92.3	91.5	92.9	92.8	93.4	92.9	93.7
		Female	64.9	64.6	66.1	67.1	66.0	68.8	69.9
		Total	78.8	78.4	79.7	80.2	80.0	80.9	81.9
		Youngest child aged 12-17
		Male	88.2	87.3	88.6	90.3	91.2	89.9	90.0
		Female	68.7	67.8	67.2	68.3	71.1	68.0	66.1
		Total	78.6	77.7	78.0	79.4	81.3	79.0	78.2
		Youngest child aged 18 or greater
		Male	64.6	64.9	67.9	66.6	67.9	68.1	66.9
		Female	48.9	47.3	48.6	47.9	50.1	48.3	49.8
		Total	56.8	56.2	58.2	57.3	59.0	58.2	58.4
		All children
		Male	85.7	86.3	87.4	87.6	88.0	87.8	87.1
		Female	61.6	62.2	63.1	63.5	64.8	64.4	64.2
		Total	73.8	74.5	75.4	75.7	76.6	76.2	75.8
Lone parent household
		Youngest child aged 0-5
		Male	[66.7]	[80.3]	*	*	*	*	*
		Female	50.3	50.7	52.4	47.3	49.9	52.6	52.8
		Total	50.9	52.0	53.4	48.9	51.2	54.1	53.6
		Youngest child aged 6-11
		Male	[78.1]	[65.3]	[73.0]	[76.7]	[63.0]	[77.9]	*
		Female	63.8	60.0	69.9	63.7	60.9	64.9	64.9
		Total	64.7	60.3	70.1	64.8	61.1	66.1	66.0
		Youngest child aged 12-17
		Male	74.1	68.3	74.2	78.6	[80.5]	[73.8]	[70.9]
		Female	68.7	69.8	74.1	70.4	71.4	68.0	74.8
		Total	69.5	69.7	74.1	71.4	72.4	68.8	74.4
		Youngest child aged 18 or greater
		Male	45.5	39.4	44.0	42.3	43.0	46.0	51.7
		Female	37.7	37.6	39.1	38.3	38.5	41.0	39.2
		Total	39.2	38.0	40.2	39.1	39.4	42.0	41.6
		All children
		Male	56.3	51.5	56.3	55.6	55.1	58.7	59.7
		Female	51.9	51.9	56.1	51.6	52.1	53.4	54.7
		Total	52.4	51.8	56.2	52.1	52.4	54.1	55.3
Total of all adult members of family units with children (couples with children and lone parents)
		Youngest child aged 0-5
		Male	92.5	93.7	93.6	94.4	94.3	95.6	93.5
		Female	61.7	63.6	64.9	64.6	66.5	67.1	66.3
		Total	75.9	77.6	78.3	78.5	79.5	80.3	79.0
		Youngest child aged 6-11
		Male	92.0	91.0	92.4	92.4	92.7	92.5	93.4
		Female	64.6	63.4	67.0	66.4	64.9	68.0	68.7
		Total	76.7	75.8	78.3	78.2	77.5	78.9	79.8
		Youngest child aged 12-17
		Male	87.6	86.5	87.9	89.8	90.8	89.2	89.3
		Female	68.7	68.3	68.8	68.8	71.2	68.0	68.3
		Total	77.2	76.4	77.4	78.2	80.0	77.4	77.6
		Youngest child aged 18 or greater
		Male	62.7	62.2	65.4	63.8	65.4	65.9	65.3
		Female	45.4	44.3	45.8	44.8	46.4	45.9	46.3
		Total	53.0	52.1	54.4	53.1	54.7	54.5	54.4
		All children
		Male	84.6	85.0	86.2	86.2	86.8	86.6	86.1
		Female	59.3	59.8	61.5	60.8	62.0	61.9	62.0
		Total	70.7	71.2	72.7	72.4	73.2	73.0	72.9

Total of all adult members of all family units (couples without children, couples with children and lone parents)
		Male	75.4	74.8	75.3	75.6	76.0	75.7	74.9
		Female	56.9	56.3	57.0	56.7	57.5	57.8	57.3
		Total	65.5	65.0	65.6	65.6	66.2	66.1	65.5

