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This release is categorised as a CSO Frontier Series Output. Particular care must be taken when interpreting the statistics in this release as it may use new methods which are under development and/or data sources which may be incomplete, for example new administrative data sources. For further information on the data sources, linking procedures and limitations of this report, see the Background Notes section.
The Revenue data source ITForm11 contains the annual income tax returns of the self-employed. Due to the nature of self-assessment, data for a calendar year is only complete three years after the reference year. This limits the analysis of self-employed PRSA contributors in this release to a maximum year of 2022.
In 2022 the NACE sector with the largest number of self-employed PRSA contributors was Professional, Scientific and Technical Activities with 7,769 contributors. This sector also had the largest number of new PRSA contributors at 699.
In 2022, 63.2% of all self-employed contributors had standard PRSAs and 36.8% had non-standard PRSAs.
The NACE sector with the largest proportion of non-standard PRSA contributors was Finance, Insurance and Real Estate Activities at 53.9 %. The sector with the largest proportion of standard PRSA contributors was Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing at 74.2%.
Overall, 57.2% of self-employed new contributors had non-standard PRSAs.
The NACE sector with the largest total assets value was Professional, Scientific and Technical Activities sector with €891M of which €241M (27%) was in standard PRSAs, and €651M (73%) was in non-standard PRSAs.
The sector with the largest total assets value amongst new contributors was Financial, Insurance and Real Estate with €79M. Most of these assets were in non-standard PRSAs at €76M (97%) compared to €2M (3%) in standard PRSAs.
in 2022 64.4% of existing self-employed PRSA contributors did not make any contributions.
The largest proportion to have made at least one contribution were working in Education with a standard PRSA at 46.1%.
Those lowest proportion to have made at least one contribution were working in Construction with a non-standard PRSA, at 23.1%.
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