Integration as Making Place

Figures & data

Table 1. Key integration outcomes highlighted in annual monitoring report on integration, 2016, 2018, 2020.

Integration outcome	2016	2018	2020
1. Employment
Employment rate	✔	✔	✔
Unemployment rate	✔	✔	✔
Activity rate	✔	✔	✔
2. Education
Share of 25-34 year olds with tertiary education	✔	✔	✔
Share of early leavers from education (20-24)	✔	✔	✔
Mean English reading and mathematics scores for 15 year olds	✔	✔	✔
3. Social Inclusion
Median net income	✔	✔	✔
At risk of poverty rate	✔	✔	✔
Consistent poverty rate	✔	✔	✔
Population share with self-perceived good or very good health	✔	✔	✔
Proportion of property owners	✔	✔	✔
4. Active Citizenship
Annual citizenship acquisition rate (non-EEA adults)	✔	✔	✔
Ratio of non-EEA nationals who have acquired citizenship to all non-EEA immigrants	✔	✔	✔
Share of non-EEA immigrants with long-term residence permits	✔	✔	X
Share of immigrants among elected local representatives	✔	✔	✔

Sources: Barrett et al., 2017; McGinnity et al., 2018, 2020a.

Table 2. Existing large-scale data sets in Ireland¹.

Data set	Coverage	How immigrant status is/could be identified	Scale for identification of results	Topics covered
Census 2016	Resident population of Ireland	Nationality Place of birth Lived outside Ireland for a year Ethnic/cultural identity	Range of scales from Small Areas to NUTS 3 regions and provinces	Employment Housing Health Civic Engagement
Labor Force Survey (LFS) (previously Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS))	32,500 households	Nationality Place of birth Lived outside Ireland for a year	Aggregated to NUTS 2 and NUTS 3 regions	Employment Housing
Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC)	9,800 households	Nationality Dual citizenship Place of birth	Urban/rural Aggregated to NUTS 3 regions	Employment Housing Health
European Social Survey (ESS)	2,390 approved interviews (response rate 60.7%)	Citizenship Place of birth Parent(s)’ country of birth Minority ethnic identity group	Aggregated to NUTS 3 regions	Employment Health Civic Engagement
Healthy Ireland Survey	Wave 1: 13,720 households (response rate 61.2%) Wave 2: 13,720 households (response rate 59.9%)	Ethnic/cultural identity Country of birth	Small Areas aggregated on the basis of levels of deprivation	Employment Health Civic Engagement

1Further details are available at www.cso.ie (Census, LFS (QNHS), SILC); https://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/about/country/ireland/ess_ireland.html (ESS in Ireland); and https://www.gov.ie/en/collection/231c02-healthyireland-survey-wave/ (Healthy Ireland Survey) [Accessed 6 February 2020]

Barrett, A., McGinnity, F., & Quinn, E. (Eds.). (2017). Monitoring report on integration 2016. ESRI/Department of Justice and Equality.

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