Other persons
Child members of family units
		Male	52.9	52.9	52.3	50.2	51.4	53.3	50.3
		Female	45.8	45.5	47.2	44.7	45.3	49.4	46.0
		Total	49.9	49.7	50.1	47.8	48.8	51.6	48.5
Single person households
		Male	52.9	51.4	53.4	52.0	52.2	52.5	51.0
		Female	35.1	35.8	35.5	35.1	34.6	34.2	34.5
		Total	43.2	42.9	43.8	42.7	42.6	42.7	42.3
All other persons not otherwise classified
		Male	71.6	71.3	68.7	69.3	66.9	65.9	69.9
		Female	62.0	60.9	60.4	58.3	53.8	56.0	59.2
		Total	67.2	66.4	64.8	64.2	60.6	61.3	65.1
Total of all other persons
		Male	56.9	56.4	56.0	54.9	54.8	55.6	54.6
		Female	45.6	45.5	45.9	44.4	43.4	45.2	44.7
		Total	51.6	51.3	51.2	49.9	49.4	50.8	50.0

Total of all persons
	Male		68.1	67.8	67.9	67.7	67.9	67.8	66.9
	Female		53.2	52.8	53.4	52.6	52.8	53.6	53.1
	Total		60.5	60.1	60.5	60.0	60.2	60.6	59.9
Note: For the purpose of this table, an adult member of a family unit is either a lone parent or a member of a couple. Never married persons (regardless of age) living with a parent or parents are defined as children provided those persons are themselves not part of a separate family unit. In addition users should note that the grossing factors assigned to each spouse within a family unit may differ.

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Family unit and non-family unit type/Sex			Q2 11	Q2 12	Q2 13	Q2 14	Q2 15	Q2 16	Q2 17
Adult members of family units without children
Couple without children
		Male	58.1	55.9	55.3	56.0	55.8	56.0	54.3
		Female	51.1	48.4	47.0	47.5	47.2	48.6	46.7
		Total	54.7	52.2	51.2	51.8	51.5	52.3	50.5

Adult members of family units with children
Couple with children
		1 child
		Male	78.9	78.7	80.5	81.4	81.4	79.7	79.7
		Female	63.4	62.6	64.8	61.9	65.2	62.0	60.3
		Total	71.3	70.8	72.7	71.7	73.4	70.9	70.0
		2 children
		Male	89.3	90.2	91.6	90.8	90.9	91.8	91.0
		Female	65.1	68.1	67.2	68.9	68.3	69.2	69.5
		Total	77.3	79.3	79.6	80.0	79.8	80.6	80.4
		3 or more children
		Male	89.4	89.8	89.9	90.6	92.2	92.3	90.3
		Female	54.6	54.0	55.2	58.1	59.7	60.9	61.4
		Total	72.3	72.3	72.8	74.6	76.2	76.7	76.1
		All children
		Male	85.7	86.3	87.4	87.6	88.0	87.8	87.1
		Female	61.6	62.2	63.1	63.5	64.8	64.4	64.2
		Total	73.8	74.5	75.4	75.7	76.6	76.2	75.8
Lone parent household
		1 child
		Male	48.9	48.4	51.2	53.4	52.8	54.3	54.4
		Female	52.0	52.9	55.5	51.9	51.6	53.7	53.5
		Total	51.6	52.3	54.9	52.1	51.8	53.8	53.6
		2 children
		Male	70.4	55.4	61.8	58.0	60.9	62.5	67.7
		Female	56.2	52.1	59.2	55.6	55.9	59.7	60.3
		Total	57.8	52.5	59.4	55.8	56.4	60.1	61.1
		3 or more children
		Male	[69.3]	[63.8]	[79.5]	[65.2]	[55.8]	*	*
		Female	43.7	48.2	52.8	43.4	46.8	39.7	49.4
		Total	45.8	49.3	55.0	45.5	47.8	43.0	51.1
		All children
		Male	56.3	51.5	56.3	55.6	55.1	58.7	59.7
		Female	51.9	51.9	56.1	51.6	52.1	53.4	54.7
		Total	52.4	51.8	56.2	52.1	52.4	54.1	55.3
Total of all adult members of family units with children (couples with children and lone parents)
		1 child
		Male	76.8	76.5	78.3	79.1	79.4	77.9	77.8
		Female	59.7	59.3	61.8	58.5	60.8	59.3	58.0
		Total	67.0	66.6	68.8	67.3	68.7	67.2	66.2
		2 children
		Male	88.8	89.4	91.0	90.0	90.2	91.0	90.5
		Female	63.5	65.2	65.8	66.8	66.1	67.4	67.9
		Total	75.2	76.5	77.5	77.7	77.3	78.2	78.4
		3 or more children
		Male	89.2	89.4	89.7	90.2	91.5	92.0	90.2
		Female	53.0	53.1	54.9	56.2	57.9	58.1	59.6
		Total	70.1	70.3	71.5	72.4	73.9	74.1	74.0
		All children
		Male	84.6	85.0	86.2	86.2	86.8	86.6	86.1
		Female	59.3	59.8	61.5	60.8	62.0	61.9	62.0
		Total	70.7	71.2	72.7	72.4	73.2	73.0	72.9

