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Women and Men in Ireland CSO report

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Publisher: 
Stationery Office, Dublin, Ireland
Author: 
Central Statistics Office
Date published: 
5 May, 2009
Region: 
Republic of Ireland

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research
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Women and Men in Ireland CSO report
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Latest CSO figures confirm the need for older carers strategy 

Since 2003 the Social Partnership Agreement (2003-2005) facilitates the CSO to support a move towards evidence based policy-making.  As such the CSO has produced a series of key thematic social indicator reports structured around the nine equality grounds. This report is the fifth in that series and focuses on gender.

Previous CSO report figures predict a major increase in the number of older people in Ireland. According to their figures there will be between 1.3 and 1.4 million people in RoI aged 65+ by 2041, about 20-25% of the population. The number of people aged 80+ is expected to quadruple from 110,000 in 2006 to about 440,000 in 2041.
While in Northern Ireland population projects predict that between now and 2041 the number of 60-74 year olds will increase by more than 100,000 to 320,000, while the number aged 75+ is projected to rise by more than 150% to 279,000. The 600,000 people over the age of 60 will make up nearly 30% of the total population.
It illustrates that in 2007 there were 35,147 persons in receipt of caring related social welfare payments. This is a more than three-fold increase from the 10,196 recipients in 1997. Around four-fifths of recipients were women in 2007.  The largest number of women in receipt of caring related social welfare payments in 2007 were in the 25-49 age group. However, nearly half (14,014) of all females receiving caring related social welfare payments were 50+.
These statistics highlight the increasing dependency of the State on older female care providers and gives evidence based information on the need to strategise for care provision by older people both north and south of the border.
Other related findings include:
·         The proportion of men at risk of poverty in 2007, after pensions and social transfers, was 15% compared to 19% of women.
·         In 2008, 44% of men and 50% of women aged 20-69 in employment had no pension provision other than the State pension. In 2005, the corresponding figures were 42% and 49% respectively.
·         In 2008, 34% of men and 40% of women in employment had occupational pensions. The corresponding figures in 2005 were 38% of men and 43% of women. There was a large difference between men and women in the coverage of personal pensions in 2008, 18% of men had a personal pension compared with only 7% of women.
·         Ireland had the most gender balanced population in the EU in 2007, with 100 women per 100 men in the population. For older age groups the proportion of women in the population was higher with 80 men per 100 women in the 65 and over age group. At EU level there were 71 men per 100 women in the 65 and over age group.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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