SONC Part 1: Sociodemographics

This section provides background information about Ireland’s child population and their families. The information includes data on: the child population, child mortality, family structure, parental education level, Traveller children, foreign national children, children with a disability, and children as carers.

Data are drawn from the CSO (Vital Statistics; Population and Migration Estimates; the Census of the Population) and Eurostat.

Accessing Data:In line with the government’s Open Data Initiative, much of the data is now available in an open, machine-readable format. The majority of the data is housed in the Central Statistics Office’s (CSO) PxStat system. In recent publications, click on the heading of each table and figure to access the data source.