Total of all adult members of all family units (couples without children, couples with children and lone parents)
		Male	75.4	74.8	75.3	75.6	76.0	75.7	74.9
		Female	56.9	56.3	57.0	56.7	57.5	57.8	57.3
		Total	65.5	65.0	65.6	65.6	66.2	66.1	65.5

Other persons
Child members of family units
		Male	52.9	52.9	52.3	50.2	51.4	53.3	50.3
		Female	45.8	45.5	47.2	44.7	45.3	49.4	46.0
		Total	49.9	49.7	50.1	47.8	48.8	51.6	48.5
Single person households
		Male	52.9	51.4	53.4	52.0	52.2	52.5	51.0
		Female	35.1	35.8	35.5	35.1	34.6	34.2	34.5
		Total	43.2	42.9	43.8	42.7	42.6	42.7	42.3
All other persons not otherwise classified
		Male	71.6	71.3	68.7	69.3	66.9	65.9	69.9
		Female	62.0	60.9	60.4	58.3	53.8	56.0	59.2
		Total	67.2	66.4	64.8	64.2	60.6	61.3	65.1
Total of all other persons
		Male	56.9	56.4	56.0	54.9	54.8	55.6	54.6
		Female	45.6	45.5	45.9	44.4	43.4	45.2	44.7
		Total	51.6	51.3	51.2	49.9	49.4	50.8	50.0

Total of all persons
	Male		68.1	67.8	67.9	67.7	67.9	67.8	66.9
	Female		53.2	52.8	53.4	52.6	52.8	53.6	53.1
	Total		60.5	60.1	60.5	60.0	60.2	60.6	59.9
Note: For the purpose of this table, an adult member of a family unit is either a lone parent or a member of a couple. Never married persons (regardless of age) living with a parent or parents are defined as children provided those persons are themselves not part of a separate family unit. In addition users should note that the grossing factors assigned to each spouse within a family unit may differ.

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Family unit type/Duration of unemployment/Sex		Q2 11	Q2 12	Q2 13	Q2 14	Q2 15	Q2 16	Q2 17
Couple without children
Less than 1 year
	Male	9.6	8.3	7.0	5.9	5.1	[4.3]	*
	Female	7.0	6.0	5.4	5.1	[3.8]	[4.5]	*
	Total	16.6	14.4	12.4	11.0	8.9	8.8	6.7
1 year or over
	Male	13.2	13.8	13.4	12.1	10.1	6.9	[4.6]
	Female	6.0	6.4	5.7	4.9	5.1	[4.3]	*
	Total	19.2	20.3	19.1	17.0	15.2	11.2	7.1
Not stated
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Total
	Male	23.3	22.3	20.4	18.2	15.2	11.5	7.9
	Female	13.1	12.6	11.2	10.2	8.9	9.3	[6.2]
	Total	36.3	34.9	31.6	28.4	24.2	20.8	14.1
Couple with children
Less than 1 year
	Male	28.2	21.9	20.5	18.3	14.2	13.4	9.5
	Female	15.3	16.1	18.4	13.5	12.6	14.2	6.6
	Total	43.5	38.0	39.0	31.7	26.9	27.6	16.2
1 year or over
	Male	52.1	61.2	50.3	38.9	33.0	25.7	17.8
	Female	18.0	19.8	20.2	16.1	12.8	8.7	[4.6]
	Total	70.1	81.1	70.5	55.0	45.8	34.4	22.4
Not stated
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Total
	Male	80.6	83.5	71.5	57.7	48.4	40.5	28.6
	Female	33.6	36.3	38.8	29.7	25.4	23.0	11.5
	Total	114.2	119.8	110.3	87.4	73.8	63.5	40.0
Lone parent
Less than 1 year
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	8.1	8.3	9.3	6.3	6.6	[4.4]	[4.9]
	Total	8.9	9.6	9.8	7.1	7.2	[5.0]	5.4
1 year or over
	Male	[3.0]	*	[2.7]	*	*	*	*
	Female	8.9	9.7	11.1	8.2	7.6	6.1	5.5
	Total	11.9	11.7	13.9	10.7	9.6	7.5	6.4
Not stated
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Total
	Male	[3.8]	[3.2]	[3.3]	[3.5]	*	*	*
	Female	17.3	18.2	20.4	14.7	14.3	10.8	10.7
	Total	21.0	21.4	23.7	18.2	16.8	12.9	12.0
All family units
Less than 1 year
	Male	38.6	31.5	28.1	25.1	19.9	18.3	13.1
	Female	30.4	30.4	33.1	24.8	23.0	23.1	15.1
	Total	69.0	61.9	61.2	49.9	42.9	41.4	28.2
1 year or over
	Male	68.3	77.0	66.4	53.4	45.0	34.0	23.3
	Female	32.9	36.0	37.0	29.2	25.5	19.1	12.6
	Total	101.2	113.0	103.5	82.6	70.5	53.1	35.9
Not stated
	Male	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Female	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Total
	Male	107.7	109.0	95.2	79.4	66.2	54.1	37.8
	Female	63.9	67.1	70.4	54.5	48.6	43.0	28.4
	Total	171.6	176.1	165.5	134.0	114.8	97.2	66.1
Note: For the purpose of this table, an adult member of a family unit is either a lone parent or a member of a couple. Never married persons (regardless of age) living with a parent or parents are defined as children provided those persons are themselves not part of a separate family unit. In addition users should note that the grossing factors assigned to each spouse within a family unit may differ.

