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Level of education

The level of education among Travellers remained well below that of general population as clearly illustrated in Figure 2.1. Just 13.3 per cent of Traveller females were educated to upper secondary or above compared with 69.1 per cent of the general population.

Nearly 6 in 10 Traveller men (57.2%) were educated to at most Primary level in sharp contrast to the general population (13.6%).

167 Irish Travellers held a third level qualification in 2016, albeit up from 89 in 2011.

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Irish Traveller Male Irish Traveller Female General Population Male General Population Female Primary (incl. no formal education) 57.2468256426138 54.4303797468354 13.6220469797531 11.6556094967971 Lower secondary 22.6231031279034 22.0282263931325 16.2383969006926 13.1861726099757 Upper secondary 6.30226076184577 8.06052669867598 17.8696961456728 19.3909846937269 Technical/vocational 1.82719108082998 2.28430088753092 8.14165768632941 9.43760584773847 Advanced and higher certificate 1.03747290182719 1.46951840535428 12.2796628093181 9.45269256103057 Bachelor degree or higher 0.960049550944565 1.52771715408119 25.4663564673535 30.7861397402004 Not stated 10.0030969340353 10.1993307143896 6.38218301088048 6.09079505053086

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Economic status

There were 10,653 Travellers in the labour force in 2016 and of these 8,541 were unemployed, giving an unemployment rate of 80.2 per cent. 2,112 persons were at work in 2016.

The labour force participation rate among Irish Travellers was 57 per cent compared with 61.4 per cent for the general population.

Among females 972 were at work while 2,938 were looking after the home, representing 30.4 per cent of Traveller women aged 15 or over.

Almost 1 in 8 (11.3%) Travellers indicated they were unable to work due to a disability, nearly three times the equivalent rate for the general population (4.3%).

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Male Female Persons at work 12.6371799135351 10.0694084740495 Unemployed looking for first regular job 5.05487196541403 3.01460685797162 Unemployed having lost or given up previous job 50.0831393415364 33.9376359680928 Student or pupil 10.2427668772863 9.8518595255361 Looking after home/family 2.67154417470347 30.4361338444007 Retired 3.74681299190777 2.70382264580959 Unable to work due to permanent sickness or disability 13.6126815208957 9.21993162747332 Other economic status 1.95100321472121 0.766601056666321

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Table 2.1 Main Occupations of Irish Travellers, 2016 Persons Male Female Caring personal service occupations 235 22 213 Elementary administration and service occupations 228 103 125 Elementary trades and related occupations 144 139 5 Sales occupations 129 78 51 Skilled construction and building trades 122 122 0 Health and social care associate professionals 117 45 72 Process, plant and machine operatives 113 90 23 Administrative occupations 86 34 52 Skilled agricultural and related trades 81 80 1 Transport and mobile machine drivers and operatives 74 73 1 Skilled metal, electrical and electronic trades 63 62 1 Leisure, travel and related personal service occupations 62 27 35 Other stated occupations 280 185 95 Total 1,734 1,060 674

It's a Fact 80.2% - The unemployment rate among Irish Travellers in 2016

Disability

Irish Travellers continued to have higher rates of disability than the general population with almost 1 in 5 Travellers (19.2%) categorised as having a disability in 2016, up from 17.5 per cent in 2011.

A total of 5,963 Travellers had a disability of some sort in 2016, with 18,717 disabilities recorded.

The most common type of disability was difficulty with pain, breathing or any other chronic illness’ with 2,658 persons, followed by a ‘difficulty with basic physical activities’ (2,363).

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Number of Disabilities Blindness or a serious vision impairment 528 Deafness or a serious hearing impairment 656 A condition that substantially limits one or more basic physical activities 2363 An intellectual disability 1228 Difficulty in Learning, remembering or concentrating 2311 Psycholological or emotional condition 1723 Other Disability, including chronic illness 2658 Difficulty in dressing, bathing or getting around inside the home 1466 Difficulty in going outside the home alone 1871 Difficulty in working or attending school/college 1906 Difficulty in participating in other activities 2007

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percent

Disability No Disability/Not stated Irish Traveller 19.2435537483461 80.7564462516539 General Population 13.5058637739625 86.4941362260375

Accommodation type

The majority of Irish Travellers were living in private dwellings with a small number, 639, enumerated in communal establishments.

Figure 2.5 presents Irish Travellers households by type of accommodation. Increases can be seen in all categories while the number of caravans or other mobile or temporary structures increased by 10.3 per cent between 2011 and 2016 after falling substantially between 2006 and 2011.

The census publication Profile 1 - Housing in Ireland looked at households where the number of persons exceeded the number of rooms as a measure of overcrowding. Figure 2.6 shows households by the number of persons per room (excluding not stated responses) for both Irish Travellers and the total population. Nearly two in five Irish Traveller households (39.1%) had more persons than rooms compared with less than six per cent of all households.

The number of Irish Travellers recorded as homeless in 2016 was 517, see Profile 5 - Homeless Persons in Ireland.

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2006 2011 2016 Detached House 1133 1837 2123 Semi-Detached House 1322 2448 2597 Terraced House 1329 1714 1919 Flat/apartment/bedsit 342 580 678 Caravan or other mobile temp structure 1355 920 1015

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More than one Exactly one Less than one Irish Travellers 2191 949 2437 Total Population 95013 135149 1373450



Nature of occupancy

Irish Traveller households had a lower home ownership rate than the general population with 1 in 5 (20.0%) households owning their home compared to over two-thirds (67.6%) for the general population. The number of Irish Traveller households who owned their home outright increased by 22.8 per cent to 1,133 in 2016.

Of the 6,016 Irish Traveller households who were renting their home, the majority (65.5%) were renting from a local authority, an increase from 3,317 to 3,938 households. There were 1,835 Irish Traveller households renting from a private landlord in 2016, a decrease from 2,257 in 2011.

Table 2.2 Irish traveller households by nature of occupancy, 2011-2016 Nature of Occupancy 2011 2016 Change % change Own with mortgage or loan 586 613 27 4.6 Own outright 923 1,133 210 22.8 Rented from Private landlord 2,257 1,835 -422 -18.7 Rented from Local Authority 3,317 3,938 621 18.7 Rented from Voluntary housing body 206 243 37 18.0 Living rent free 176 221 45 25.6 Not stated 300 734 434 144.7 Total number of Households containing Irish Travellers 7,765 8,717 952 12.3

Internet Access

The level of internet access for Irish Traveller households is lower than that of the general population as can be seen in Figure 2.7 below.

The percentage of Irish Traveller households with no internet fell to 59.9 per cent in 2016 from 71.7 per cent in 2011.

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