This publication 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.
As of the week ending 25 September 2022 there have been 54,771 Personal Public Service Numbers (PPSNs) issued to individuals from Ukraine under the Temporary Protection Directive.
Of the arrivals from Ukraine, 89% showed activity in administrative data after 31 July 2022, based on data currently available to the Central Statistics Office (CSO).
Women aged 20 and over account for 46% of arrivals to date, while individuals aged 0-19 (both male and female) make up for 35% of arrivals.
The highest percentage of those arriving (35% or 19,121 individuals) were categorised as 'One parent with children' under the broad relationship classification headings used. Note that spouses/partners may have stayed in Ukraine.
As of 25 September 2022, 67% of the arrivals that attended employment support events arranged by Intreo Public Employment Services, English language proficiency was noted as being a challenge in securing employment.
Of the 19,589 arrivals who attended an Intreo event, 14,209 had recorded previous occupations, with Professionals being the largest group at 32%. Of the 13,878 persons where the highest level of education was recorded, 67% had achieved an NFQ level equivalent to 7 or higher.
In response to the situation, the CSO provides statistics related to the Ukrainian crisis to an inter-Departmental group called the Senior Officials Group. The statistics include a weekly Department of Social Protection (DSP) extract which the CSO receives every Monday. Some of the aggregate data provided to the Group this week features in the release issued today (03 October 2022). This release is also a follow-up to Arrivals from Ukraine in Ireland Series 5.
As well as the strict legal protections set out in the Statistics Act, 1993, and other existing regulations, the CSO is committed to protecting individual privacy and all identifiable information from each of the data sources used in our analysis, such as name, date of birth and addresses, are removed before use and only anonymised statistical aggregates are produced. For further information on the data sources, linking procedures and definitions of this report, see Background Notes.
The Temporary Protection Directive (2001/55 EC) was activated on the 04 March 2022 by EU Council Decision EU 2022/382, to provide immediate protection in EU countries for people displaced by the Russian invasion of Ukraine that began on the 24 February 2022. This publication examines and analyses the population cohort that availed of the temporary protection and received a PPSN. Therefore, the figures quoted should be interpreted as estimates of the numbers arriving from Ukraine. For example, the number of persons who have arrived from Ukraine may not have received a PPSN yet, while the figures may also include those who received a PPSN earlier in the crisis but who are no longer resident in the State.
To avail of the Temporary Protection Directive and to reside in Ireland, an Arrival from Ukraine must meet the following criteria:
a) A Ukrainian national who was residing in Ukraine before 24 February 2022;
b) A national of a third country (other than Ukraine) or stateless person who would have benefited from international protection (for example: Refugee Status) or an equivalent national protection status in Ukraine and were residing there before 24 February 2022;
c) A family member* of persons covered by a) and b) above, where the family already existed in Ukraine at the time of events leading to the mass influx prior to 24 February 2022
*Family members include a spouse or partner, unmarried minor children of either of them, and their other close dependent family relatives who have been living with them as part of the family unit.
Temporary protection also applies to people who were residing in Ukraine before 24 February 2022 with a permanent Ukrainian residence permit, who cannot safely return to their country of origin.
Figure 1 shows the total cumulative number of arrivals (based on PPSN allocations) from Ukraine to Ireland for the week ending 25 September 2022 was 54,771. This is a 2% increase compared to the cumulative count one week earlier and a 8% increase compared to four weeks earlier.
Based on the 54,771 arrivals, 95% or 51,788 individuals could be mapped to an LEA. The LEA mapping of arrivals is based on either the local post office address through which refugees were seeking assistance from the Department of Social Protection or, if available, the arrivals' residential address where an Accommodation Recognition Payment (ARP) is payable to the host of the residence. Using the post office address as a tentative proxy for place of residence where ARP data is not present, Map 1 presents the count for the week ending 25 September 2022 by LEA for the 51,788 mapped records. LEAs with lighter colours correspond with lower counts while the darker areas correspond with LEA with higher counts. Users can hover their mouse over the map to see the name of the LEA and the associated count. Users can also zoom in on the map to see some of the LEAs that are smaller in geographical area.
Table 2 shows the age and sex breakdown of arrivals as of 25 September 2022. We see that women aged 20 and over account for 46% of this cohort to date, while individuals aged 0-19 (both male and female) account for 35%.
Again using the same approach as described for Map 1 above, Map 2 shows the arrival rate (%) by LEA (per 100 of the preliminary Census 2022 de facto population) as of 25 September 2022. The rate ranges from 0.07% to 7.87% in LEAs across the country.
While PPSN allocations give the total number of arrivals from Ukraine under the Temporary Protection Directive, it is not necessarily indicative of how many persons are currently residing in Ireland as some arrivals may have subsequently left.