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Background Notes

Purpose of Survey

The Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) began in September 1997, replacing the annual April Labour Force Survey (LFS). The purpose of the survey is the production of quarterly labour force estimates and occasional reports on special social topics. The survey meets the requirements of Council Regulation (EC) No. 577/98, adopted in March 1998, which requires the introduction of quarterly labour force surveys in EU member states.

Reference Period

Information is collected continuously throughout the year from households surveyed each week in each quarter. Up to and including the fourth quarter of 2008 the QNHS operated on a seasonal quarter basis since its establishment in Q4 1997. As of the first quarter of 2009 the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) is now undertaken on a calendar quarter basis.

The reference quarters for survey results are:

Q1 - January to March, Q2 - April to June, Q3 - July to September and Q4 - October to December.

Data Collection

Information is collected on tablet computers, using computer-assisted personal interview (CAPI) software.

Sample Design

A two-stage sample design is used. A new sample was introduced in Q4 2012 following the 2011 Census of Population and an additional new sample also based on the 2011 Census of Population will be introduced incrementally from Q3 2016. The sample frame of households is clustered into blocks (small areas) with each block containing a minimum of 60 occupied households on the night of the 2011 Census of Population. In the case of the sample introduced in 2012 the sample frame is stratified using administrative county and population density while the sample introduced in 2016 is stratified using administrative county and the Pobal HP (Haase and Pratschke) Deprivation Index. In the first stage 1,300 blocks are selected using Probability Proportional to Size (PPS) sampling and in the second stage 20 households are selected using Simple Random Sampling (SRS). This ensures that each household in the sample frame has an equal probability of selection and results in a total quarterly sample of 26,000 households. The actual achieved sample varies over time depending on the level of response.

The number of valid responding households in Q2 2017 was 15,287.

Households are asked to take part in the survey for five consecutive quarters and are then replaced by other households in the same block. Thus, one fifth of the households in the survey are replaced each quarter and the QNHS sample involves an overlap of 80% between consecutive quarters and 20% between the same quarter in consecutive years. As the new sample based on the 2011 Census of Population was introduced incrementally across each quarter from Q4 2012 to Q4 2013, the new sample is fully effective from Q4 2013.

The survey results are weighted to agree with population estimates broken down by age, sex and region and are also calibrated to nationality control totals. The population estimates for April of each year are published in a separate release.

Estimated number of households

The average grossing factor of all members of a household is used to calculate the number of households. As a result, the number of households should be treated as indicative only.

Family unit coding

For the purpose of the data in this release it can be noted that an adult member of a family unit is either a lone parent or a member of a couple. Never married persons (regardless of age) living with a parent or parents are defined as children provided those persons are themselves not part of a separate family unit. In addition users should note that the adjustment factors assigned to each spouse within a family unit may differ.

