S.I. No. 207/2010 - Statistics (Census of Population) Order 2010.

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 18th May, 2010.

I, BRIAN COWEN, Taoiseach, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 25(1) of the Statistics Act 1993 (No. 21 of 1993) and for the purpose of giving further effect to Regulation (EC) No. 763/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council, hereby order as follows:

1. This Order may be cited as the Statistics (Census of Population) Order 2010.

2. (1) In this Order—

“census night” means the period of time commencing at 9 p.m. on 10 April 2011 and ending at 7 a.m. on 11 April 2011;

“following morning” means the period of time commencing at 7:01 on 11 April 2011 and ending at noon on that day.

(2) A word or expression that is used in this Order and is also used in the Regulation (EC) No. 763/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council has, unless the contrary intention appears, the same meaning in this Order as it has in that Regulation.

3. Information required to be provided by this Order, the general nature of which is specified in Schedule 1—

(a) is prescribed as information required for the purposes of the census of population of the State to be conducted in the year 2011, and

(b) shall be provided in respect of the circumstances existing on census night or on the following morning, unless otherwise stated.

4. Subject to Article 5, the persons or classes of persons specified in Schedule 2 are prescribed as the persons or classes of persons by whom the relevant information referred to in Article 3 is required to be provided, which information shall be provided by the completion of forms and questionnaires prepared by the Director General of the Central Statistics Office in accordance with section 23 of the Statistics Act 1993 (No. 21 of 1993).

5. (1) A person to whom paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 applies is required to provide—

(a) in respect of a private household that is occupied by such person on census night or on the following morning, he or she not having been enumerated elsewhere on that night or morning, information, the general nature of which is specified in paragraph 1 of Schedule 1,

(b) in respect of each other person who is alive and in the State at 12 midnight on Sunday 10 April 2011 and who occupies that private household on census night or on the following morning, such other person or persons not having been enumerated elsewhere, information, the general nature of which is specified in paragraph 2 of Schedule 1,

(c) information as to whether any or all members of the private household were temporarily absent from the household on census night and the following morning and, where all members of the private household were so absent, in respect of each member of the household who was so absent, information, the general nature of which is specified in paragraph 4 of Schedule 1, and

(d) where some but not all members of the private household are temporarily absent from the private household on census night and the following morning, in respect of each person who is so absent, information, the general nature of which is specified in paragraph 3 of Schedule 1.

(2) A person to whom paragraph 2 or 3 of Schedule 2 applies is required to provide information, the general nature of which is specified in paragraph 5 of Schedule 1.

(3) A person to whom paragraph 4 of Schedule 2 applies is required to provide information, the general nature of which is specified in paragraph 2 of Schedule 1.

SCHEDULE 1

General nature of the information to be provided for the purpose of the census of population to be conducted in the year 2011.

1. In respect of housing characteristics and facilities of a private household:

(a) type of accommodation;

(b) age of building;

(c) whether accommodation is owned or rented;

(d) in the case of rented accommodation, amount of rent paid;

(e) number of rooms;

(f) type of fuel used by central heating;

(g) type of water supply;

(h) sewerage facilities;

(i) number of cars and vans;

(j) possession of a personal computer;

(k) access to the internet.

2. In respect of each person referred to in paragraphs (1)(b) and (3) of Article 5:

(a) first name, surname and sex;

(b) date of birth;

(c) place of birth;

(d) current usual residence;

(e) usual residence on 10 April 2010;

(f) whether such person has lived outside the State for a period of a year or more and, if so—

(i) country of last previous usual residence, and

(ii) year of last taking up residence in the State;

(g) nationality;

(h) ethnic or cultural background;

(i) religion;

(j) where such person is a woman, number of children born alive to her;

(k) whether a language other than English or Irish is spoken at home, and where it is, such language spoken and ability to speak English;

(l) general health, including any disabilities;

(m) usual means of travel to place of work, school or college, time of leaving home and time taken;

(n) whether such person provides regular, unpaid personal help to another person and, where so provided, the number of hours per week;

(o) in the case of a person aged 3 years or more, ability to speak the Irish language and if able, frequency of speaking Irish language;

(p) in the case of a person aged 15 years or more:

(i) marital status;

(ii) whether full-time education has ceased and where it has, age at which it ceased;

(iii) the highest level of education and training completed and field of study;

(iv) present principal economic status;

(q) in the case of a person aged 15 years or more who is employed, present employment status, present occupation, present employer’s business, name and address of place of work and where occupation is farmer, the area presently farmed;

(r) in the case of a person aged 15 years or more who is unemployed, previous employment status, previous occupation, previous employer’s business and where previous occupation was that of farmer, the area previously farmed;

(s) in the case of a person aged 15 years or more who is retired, previous employment status, previous occupation and where previous occupation was farmer, the area previously farmed;

(t) in the case of a student, name and address of school or college attended,

(u) in the case of a person in a private household, relationship to each other person resident in that household on census night or on the following morning, to the extent that the form permits.

3. In respect of each person referred to in Article 5(1)(d):

(a) first name, surname and sex;

(b) relationship to each other person resident in the private household on census night or on the following morning, to the extent that the form permits;

(c) date of birth;

(d) in the case of a person aged 15 years or more, marital status;

(e) length of absence from household;

(f) whether or not in the State;

(g) in the case of a student, whether he or she is away at school or college.

4. In respect of each person referred to in Article 5(1)(c):

(a) first name, surname and sex;

(b) the address or addresses at which each member of the household who was so absent resided on that night and morning.

5. In respect of a residential communal establishment referred to in paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 and a vessel referred to in paragraph 3 of Schedule 2:

(a) a description of the nature of the establishment concerned;

(b) the first names and surnames of the persons who were alive and in the State at midnight on Sunday 10 April 2011 and occupied that establishment on census night;

(c) confirmation in respect of each person so listed as to whether an individual form was issued to and collected from such person.

SCHEDULE 2

The persons, or classes of persons, by whom the relevant information specified in Schedule 1 is required to be provided.

1. The householder or any adult member of a private household.

2. The manager or other person in charge of a residential communal establishment such as a hospital, nursing home or children’s home, educational establishment, religious community, defence establishment, prison, shelter or refuge, hotel, boarding house, guest house, bed and breakfast, hostel or campsite or other residential communal establishment of any kind (excluding private households).

3. The master in charge or other person in charge of a vessel (other than a vessel comprising a private household) in any harbour, port, bay, creek, lake, river, canal or elsewhere in waters within the jurisdiction of the State.

4. Any other individual in respect of whom the information prescribed by Article 3 is not required by this Order to be provided by another person or is not provided by another person.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

12 May 2010.

BRIAN COWEN,

Taoiseach.