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Survey Information

Survey Name:

Live Register Age by Duration Analysis

Business Area:

Labour Market, Labour Market and Vital Statistics.

Survey Purpose:

To provide a half-yearly analysis of those on the Live Register in terms of age of registrant and duration of registration.

Legislative Basis:

Not applicable

Periodicity:

Half-yearly

Target Population:

All persons making claims for Jobseekers Benefit and Jobseekers Allowance or for various other statutory entitlements (ie Credits) at local offices.

Sampling Frame:

Not applicable

Survey Size:

The number of persons (roughly bewteen 130,000 and 160,000 on recent counts) making claims for various social welfare entitlements.

Principal Variables Collected:

Sex, age, duration of registration, Jobseekers Benefit, Jobseekers Allowance, Other Registrants.

Principal External Users:

Government, Business, Economists, Policy makers, Eurostat, National media - journalists, National Accounts etc.

Contact Points

Business Area Specialists:

Brendan Curtin
Martina O'Callaghan
Mary Bracken/Mairead Regan

The business specialists above can be contacted by e-mail using their firstname.lastname@cso.ie

Methodology

› Background Notes and Methodology (Word 29KB)

• Quality Reports
• › Standard Report on Methods and Quality for Live Register Age by Duration (PDF 73KB-9pgs)

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