A family unit itself consists of either:

1. a married couple, or

2. a married couple and one or more of their never-married children, or

3. one parent and one or more of his or her never-married children, or

4. a couple living together (with never-married children, if any) who are not married to each other, where it is clear that the couple form a “de facto” family unit.

Households may contain more than one family unit or may contain a family together with other persons not in a family unit as defined above.

Jobless Households

The Quarterly National Household Survey is the official source of data for the jobless household indicator.

The indicator "People aged 18 - 59 years living in jobless households" is calculated as the share of persons aged 18 - 59 who are living in households where no one is in employment. Students aged 18 - 24 who live in households composed solely of students (persons who have indicated that their Principal Economic Status is Student) of the same age class are not included. The indicator "People aged 0 - 17 years living in jobless households" is calculated as the share of persons aged 0 - 17 who are living in households where no one is in employment.

Comparison to Census of Population results

The data in this release is not directly comparable to the results from the Census of Population. Both sources are collected in different ways and this can lead to differences in estimates between the two sources. In addition, as noted above, the QNHS is a voluntary sample survey, while the Census of Population is a mandatory survey of the entire population. In addition, the Census of Population is a self-completed paper questionnaire whereas a face to face interviewer asks the QNHS questions using computer-assisted personal interview (CAPI) and that may lead to differences in understanding and interpreting the questions.

Statistical significance

All estimates based on sample surveys are subject to error, some of which is measurable. Where an estimate is statistically significantly different from another estimate it means that we can be 95% confident that differences between those two estimates are not due to sampling error.

Usual residence and de facto population concepts

Up to and including Q1 2006 the annual population estimates were calculated using the de facto definition of population (i.e. all persons present in the State). From Q2 2006 onwards a new concept of usual residence has been used, i.e. all persons usually resident and present in the state plus absent persons who are usually resident in Ireland but are temporarily away from home and outside the State.

ILO Labour Force Classification

The primary classification used for the QNHS results is the ILO (International Labour Office) labour force classification. Labour Force Survey data on this basis have been published since 1988. The ILO classification distinguishes the following main subgroups of the population aged 15 or over:

In Employment: Persons who worked in the week before the survey for one hour or more for payment or profit, including work on the family farm or business and all persons who had a job but were not at work because of illness, holidays etc. in the week.

Unemployed: Persons aged 15 to 74 who, in the week before the survey, were without work and available for work within the next two weeks, and had taken specific steps, in the preceding four weeks, to find work.

Inactive Population (not in labour force): All other persons.

The labour force comprises persons employed plus unemployed.

Participation, Employment and Unemployment Rates

The rates given in this release are based on the ILO classification. The Participation Rate is the number of persons in the labour force expressed as a percentage of the total population aged 15 or over. The Employment Rate is the number of employed persons aged 15 to 64 expressed as a percentage of the total population aged 15 to 64. The Unemployment Rate is the number of unemployed persons aged 15 to 74 expressed as a percentage of the total labour force aged 15-74.

Duration of Unemployment

The duration of unemployment is the length of time since a person last had a job or began looking for work, whichever is more recent. The long-term unemployment rate is the number of persons unemployed for one year or more expressed as a percentage of the total labour force aged 15 to 74 years.

NUTS2 and NUTS3 regions

The regional classifications in this release are based on the NUTS (Nomenclature of Territorial Units) classification used by Eurostat. The NUTS3 regions correspond to the eight Regional Authorities established under the Local Government Act, 1991 (Regional Authorities) (Establishment) Order, 1993, which came into operation on 1 January 1994. The NUTS2 regions, which were proposed by Government and agreed by Eurostat in 1999, are groupings of the NUTS3 regions. The composition of the regions is set out below.

Border, Midland and Western NUTS2 Region		Southern and Eastern NUTS2 Region
Border	Cavan	Dublin	Dublin City
	Donegal		Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown
	Leitrim		Fingal
	Louth		South Dublin
	Monaghan
	Sligo	Mid-East	Kildare
			Meath
Midland	Laois		Wicklow
	Longford	Mid-West	Clare
	Offaly		Limerick City
	Westmeath		Limerick County
			North Tipperary
West	Galway City
	Galway County	South-East	Carlow
	Mayo		Kilkenny
	Roscommon		South Tipperary
			Waterford City
			Waterford County
			Wexford

		South-West	Cork City
			Cork County
			Kerry

Reliability of Estimates Presented

Estimates for number of persons where there are less than 30 persons in a cell are too small to be considered reliable. These estimates are presented with an asterisk (*) in the relevant tables.

