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Census 2016 Results

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  • 06-04-2017 2:10pm
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    An Ciarraioch
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    Some interesting stats - 10% of population stated they have "no religion" (475,000) and the number of Irish speakers has fallen for the first time since 1946. Net immigration fell by 28,000, but some variations, with a 78% spike in Spanish nationals (12,100), Brazilians up 56% (13,600) and Italians increasing by 53% (11,700). In terms of languages, Polish remains the most spoken foreign tongue with 135,000 speakers, but French surprisingly second on 54,000, followed by Romanian (36,000), Lithuanian (35,000) and Spanish (32,000).


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    Jack the Stripper
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    And the weather stats op?


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    Boom_Bap
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    68% of stats are made up.

    It would also be deadly OP if you gave an opinion on the stats posted rather then dumping them all as the thread opener.


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    Jack the Stripper
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    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    68% of stats are made up.

    32% would disagree with you.


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    Your Face
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    What's Sextons points average?


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    bodice ripper
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    Jack the Stripper wrote:
    And the weather stats op?

    Still ****e


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    marcbrophy
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    Personally, I think of number of No Religon is about 3 of 4 times too low.
    It's easily closer to 40%

    Source: I said, didn't I!


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    Arcade_Tryer
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    marcbrophy wrote: »
    Personally, I think of number of No Religon is about 3 of 4 times too low.
    It's easily closer to 40%

    Source: I said, didn't I!
    Yeah, 1 in 10 people have No Religion. And close to 9 in 10 people are liars.

    Same applies for statistics on speaking the Irish language. Way overestimated.


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    valoren
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    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    68% of stats are made up.

    It would also be deadly OP if you gave an opinion on the stats posted rather then dumping them all as the thread opener.

    Fourfty percent of people know that.


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    Boom_Bap
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    valoren wrote: »
    Fourfty percent of people know that.

    5 in 8 of those people are not real.


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    Mint Sauce
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    One thing I don't get about the Census is, if you are away on Census night, then none of your results count.

    One of the aims of the Census apparently, is to plan for the future, as an example they ask how you get to work, do you have the internet, etc. I guess this is too see what kind of infrastructure planning is needed.

    But last Census night I was out of the country, and was marked so. So my form pretty much want back, with no input from me. Surely if enough people were marked so, would that not affect overall results.


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    uck51js9zml2yt
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    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    68% of stats are made up.

    ner.


    Except in law enforcement where it's closer to 100%


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    King George VI
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    An Ciarraioch wrote: »
    Some interesting stats - 10% of population stated they have "no religion" (475,000) and the number of Irish speakers has fallen for the first time since 1946. Net immigration fell by 28,000, but some variations, with a 78% spike in Spanish nationals (12,100), Brazilians up 56% (13,600) and Italians increasing by 53% (11,700). In terms of languages, Polish remains the most spoken foreign tongue with 135,000 speakers, but French surprisingly second on 54,000, followed by Romanian (36,000), Lithuanian (35,000) and Spanish (32,000). - forrdinorz all over the gaff lads

    Hmmm yes interesting


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    topper75
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    No possessions - also up to 10%


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    biko
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    Yeah some interesting stuff there alright

    A visual from http://www.cso.ie/en/census/census2016reports/census2016preliminaryreport/
    Prelim_results_infographic_Final_medium-833x487.png


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    SEPT 23 1989
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    So in reality Polish is our second language


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    A Little Pony
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    They are swimming to get out of Donegal!


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    A Little Pony
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    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    So in reality Polish is our second language

    I call for a Polish language act.


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    Parchment
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    A Little Pony wrote: »
    I call for a Polish language act.

    I call for a Polish bakery on every corner....mmmm.


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    Arcade_Tryer
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    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    So in reality Polish is our second language
    It has been for the last decade.

    Polish now has a stronger argument for being an official language of Ireland than Irish.


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    SEPT 23 1989
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    Arcade_Tryer wrote: »
    It has been for the last decade.

    Polish now has a stronger argument for being an official language of Ireland than Irish.

    Well they deserve it

    they really have brought a lot to this country since they arrived


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    Arcade_Tryer
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    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    Well they deserve it

    they really have brought a lot to this country since they arrived

    They absolutely do.

    In reality however, having one official language is optimum in Ireland, hence why Irish should lose its status immediately.


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    A Little Pony
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    Arcade_Tryer wrote: »
    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    Well they deserve it

    they really have brought a lot to this country since they arrived

    They absolutely do.

    In reality however, having one official language is optimum in Ireland, hence why Irish should lose its status immediately.
    Fully agree. The Polish people deserve recognition. This is the way to do it.


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    Reati
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    Arcade_Tryer wrote: »
    They absolutely do.

    In reality however, having one official language is optimum in Ireland, hence why Irish should lose its status immediately.

    But if we do that how would I look down my nose at all you non Irish speakers...


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    Billy86
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    Jack the Stripper wrote: »
    32% would disagree with you.
    Yeah yeah, fact is you can use statistics to prove anything you want, 85% of all people know that.


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    seanboylan87
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    They absolutely do, we should also change our flag to red and white and increase the amount of social welfare we give to Slavic babies born and bred in Slavic states


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    Arcade_Tryer
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    A Little Pony wrote: »
    Fully agree. The Polish people deserve recognition. This is the way to do it.
    Indeed. And I don't even like using the word "deserve". But they have contributed a lot to this country. And most importantly, the numbers support the proposed status of Polish as an official language.


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    Arcade_Tryer
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    Reati wrote: »
    But if we do that how would I look down my nose at all you non Irish speakers...
    I'm sure you'll still find a way!
    seanboylan87 wrote: »
    They absolutely do, we should also change our flag to red and white and increase the amount of social welfare we give to Slavic babies born and bred in Slavic states
    If changing the flag, ideally it would be replaced with the EU flag. But that would be a harder case to make.


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    OWinter
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    Hilarious to hear George Hook try to spin the stats to suit his racist, xenophobic Catholic agenda. Great to see the numbers refute so many arguments the dinosaurs have been promoting the last few years


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    An Ciarraioch
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    seanboylan87 wrote: »
    They absolutely do, we should also change our flag to red and white and increase the amount of social welfare we give to Slavic babies born and bred in Slavic states

    I take it you haven't been to your local Lidl lately - vast majority of Poles are gainfully employed.


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    seanboylan87
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    I have but can't decipher whether the workers there speak Polish or Lithuanian - thankfully this will be sorted when Polish becomes an official language. Speaking of generalisations and the Polish working in Lidl - have you been down the dole office lately? Plenty of 'em there too.


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