Date Last Updated: 08-05-2025
SILC Module on Child Deprivation
Collection of information on the income and living conditions of different household types in Ireland, in order to derive indicators on poverty, deprivation and social exclusion. The purpose of the child-specific deprivation modules is to collect information on child-specific deprivation in households with at least one household member aged less than 16 at the end of the income reference period.
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Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 October 2019 Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1721 of 17 November 2020 Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/256 of 16 December 2019 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 of the European Parliament
Three Years
All private households with at least one household member aged less than 16
Register of all private households occupied on the night of Census 2022 for Waves 1. Register of all private households occupied on the night of Census 2016 for Waves 2-6.
2021, 2024
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Total 2024 achieved sample size of 4,885 households (of which 1,293 had at least one child aged less than 16 at the end of the income reference period).
Child-specific deprivation rates.
European Commission, Government Departments, other non-governmental organisations, researchers.
Central Statistics Office
Social & Demographic Statistics
Gerry Reilly
Statistician