Where there are 30-49 persons in a cell, estimates are considered to have a wider margin of error and should be treated with caution. These cells are presented with parentheses [ ].

In the case of rates, these limits apply to the denominator used in generating the rate. In the case of annual changes, both the current year and the preceding year are taken into account when deciding whether the estimate should be suppressed or flagged as having a wider margin of error.

Calculation of Rates and Estimates of Change

Rates and estimates of change presented in this release are calculated from whole unrounded numbers. Due to rounding, these may differ from the rates and estimates of change calculated from the rounded volumes presented in the tables.

Interpretation of volume and rate changes

The overall change in the number of people employed, unemployed, in the labour force and not in the labour force is a function both of changes in the population as well as changes in the proportion of people with that status. Therefore, in interpreting changes in the volume of persons who are employed, unemployed etc, both changes in population and changes in the relevant rates should be considered.

In recent years there has been a natural decline in the number of people in younger age groups arising from the falling number of births through the 1980’s until 1994 when a low of 48,255 births was recorded (compared with 74,278 in 2009). For example there were 326,030 people born in Ireland between 1982 and 1986 and, all other things being equal, these people would have been in the 20-24 age group in 2006. However between 1986 and 1990 there were nearly 50,000 fewer births which would create a natural decrease in the 20-24 age group of close to 50,000 between 2006 and 2010.

In addition to natural changes in population, net migration has been a significant feature of population change in Ireland in recent years and net migration has also been most heavily concentrated in younger age groups. Evidence shows that migration is also most heavily concentrated in the 20-24 and 25-34 age groups. As a result of both natural decrease and net outward migration, the population of persons in the younger age groups has fallen and this should be borne in mind when considering the changes in the number of people in these age groups who are employed, unemployed and in the labour force.

Main QNHS release and data series

The quarterly QNHS release can be accessed through the CSO website and is available, along with other additional series, at the link below:

http://www.cso.ie/shorturl.aspx/435

Labour market data can also be accessed from Statbank, the CSO’s main data dissemination service which can be accessed through the CSO website at the link below:

http://www.cso.ie/shorturl.aspx/78

Implications of Census 2016 Final Results

The QNHS results are weighted using population estimates which are generated on anongoing basis. Historically every 5 years the Census of Population results have been used to revise these population estimates, and QNHS results are revised as a consequence.

The population concept of usual residence is used for the QNHS, i.e. all persons usually resident and present in the State plus absent persons who are usually resident in Ireland but are temporarily away from home and outside the State.

The final Census count was published on April 6 2017. The total for this usually resident population concept which was enumerated on Census Night, April 24 2016, was 4,739,597 persons, while the existing estimate for the usually resident population for April 2016 is 4,673,700 as detailed in the 2016 Population and Migration Estimates release. There is a difference, therefore, of just over 65,900 or 1.4% between the two figures.

The CSO is in the process of revising the population estimates for 2012 to 2016 based on this final Census count. Estimates of persons employed and unemployed will then be revised in line with the higher population totals when available. However, in terms of trends, the impacts would be expected to be relatively low as the population difference is introduced incrementally over the period. In the case of rates (unemployment rate, employment rate, participation rate) these are likely to have a lower level of difference as the population increase would be reflected both in the denominator and the numerator. In the case of the unemployment rate for example, changes in both the numbers unemployed and the numbers in the labour force could leave unemployment rates relatively unchanged.

Once the revision work has been completed the CSO will issue an explanatory note on the subject along with the revised labour market estimates.

Changes to CSO Labour Market Statistics

Effective from Q3 2017, the QNHS is being replaced by a new Labour Force Survey (LFS).This is part of a major Household Survey Development (HSD) project that the CSO has been engaged in over the past number of years with the aim of expanding the range of social statistics to meet new needs for information on households and persons. This new survey includes the introduction of Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI), a redesigned questionnaire and enhancements to the survey methodology.

The introduction of such large scale changes will inevitably lead to discontinuity in some series and this is in line with international experience of introducing such large scale changes. However the CSO will seek to limit such discontinuities by back-casting of existing QNHS data using the results from the new survey.

The first results from this new survey, which will be for Q3 2017, will be published before the end of January 2018. These will incorporate the revision of population estimates arising from the 2016 Census of Population along with a back-cast series of the existing data for the QNHS.

Participating Households

The Central Statistics Office wishes to thank the participating households for their co-operation in agreeing to take part in the survey and for facilitating the collection of the relevant data.

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