Census of Population Data

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 21 May 2019

Tuesday, 21 May 2019

Questions (99)

Billy Kelleher

Question:

99. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Taoiseach the number of persons that co-work or work from home weekly that have broadband access and are employed in companies based in the local authorities of each city (details supplied) in tabular form. [21327/19]

Written answers

Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach

The exact information that the Deputy has requested is not available.

The Census of Population provides information on the numbers of persons who reported working from home as well as the type of internet connection in the household. The CSO’s quarterly Labour Force Survey (LFS) collects information from those persons in employment relating to how frequently they work from home.

From the results of Census 2016, we can ascertain that 94,955 persons stated that they worked mainly from home. Table 1 below shows their type of internet connection for the 5 requested cities.

Table 1 – Home workers by internet access in Cities listed, 2016

	All Home workers	Of which, broadband internet access	Of which, internet access other than broadband	No internet access	Internet access not stated
State	94,955	72,622	9,482	10,590	2,261
Of which
Dublin City and suburbs	12,006	11,310	199	175	322
Cork City and suburbs	1,970	1,802	56	52	60
Limerick City and suburbs	816	726	37	36	17
Galway City and suburbs	948	845	31	28	44
Waterford City and suburbs	514	480	13	9	12

The most recent LFS results relate to Q1 2019. In Q1 2019 19.6% of persons in employment indicated that they either usually or sometimes work from home. Due to methodological and sample size constraints it is not possible to produce reliable city estimates from the LFS. However, estimates are available at the level of NUTS3 Regions.

Table 2 below presents data for Q1 2019 in respect of frequency of work from home at the requested NUTS3 regional level.

The NUTS3 West region includes Galway city, counties Galway, Mayo and Roscommon.

The NUTS3 Mid-West region includes Limerick city, counties Limerick, Clare and Tipperary.

The NUTS3 South-East region includes Waterford city, counties Waterford, Carlow, Kilkenny and Wexford.

The NUTS3 South-West region includes Cork city and counties Cork and Kerry.

The NUTS3 Dublin region includes Dublin city, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, Fingal and South Dublin.

Table 2 Percentage of persons aged 15 years and over in employment

(ILO) classified by requested NUTS 3 Region of employment and home working

-	%
NUTS 3 Region of employment and home working	Q1 2019
State
Person usually works at home	7.0
Person sometimes works at home	12.6
Person never works at home	80.3
Not stated	*
All persons	100.0
of which:
West
Person usually works at home	7.5
Person sometimes works at home	10.5
Person never works at home	81.8
Not stated	*
All persons	100.0
Mid-West
Person usually works at home	6.6
Person sometimes works at home	11.4
Person never works at home	82.0
All persons	100.0
South-East
Person usually works at home	8.0
Person sometimes works at home	12.7
Person never works at home	79.3
All persons	100.0
South-West
Person usually works at home	7.6
Person sometimes works at home	10.4
Person never works at home	81.6
Not stated	*
All persons	100.0
Dublin
Person usually works at home	5.7
Person sometimes works at home	17.0
Person never works at home	77.3
Not stated	*
All persons	100.0

Source: Labour Force Survey (LFS), Central Statistics Office, Ireland.*

Estimates for numbers of persons or averages where there are less than 30 persons in a cell are not produced as estimates are too small to be considered reliable.

Data may be subject to future revision.

Data may be subject to sampling or other survey errors, which are greater in respect of smaller values or estimates of change.

Reference period: January - March.