Census 2016 Results

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!

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.

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.

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

Yeah some interesting stuff there alright

A visual from http://www.cso.ie/en/census/census2016reports/census2016preliminaryreport/

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

Your Face wrote: »

54,000 speak French? - well oh-la-la.

Probably to Junior Cert standards!

DO you still need to be an irish speaker to join the guards?

Leitrim eh ... Nearly 30% vacant properties? Have people just upped and gone into Sligo or to Dublin? Nobody wants to be there is the vibe im getting.

__Alex__ wrote: »

I predicted that the number of Catholics in the country would drop below 80% and it has! :eek: They are classing it as a sharp drop from the 2011 census. It could be below 70% in the next ten years.

here's hoping.... time that virus was eradicated

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I was actually expecting those to tick no religion to be much higher but that's what I get for spending to much time on Boards/online.
When I speak to teachers about kids and Communion/Confrontation. Their doesn't seem to be a lot more opting out of these ceremonies even tough theirs no issues with them doing it and it wouldn't effect their place in the school if they did.

Problem is its been proven time and again to be a horribly bias and weighted question. The first issue is it asks what is your religion instead of what is your belief system. Secondly the no religion option has massive negative connotations still in Ireland and if you want to choose something else you have to write agnosticism or atheism in instead of having them as a choice which comes back to the issue of asking about religion instead of belief system.

Also there needs to be a followup question to ask if you are actively practicing whatever you choose, the truthful answers to that question for catholics would raise some eyebrows.

__Alex__ wrote: »

Interesting to see the No Religion stats on younger age groups.

It would be interesting to see how the Catholic vs No Religion is spread across the ages. I'd say a lot of parents who identify as Catholic ticked the box for their kids even though many of them may not share their parents faith. Taking children out of the equation how many people can say they are Catholic.