Experimental Tables 3 & 4 below give an indication if arrivals from Ukraine have stayed or left Ireland by examining activity in administrative data. Attending an Intreo event, picking up a welfare payment from a post office, getting paid for employment, having a Revenue Payroll Notification or changing ones address with DSP are taken as signs of activity. For children, the activity status is dependent on that of their parent(s)/guardian(s).
Subject to revision, 21,884 persons had such an activity in the available data during August 2022, while an additional 27,004 persons had activity in the selected administrative data sources after 31 August 2022. Combing these two groups together, 89% of persons had recent administrative data activity, i.e., activity after the 31 July 2022, also see Background notes.
The rate of administrative activity after 31 July 2022 could be underestimated as it is based on the administrative data currently available to the CSO. The availability of more real-time data to the CSO will help provide more up to date statistics in this series going forward.
Table 4 shows that the number of persons with last activity in July 2022 was 1,617, compared with 1,408 and 1,218 in June and May respectively.
For further information on the data sources, linking procedures and definitions of this report, see Background Notes.
As of 25 September 2022, 5,959 arrivals from Ukraine are living in private accommodations, where 2,770 hosts are in receipt of Accommodation Recognition Payment for accommodating people from Ukraine. Additional information on hosts and arrivals, such as age bands and sex, can be found in Table 5.
Table 6 focuses on active welfare claims broken down by 'Working Age Income Supports', 'Child Benefits' and 'Other'. Please note that data is preliminary and subject to change as additional data becomes available, particularly for the most recent week reported.
Table 7 shows that for the 7,472 persons with earnings from employment, the mean weekly earnings in August 2022 were €402 (based on CSO methodology - see 'Background Notes'). The most common sector of employment was Wholesale, Transport and Accommodation at 56%.
(NOTE: for official statistics on earnings data please see the Earnings, Hours and Employment Costs Survey (EHECS) and Earnings Analysis using Administrative Data Sources 2020 (EAADS).)
Table 8 shows changes in employments, where a person can have more than one employment.
Since 11 April 2022, Intreo Public Employment Services (of the DSP) have been arranging employment support events for arrivals from Ukraine and, as of 25 September 2022, those events have been attended by 19,589 arrivals.
The previous occupation of those arrivals from Ukraine are shown in Table 9. ‘Professionals’ were the largest broad group among the classification listed of the 14,209 persons having recorded work history, with 32% (or 4,510 persons).
Of the persons that attended Intreo events, 67% were noted with English language proficiency being a challenge in securing employment, see Table 10.
Of the 13,878 persons where the highest level of education was recorded, 67% had achieved an NFQ level equivalent to 7 or higher, see Table 11.
Looking at relationships between arrivals from Ukraine, based on PPSN allocations data, Table 12 shows that 35% (or 19,121 individuals) were in the relationship category 'One parent with children', the highest percentage among the broad relationship categories used. Relationships to persons who did not arrive under the Temporary Protection Directive - for example persons already resident in Ireland, or persons such as spouses remaining in Ukraine, are excluded.
Table 13 shows that as of the latest available data, 6,890 arrivals from Ukraine have enrolled in schools in the academic year 2021/22, with 71% of these in primary schools and the remaining 29% in secondary schools. Dublin has the highest number of children enrolled in schools at 1,205 while Monaghan had the lowest at 23.
Primary and secondary enrolments for the academic year 2021/2022 have now ceased but additional statistics on enrolments in the last academic year can be found in 'Arrivals from Ukraine in Ireland - Series 3'.
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Statistician's Comment
Commenting on the release, Karola Graupner, Statistician, said: “This Arrivals from Ukraine in Ireland release is the sixth in a series of releases by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) providing insights into Ireland’s response to the Ukrainian crisis. This release includes an analysis of Ukrainian arrivals who are availing of support and services from the Department of Social Protection, as well as providing insights into primary and secondary school enrolments overseen by the Department of Education. Also included is an experimental measure of arrivals from Ukraine that were still administratively active after 31 July 2022, incorporating PAYE Modernisation (PMOD) and Department of Social Protection data. Furthermore, data on barriers to work, previous and current employment and education level is included in the release."
Further commenting on the release, Karola Graupner, Statistician, said: "Based on the local post office address as per the process through which arrivals were seeking assistance from the Department of Social Protection or, if available, the arrivals' residential address where an Accommodation Recognition Payment is payable to the host of the residence, we show two maps in this release based on mapping 51,788 individuals, or 95% of arrivals, to a location within Ireland. The first map is a count of arrivals by Local Electoral Area (LEA), and the second is the rate of arrivals by LEA (per 100 of the preliminary Census 2022 de facto population). Both North Inner City in Dublin and Killarney in Co. Kerry had the highest number of associated arrivals from Ukraine at 1,558.
Our analysis also shows that the rate per 100 of the population ranges across all LEAs in the country from 0.07% to 7.87%. The LEA with the highest rate is Ennistimon in Co. Clare."